Christine Peloquin
Peloquin’s French Canadian ancestors immigrated to Rhode Island to work in the textile mills during the Industrial Revolution.
Not surprisingly, through her family history and training, she has found a personal intimacy with the use of fabrics and paper. Although she considers herself a painter more than a seamstress or a quilter, Peloquin begins all the paintings with fabric and paper collage, arranged, sewn and adhered to wood panels with an almost quilt-like appearance. They consist of antique cloth (burlap and cotton bags, linen towels and tablecloths), contemporary fabrics (cottons, velvets and polyesters) and a variety of papers and 2D found objects.
From this point, her work splits into two series.
Her series of abstracts are collages of materials transformed and embellished using fiber, tints and glazes. Through the design, colors and composition, Peloquin says her intention is to convey the poetry of painting with the use of fiber in a feminine and tactile tone.
Her paintings, on the other hand, are renderings of faces and figures in which she uses acrylics and charcoal to capture emotions, moods and ideas. Peloquin states her intention is to create a visual record of personal experiences in a more literal fashion than the abstracts. She sees the collaged and embellished surface as adding a visual static and dimension to the composition. The joy in this process is from the instinctual choices of rendering and harmonizing what she will cover up and what she will leave to be revealed.
Not surprisingly, through her family history and training, she has found a personal intimacy with the use of fabrics and paper. Although she considers herself a painter more than a seamstress or a quilter, Peloquin begins all the paintings with fabric and paper collage, arranged, sewn and adhered to wood panels with an almost quilt-like appearance. They consist of antique cloth (burlap and cotton bags, linen towels and tablecloths), contemporary fabrics (cottons, velvets and polyesters) and a variety of papers and 2D found objects.
From this point, her work splits into two series.
Her series of abstracts are collages of materials transformed and embellished using fiber, tints and glazes. Through the design, colors and composition, Peloquin says her intention is to convey the poetry of painting with the use of fiber in a feminine and tactile tone.
Her paintings, on the other hand, are renderings of faces and figures in which she uses acrylics and charcoal to capture emotions, moods and ideas. Peloquin states her intention is to create a visual record of personal experiences in a more literal fashion than the abstracts. She sees the collaged and embellished surface as adding a visual static and dimension to the composition. The joy in this process is from the instinctual choices of rendering and harmonizing what she will cover up and what she will leave to be revealed.
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