Donna Polos

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4652 Victory Street

Burnaby, BC,

Fax 604-439-9282

Artist Statement

Twelve years ago I was a frustrated beginning watercolour painter. I would practice... practice... practice... and see little growth. To ease the frustration, I would quilt. I had been a quiltmaker for fifteen years and had worked with textiles in many forms since childhood. Fabric was a medium I was comfortable with.

As time passed, I started to ask a lot of "what ifs". What if I applied watercolour technique to cloth? Surprising, through experimentation, I discovered much of the technique worked. I played with dye painting, surface design, fabric painting, stenciling, heliographic painting, resists, negative painting, underpainting, glazing, paint pouring, monoprinting on sandpaper, chalk pastels and recently metallic threads and yarns sewn on the surface.

As my fabric painting has developed, so has my watercolour on paper. I usually paint fabric and paper simultaneously side by side. As I have developed as an artist, my two mediums have become one.

Fall of '98
 41″x 26″ - © 1999 - $800.00 Cdn

In 1998, it was a very dry fall. As a result we had very intense reds and yellows in the trees. I had to paint them. Technique - fabric painted, hand embroidered and hand quilted.

 

On the Road to Cherryville 
31″ x 39″- © 2000 - $1,000.00 Cdn

This was a barn on the road to Cherryville. We were on a summer holiday. Technique - fabric painted, hand embroidered and hand quilted.

 

Oak Leaves 
   29” x 37” - © 2003 - $1,100.00 Cdn 

This is the twelfth in a series of leaves I have painted. Technique - fabric paint, metallic paint, metallic thread, hand embroidery and hand quilting.
 

Hollyhock
21” x 28” - © 2003 - $500.00 Cdn

I painted a watercolour of a hollyhock. I thought I would also paint it on fabric. Technique - fabric paint, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, metallic threads, tulle, and hand quilting.