Roberta Ferguson: Artworks in Silk
Blue silk strip
Blue silk strip

Silk paints so differently than watercolors or other media. The fabric is sensuous, tactile, warm, yielding. The vibrant, intense colors of the paint on fabric charm, captivate you. And, then: all the different things to do with the finished products -- frame them as images, wear them with clothing, decorate tables, place settings, or walls.

Silk is above all an unpredictable medium. Every work is a new adventure, a delicate dance between an inner vision and the actual flow of paint on fabric, rather than a task to be achieved by an artful mastery of the materials.

At the center is faith: faith in God, and in beauty as a reflection of an invitation to joy, to be happy. Silk is a happy fabric. It is a fabric for spring, for flowers, for new and unexpected colors, new possibilities, new delights, and laughter.

Silk Irises. Silk paint on silk. 2004.