Exhibitor #2 (Eliza Stanford)

Title: Walking the Black Dog

Medium: Rug Hooking

Dimensions: 20″ x 30″

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Artist Statement:
This piece is inspired by the visual contrast of a black dog in a white landscape. With a long winter and a dog that requires a lot of exercise ideally in a large space, opportunities for photographing the black dog are numerous. From the photographs come inspiration for rug hooking and combining elements of more than one image, finding texture and colour in the snow that is not usually visible to the naked eye and turning the experience into a piece of rug hooking. With this medium I can spend a lot of time nurturing the image, making design changes along the way and loving the aesthetics of the land with every loop.