Pamela Druhen
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Pamela Druhen has been working in fabric and thread creating representational landscapes and florals since 1996. Normally considered fiber art, Pamela's "Threadscapes" are paintings in every sense of the word. She uses the fiber medium to explore the relationships between light, depth, color and texture in the natural world. The crisp definition of the seasons is the backdrop for her work. As the viewer, you are standing on the edge of each piece, ready to step in. Pamela invites the viewer right into the work.
Quilting is used as a design element to enhance the texture, movement and depth of each piece. Newer works incorporate silk or procion dyes as paint on silk or cotton to create the image which is then embroidered with rayon threadwork and highly detailed quilting. "Among the most notable pieces exhibited are Pamela Druhen's intricate quilted landscapes..."(Anne Galloway, Vermont Sunday Magazine, October 2006). "Druhen's "Valley View" is a panoramic view of a Green Mountain valley transformed by winter. She utilizes a range of techniques to render a lively, white-on-white picture plane with glistening details. Druhen's "Going Home" is a more intricate image - a homestead enclosed by a canopy of trees. Its broad border encompasses waves of yellow, sienna and green that capture autumnal light filtering through skillfully embroidered trees." (Mark Awodey, Seven Days, October 4-11, 2006)
Pamela's work has been exhibited on the national and international level and in competitions since 2001. An emerging artist, she continues to spend most of her time in the studio creating new work. When not in the studio she can be found teaching, lecturing, exhibiting and promoting her work or traveling with her husband Claude, photographing new vistas to share with us.
The Druhen's make their home in Vermont.
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2009 - "Images" Lowell Quilt Festival - "Valley View" 1st Place Small
Non-Traditional and Viewer's Choice
Best Little Quilt Show in Vermont, Jamaica, VT - Group Show
2008 - Henry Sheldon Museum "Sentinels" month of September
World Quilt Competition (Mancuso Bros.) 3rd Place Innovative
"Valley View"
2007 - Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT "Contemporary Vermont Quilt
Artists" (May through September)
"Celebrate Spring" Chicago, IL - Finalist
A Notion To Quilt, Shelburne Falls, MA Exhibit August 24 - 46
Art In The Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT Sept 24 - Oct 12 Best Mixed
Media
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX Finalist "Valley View" and
"Transformation" Special Exhibit - "Iris On The Inside"
2006 - Vermont Quilt Festival "Valley View" 3rd Place and Best Landscape
"Full Autumn" 3rd Place Miniature
Special Exhibit - Stars of Vermont (9 pieces)
Deerfield Fall Craft Fair (MA) Featured Artist - Retrospective:
"Threadscapes - The First Decade"
2005 - Art In The Round Barn
2004 - Art In The Round Barn
2003 - "The Gathering" East Coast Quilter's Guild "After The Storm"
Director's Choice
AQS International Quilt Show, Finalist "Towards The Light"
2002 - New York Quilts 1st Place & Judge's Choice "Towards The Light"
2cd Place "Winter In The Gap" Viewer's Choice "Towards The
Light"
Vermont Quilt Festival - First Place, Governor's Award and Best
Threadpainting "Towards The Light"
International Quilt Festival - Houston, TX Finalist
Art In The Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT Viewer's Choice "Winter In
The Gap"
2001 - Vermont Quilt Festival 1st Place and Best Representative Landscape
"Winter In The Gap"
Publications
2009 - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, August-September, "Valley View"
2008 - Fabric Trends Magazine, Winter, "Valley View" (Parting Shot)
2003 - AQS Show Catalogue - "Towards The Light"
2002 - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, December, "Towards The Light"
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