Sag Harbor, NY

This is an interpretation of the North Pole Grid, an artwork made of gold and crystals placed on the magnetic north pole by William Lee Rand in 1992.  A photo of the actual grid was printed on cotton and overpainted with gold.  The 12 sequins symbolize the 12 major world religions and the 12 crystals and 12 religions symbols in the original grid.  The piece was created in the spirit of world harmony, peace and unity and honoring reiki energy and healing techniques.  The North Pole grid was created to facilitate world peace and harmony.  For more information on the North Pole grid contact reiki.org.

Title: Golden Spiral
Media: Fiberart, printmaking

Background consists of torn strips of commercial fabrics layered and quilted.  Center gold spiral was printed using gold acrylic paint on cotton using an original hand-carved stamp; the edges are fringed.  Hand beaded with glass seed beads along edges.

Linda Edkins Wyatt has been immersed in fiber since she was very young.  She started hand sewing, crocheting, making dolls and embroidering doll clothes as soon as she could hold a needle and moved on to sewing and embroidering her own clothes at about age 10.

Linda discovered textile design while a student at SUNY Oneonta, majoring in education and minoring in art.  After graduating from Oneonta, she spent a year at FIT studying commercial textile design.  Linda worked as a print sylist for nine years and won two of the American Printed Fabric Council’s Tommy Awards in children’s wear.  For the past 15 years, she has worked as a layout and graphic designer in the newspaper business.

Linda’s textile work has been featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors and Quilting Arts magazines, the British feminist art journal n. paradoxa, and the book 1,000 Artist Journal Pages.  Her paper quilt was used in the Make It University 2007 displays in Chicago and Houston.  Recent shows including Linda’s work include the 2007 Houston Journal Quilt Exhibit and Quiltart’s “Remember Me” and “Flower Power Challenges.”  Cloth, Paper, Scissors used a necklace constructed from Linda’s tyvek beads in their on-line newsletter, Embellishments, issue 44.  A series of nine mixed-media works along with 2,500 words will be included in a new art book due out from Rockport Press in summer of 2008.  Linda has recently joined Artists in Cellophane’s Art-o-mat project.

Linda lives in Sag Harbor, NY, with her husband Hugh, daughter Amanda, and pooch Cononut.  She does not yet have a website, but you can email her at: Edzellinni@aol.com.