Hollis Chatelain - Textile Artist

Many people ask me what I am working on, where my work is being exhibited and how I am spending my time. This is a new addition to the website that will be updated monthly with the latest things that are happening in my life.

May in North Carolina was just beautiful this year. We have had a cool spring with a nice amount of both sun and rain. Let’s hope it continues through the summer.

This quilt can belong to you!!! Anyone can bid. Let’s see how much we can contribute to Alzheimer’s research. Please bid on # 2577, titled “Three Gifts”!! Click here to see it.

I have just finished painting the second part of the Baobab Forest triptych. This part will be green transitioning into pink towards the end. Click here to see it.

Before I can start quilting it, I need to paint the last part of the triptych which will start out pink and transition into grays. The rainforest part measures 8’ W x 2’H. Baobab Forest measures approximately 9’W x 2’ H and the third part will measure 4’W x 2’H. This triptych will be included in my exhibit “Imagine Hope” www.imagine-hope.com .

“The Gift” will be shown at the Northwest Quilters 34th Annual "A Festival of Quilts" in Portland, Oregon June 5^th-8^th. I will also be showing the pieces from my exhibit “Antiques to Abstracts” along with “Hope for Our World” and “Exodus” when I speak there June 7^th. Contact Janice Jones for more information and tickets. Exodus will then travel to San Diego where it will be shown in the exhibit “Figuratively Speaking” at the Visions Art Quilt Gallery from August 9^th – October 5^th, 2008. Click here for more information .

The exhibit “Creative Force: Masters”, which was curated by Martha Sielman, will be shown at the International Quilt Show in October 2008, then will travel to Chicago and California. The works of forty artists from the book "Masters: Art Quilts" will be shown in this exhibit. I will be represented by “Blue Men” .

The book "Masters: Art Quilts" is now available. Forty artists were selected worldwide and are presented in an 8 page mini-retrospective, showing approximately 10 artworks from each person.
The book is available on the SAQA website and on Amazon.com

I will not be teaching again until September when I teach at Durham Orange Quilters right here in my area. Click here for more information.

In the meantime I am going into my studio to work on the pieces that will go into my exhibit “Imagine Hope” that will be complete in September 2009.

Last month I showed some photos of a few sculptures from my garden and had lots of comments from you. So I have decided to show a few more. The yellow door is the entrance to my studio. The big tree trunk came from Billings, Montana. It had been burned out during a forest fire. The St. Francis statue was made by Tinka Jordy who lives in our area. She also made the tall torch. We have many of her sculptures in our garden. The pink abstract flamingo is one of our metal junk yard pieces and the pottery sculpture in the background was made for me when I was a teenager. The "Western Buddha" was made by Sigrid Herr. We’ve planted thyme all around her and sage to her sides (don’t we all want to have more time and be more sagacious).

Please check out my new website www.imagine-hope.com . Within the next couple of months we will be adding much more detail about my exhibit “Imagine Hope”. This exhibit will have textile pieces speaking about worldwide issues and black & white photographs from prominent photographers dealing with the same subjects.

We have giclee prints of “Exodus”, “Hope For Our World” and "The Gift", the two winning quilts in Houston in 2007. There are also prints available of “The Grandfather”, “Sahel”, “Ecuadorian Girls”, “Captured”, “Precious Water”, “Fatima’s Son”, “School: It’s Never Too Late to Learn”, “Nature’s Gift”, “Blue Men”, “Burkinabe Mother” and “Untold Secrets", and they are all beautiful. Click here to check out all the prints and to learn more about giclee prints.

All of the threads that I designed for Superior Threads are for sale on the website. Living Colors and Nature Colors are sold in packs of 25 because I have found that quilters use threads in a more unique and exciting way when they have the opportunity to “audition” a number of different colors (just like we do with fabrics) before making their final choices. Click here

We have a secure system where you can order thread, fabric, prints and my artwork directly on line and pay by credit card or Pay Pal.