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May Gallery 2013 Artist Bertha Moore Presents Painted Fabrics

The exhibit runs from May 1 to June 4 at Enumclaw City Hall.

Enumclaw artist Bertha Moore’s artwork at Enumclaw City Hall Gallery 2013 creates a wonderful display of her creativity. Bertha Moore’s work is highly inventive. She combines quilting, sketching, painting, and other media to create Northwest scenes of her own back yard, tranquil beaches, a cabin silhouette, an ocean side cabin, and more.  In her colorful image of Caty’s Rainbow World we find truth and reality mixed with colors of the rainbow and an imaginary forest of birch. It’s a quilt, no, it’s a painting, no, not that either, it’s a combination of Bertha Moore’s imagination and a creative manipulation of material, thread, and paint.   

Bertha Moore, Artist’s Statement

“It seems like I have always been inspired by fabric with all its colors, designs, and images to create quilts. My main focus has been on large traditional quilt patterns.

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Recently I began painting in acrylics on canvas to expand my creative interests… it wasn’t long before I started experimenting with paint on my fabrics. I quickly found that my connection to fabric is so strong that the added benefit of being able to embellish it with paint piqued my interest to create pictorial art quilts.

As my quilting developed into creating art quilts, I am even more challenged to explore the process and to strive to create images that are unique and vibrant.

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My medium is fabric… my inspiration is fabric!”

Gallery 2013 is located in the Council Chambers at Enumclaw City Hall.  1339 Griffin Ave. Enumclaw, WA 98022.  Hours for the exhibition space are 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Enumclaw City Hall is closed on national holidays. The gallery is closed to the public on Tuesday of each week for municipal court proceedings.

Editor's Note: Information from the city of Enumclaw.


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