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Sharron Eckert
Primary Medium Basketry
Secondary MediumFiber/Textile
Description of Work Long leaf pine needles are coiled and sewed with decorative stitches using thin raffia or waxed linen. This can be made as a frame around a mirror or can be shaped into a basket. Often decorative rings are embroidered with thin raffia.
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Email steckert@frontiernet.net
Website www.artguildfairfieldglade.net
Artist Statement
Artisan Statement
Sharron L. Eckert
Pine needles - - - natural, earthy, abundant, often overlooked or thought useless. I am delighted that a fiber so simple can be so valued.
During the creative process of working with pine needles, I am aware of their balmy aroma. After a time, it lessens so that only a faint memory remains of that once-soothing fragrance.
As the needles are placed side-by-side with others, forming a bundle, there seems to be a sociological lesson. A solitary needle, so fragile by itself, gains durability as it is placed side-by-side with others.
Working within this medium requires patience as carefully placed stitches must occur one-by-one countless times throughout the completion of the piece. I frequently confer with professional artisans of other mediums, seeking to relate their advice to my creation. My work continues to be guided by the challenging legacy of my master-teachers.
Although I begin a piece with a particular design in mind, I strive to be sensitive to the unique formation that occurs within that piece during the coiling process. Granted flexibility, the piece evolves into something unique and unrivaled to other pieces.
My mentors were Elisabeth McCutcheon, a fine pine needle worker: I spent instruction time with Elisabeth each week for over a year. I attended workshops with Judy Mallow who is a five-generation master of long leaf pine needles.
Sharron L. Eckert
email steckert@frontiernet.net
A seven-minute video is on Nat’l Public Television at least once a year
and is in the archives for easy viewing.
Go to www.tennesseecrossroads.org
Search name Sharron Eckert
This information is also on the artist’s business card.
Artisan Statement
Sharron L. Eckert
Pine needles - - - natural, earthy, abundant, often overlooked or thought useless. I am delighted that a fiber so simple can be so valued.
During the creative process of working with pine needles, I am aware of their balmy aroma. After a time, it lessens so that only a faint memory remains of that once-soothing fragrance.
As the needles are placed side-by-side with others, forming a bundle, there seems to be a sociological lesson. A solitary needle, so fragile by itself, gains durability as it is placed side-by-side with others.
Working within this medium requires patience as carefully placed stitches must occur one-by-one countless times throughout the completion of the piece. I frequently confer with professional artisans of other mediums, seeking to relate their advice to my creation. My work continues to be guided by the challenging legacy of my master-teachers.
Although I begin a piece with a particular design in mind, I strive to be sensitive to the unique formation that occurs within that piece during the coiling process. Granted flexibility, the piece evolves into something unique and unrivaled to other pieces.
My mentors were Elisabeth McCutcheon, a fine pine needle worker: I spent instruction time with Elisabeth each week for over a year. I attended workshops with Judy Mallow who is a five-generation master of long leaf pine needles.
Sharron L. Eckert
email steckert@frontiernet.net
A seven-minute video is on Nat’l Public Television at least once a year
and is in the archives for easy viewing.
Go to www.tennesseecrossroads.org
Search name Sharron Eckert
This information is also on the artist’s business card.
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