Heather Talbot
Drawing and Textiles
Studio 406 1000 Parker St Vancouver
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Email: heathertalbot@protonmail.com
Artist Statement/BIO:
As my work has developed I have moved from black and white drawings, to thread drawings (embroidery on heat transfers) to needle felted wall sculptures. In each case, like their subjects, they are simple but paradoxically complex. The photorealism is a tool to draw the viewer in, calling for further observation and contemplation. For the me, the time spent making the work, attempting to depict the original form with such painstaking accuracy, is a kind of devotion; a sacrament to the beauty and wonder of life in all its fleeting forms.
I consider each piece of work I undertake to be an exploration into a more deep and full understanding of one aspect of the living web of life of which I am also a part. Fungi are so fascinating to me, not just because they are so varied and beautiful in form, but because they are the fruiting bodies of these vast, invisible webs that are essential to the healthy functioning of a forest and so exemplify notions of impermanence, inter-connectedness and inter-dependence so beautifully.
