Hinke Schreuders – Humoring the Goddess

Yes Yes Yes. You knew it was coming.

How could I finish this magnificent year without highlighting Galleries from 2021?

Where did 2021 go, anyway?

There’s not much that gives me more joy than discovering and sharing unique, different, and spectacular artists. Every time I come across something new I can’t wait to share it with you.

I go back and wander through my galleries often — I am always amazed at the individual and different kinds of creativity that wait back there for me — and you — to explore.

So allow me a few minutes of showing off. Here are some of the highlights from the Gallery of 2021.

Carolynda MacDonald

The Mountains

Doug Adams

William Utermohlen

Aiko Tezuka

Unusual Flower Arrangements

Léa Roche

MAY YOU ALL HAVE A HAPPY, PROSPEROUS, AND VERY CREATIVE NEW YEAR!

Hinke Schreuders has been making small paintings or drawings on canvas with needle and thread since 2002. She draws on both 1950s advertising images of women and personal photographic material, attached them to linen, then added embroidery and designs that heightens the beauty of the photos.Her technique, embroidery, appears to be innocent, but her carefully constructed compositions evoke associations with more sinister undercurrents in a language that is prosaic and poetic at the same time. Ideas such as abstracted bubbles, flowers, and embroidery that resembles old-fashioned brocade drift in and out around the images.Schreuders art showcases real women behind the colors and patterns.With the added dimension of the surface embroidery, both the handiwork and the photo beneath become a new entity.Schreuders says she seeks to “subtly confuse notions of feminine vulnerability and reinforce the position of embroidery as an artistic medium.”