Who is Susan Brubaker Knapp?

Hello, my name is Susan Brubaker Knapp. I am an artist who works in fabric and thread. I find great joy in creating works that draw people closer and invite them to savor color, texture and form. My art celebrates and documents the deep mysteries of the world that are to be experienced only by close inspection of the miraculous details of nature. Increasingly, my work explores environmental, political and social issues that affect our world.

While my core materials — cloth and thread — are those used in traditional quilting, I often employ substances such as acrylic fabric paints, dyes, Tyvek, Angelina fibers, and water-soluble wax pastels, to transform the cloth.

Most of my art is realistic/representational in style, and starts with original photographs of the subjects, or my ink drawings based on them. I use two primary techniques – wholecloth painting, and fused appliqué – and often heavily free-motion threadsketch the surface before quilting.

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