OASIS Exhibit Has Artists Collaborate On Each Piece
June 11, 2018
By SHELBY MERTENS
Daily News-Record 6/8/18
HARRISONBURG — Woodworker Roger Chandler and Janet Lee Wright, a member of the Shenandoah Valley Watercolors Society, wanted to create a piece of art that captured the nature of the Shenandoah Valley. The result of their collaboration was a vase made from an ash tree painted with leaves from plants that are native to the Valley.
“We had the concept of taking a wood that is indigenous to the Shenandoah Valley and making a form that would be something for display … and also embellish it with some leaves painted on it in autumn colors from trees and plants that are indigenous to the Shenandoah Valley,”
Chandler said. “She has maple leaves, pine, hickory and different varieties of oak [leaves].”
The vase, aptly named “Autumn Splendor,” is one of the pieces on display in OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit, “Collaboration.”
“The concept was to get OASIS artists working together, either by doing one collaborative piece or mirroring each other,” said OASIS artist Barbara Camph. “It’s the first time we’ve had a show like that.”
The exhibit showcases eight collaborations. The artists were given the freedom to pick who they wanted to work with, and jewelry designer Jilly Weigel knew she wanted to partner with Eda Duff, who makes felt hats.
“I particularly admire these hats,” Weigel said. “I asked her if I could collaborate with her and make a hat band for it that would be fun.”
Weigel used a ribbon of Indian saree silk to wrap around Duff’s purple felt hat. Weigel added a copper chain and wired in an assortment of beads.
“I have different freshwater pearl, mother of pearl, lamp work glass beads and some Chinese cloisonne beads,” she said.
Weigel, who is mostly self-taught, focuses primarily on wire wrapping semiprecious stones with sterling silver, copper and bronze wires, and also does some lapidary work.
The design of her hat band was inspired by the television show “Downton Abbey.”
“It’s just a fun little hat,” Weigel said.
The exhibit is the brainchild of Ellen Fairchild-Flugel, who makes gold and silver jewelry, as well as sculptures made of copper and other metals.
“It opens up avenues of creativity that maybe you wouldn’t stick in normally, “she said. Fairchild-Flugel participated in several collaborations with different artists. She made pins for scarves made by Joanna Gray. The scarves are made with all-natural fibers and dyes, and Gray uses plants from her own backyard for the design.
“I extract the color from the plants by a process called eco-print. The leaves and flowers print directly on the fabric by either steaming or boiling the fabric and plant matter in a dye bath,”
Gray wrote in her OASIS artist bio.
Fairchild-Flugel also made copper handles for potter Kathy Kavanagh’s clay-fired wall pockets, which feature rabbits on them.
Camph collaborated with Fairchild- Flugel for “Fantasy and Leaves,” a mixed-media piece that incorporates Camph’s signature stained glass and Fairchild-Flugel’s copper. For another piece, called “Blue Morphos and Their Friend,” Camph made stained glass butterflies that are connected with copper.
“The pieces with Ellen were just fun to do because she just gives me something and says, ‘Go for it,’” Camph said. “So, in this case, she had given me a pile of lots of little things, and I found that and I said, ‘That’s surely a butterfly,’ so, it was fun to add to that and make them dance.”
Camph also made pieces that are meant to mirror another artist’s work. Deb Booth, of Different Light Studio, makes artwork using a technique called quilling, which is “an art involving colored strips of paper formed into intricate or arcing designs, glued onto a background.” Camph emulated three of Booth’s quilling pieces on stained glass.
One piece Booth describes as “a dotted abstract with the suggestion of curved roads,” the second is a cardinal, and the third is a “gorgeous, circular original black, white, gray and red abstract.”
“It was fun to make,” Camph said. “I think it gets the same feeling [as Booth’s work].”
In another collaboration, photographer Stewart Mason handed over photos of butterflies to painter Jewel Yoder Hertzler, who used the images to create encaustic paintings, which use melted beeswax and pigment layered and fused together with a heat gun. The result gives the painting a luminous and texturized look.
“It’s really interesting just to see what people come up with,” Fairchild- Flugel said.
The exhibit is on display in the newly renovated second floor gallery space until June 30. The gallery is located at 103 S. Main St. in downtown Harrisonburg.
OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit showcases eight collaborations between
artists who either created a new piece together or created a piece to mirror another artist’s work.
Jewelry designer Jilly Weigel models a hat she helped create for OASIS Fine Art &
Craft Gallery’s “Collaboration” exhibit.
For OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit, “Collaboration,” woodworker
Roger Chandler made a vase from a native tree, and watercolorist Janet Lee Wright
painted flowers around it that are native to the Valley.
