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Anton Veenstra

"Faded Flower", Tapestry by Anton Veenstra




My 40 year passion has been in making textiles. I have a particular visual language and textiles is the vehicle of expression for me. It has visual interest, texture and lustre.     
Artist's statement:  Textile, because it is so everyday, has long been overlooked in importance in the art world. I think a reappraisal is overdue. My intention is to promote tapestry as a feisty medium for depicting reality and dream. As a precious material it also has great potential as an upholstering fabric, one of its traditional functions, and also as a component of wearable art.
     

M5 Bus Self Portrait, Tapestry Weaving by Anton Veenstra
H 30 cm, W 30 cm



Location:  Sydney, Australia
Social Media:  LinkedIn
Languages spoken:  English, French, German



"Beauty Past Change", Tapestry by Anton Veenstra









Tags:  visual, texture, lustre, portraiture, wefts, individuality, environmental, ethical, everyday, harmony, vitality

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“Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,- a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse”
-Henry David Thoreau

In our case, it would be the needle or other fiber tool. Drive it home! And, we all thank you for your words, left here to these good folks. Invoke your Muse!

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