Daily News-Record 6/8/18
HARRISONBURG — Woodworker Roger Chandler and Janet Lee Wright, a member of the Shenandoah Valley Watercolors Society, wanted to create a piece of art that captured the nature of the Shenandoah Valley. The result of their collaboration was a vase made from an ash tree painted with leaves from plants that are native to the Valley.
“We had the concept of taking a wood that is indigenous to the Shenandoah Valley and making a form that would be something for display … and also embellish it with some leaves painted on it in autumn colors from trees and plants that are indigenous to the Shenandoah Valley,”
Chandler said. “She has maple leaves, pine, hickory and different varieties of oak [leaves].”
The vase, aptly named “Autumn Splendor,” is one of the pieces on display in OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit, “Collaboration.”
“The concept was to get OASIS artists working together, either by doing one collaborative piece or mirroring each other,” said OASIS artist Barbara Camph. “It’s the first time we’ve had a show like that.”
The exhibit showcases eight collaborations. The artists were given the freedom to pick who they wanted to work with, and jewelry designer Jilly Weigel knew she wanted to partner with Eda Duff, who makes felt hats.
“I particularly admire these hats,” Weigel said. “I asked her if I could collaborate with her and make a hat band for it that would be fun.”
Weigel used a ribbon of Indian saree silk to wrap around Duff’s purple felt hat. Weigel added a copper chain and wired in an assortment of beads.
“I have different freshwater pearl, mother of pearl, lamp work glass beads and some Chinese cloisonne beads,” she said.
Weigel, who is mostly self-taught, focuses primarily on wire wrapping semiprecious stones with sterling silver, copper and bronze wires, and also does some lapidary work.
The design of her hat band was inspired by the television show “Downton Abbey.”
“It’s just a fun little hat,” Weigel said.
The exhibit is the brainchild of Ellen Fairchild-Flugel, who makes gold and silver jewelry, as well as sculptures made of copper and other metals.
“It opens up avenues of creativity that maybe you wouldn’t stick in normally, “she said. Fairchild-Flugel participated in several collaborations with different artists. She made pins for scarves made by Joanna Gray. The scarves are made with all-natural fibers and dyes, and Gray uses plants from her own backyard for the design.
“I extract the color from the plants by a process called eco-print. The leaves and flowers print directly on the fabric by either steaming or boiling the fabric and plant matter in a dye bath,”
Gray wrote in her OASIS artist bio.
Fairchild-Flugel also made copper handles for potter Kathy Kavanagh’s clay-fired wall pockets, which feature rabbits on them.
Camph collaborated with Fairchild- Flugel for “Fantasy and Leaves,” a mixed-media piece that incorporates Camph’s signature stained glass and Fairchild-Flugel’s copper. For another piece, called “Blue Morphos and Their Friend,” Camph made stained glass butterflies that are connected with copper.
“The pieces with Ellen were just fun to do because she just gives me something and says, ‘Go for it,’” Camph said. “So, in this case, she had given me a pile of lots of little things, and I found that and I said, ‘That’s surely a butterfly,’ so, it was fun to add to that and make them dance.”
Camph also made pieces that are meant to mirror another artist’s work. Deb Booth, of Different Light Studio, makes artwork using a technique called quilling, which is “an art involving colored strips of paper formed into intricate or arcing designs, glued onto a background.” Camph emulated three of Booth’s quilling pieces on stained glass.
One piece Booth describes as “a dotted abstract with the suggestion of curved roads,” the second is a cardinal, and the third is a “gorgeous, circular original black, white, gray and red abstract.”
“It was fun to make,” Camph said. “I think it gets the same feeling [as Booth’s work].”
In another collaboration, photographer Stewart Mason handed over photos of butterflies to painter Jewel Yoder Hertzler, who used the images to create encaustic paintings, which use melted beeswax and pigment layered and fused together with a heat gun. The result gives the painting a luminous and texturized look.
“It’s really interesting just to see what people come up with,” Fairchild- Flugel said.
The exhibit is on display in the newly renovated second floor gallery space until June 30. The gallery is located at 103 S. Main St. in downtown Harrisonburg.
OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit showcases eight collaborations between
artists who either created a new piece together or created a piece to mirror another artist’s work.
Jewelry designer Jilly Weigel models a hat she helped create for OASIS Fine Art &
Craft Gallery’s “Collaboration” exhibit.
For OASIS Fine Art & Craft Gallery’s June exhibit, “Collaboration,” woodworker
Roger Chandler made a vase from a native tree, and watercolorist Janet Lee Wright
painted flowers around it that are native to the Valley.
