Category: Color

Jo Eaton, No Repeats Fiberworks, speaking on Color.

Today Water, Sand and Sunlight.

I love creating! Yarn, hats, pins, Boho scarves, notecards, nature collages, suncatchers…………… no need to go on, you already get the idea but then behind is a creative impulse driven by color and the love of nature.

Color and Nature! Living in Maine is a sensory experience on so many levels. Just yesterday I stood just ankle deep in the incoming tide at Old Orchard Beach watching the dazzling display of light reflecting off sand and water.

Just inches away were waves of ripples, light reflecting and the ripples of sand created by the waves, sometimes working together for patterns of light other times in cross hatched patterns.

Then when I think is won’t get any more amazing, a wave of lace rolls in.

So, rather, Soooooooo, this inspiration is from yesterday but the joy behind my love of color comes from a life in Maine, being out in the environment throughout my life, first playing with sisters and cousins regardless of the weather or time of day; sun, wind, rain, clouds, snow, fog, cold weather and dark of night — sometimes with a full moon, other times, here in rural Maine, so dark that you truly cannot see your hand in front of your face……

You get the idea, outside. Plenty of togetherness time and plenty of time for exploring a few special places nearby;

a tree house from the backboard of a basketball hoop somehow leveraged into a wide arms of a Pine branches

a circle of Cedars punctuated with Jack in the Pulpits

a fresh field of snow glistening in the new day surrounded by Balsam Firs with their deep green spills coated with a fresh new white blanket backed by a brilliant blue sky

freshly opened Daisies and Black Eyed Susans nodding along the dirt roads

gravel roads lined with the glowing Pearly Everlasting

stands of White Birch catching your eye as you travel by and distant mountains dusky blue on the horizon in the summer

and our dear Katahdin silver and white against that cerulean, blue sky of winter.

My website is www.norepeatsfiberworks.com currently showing my historic hats and soon to feature my Maine Landscape hats. Visit my website and write to me about how you interact with color.

Jo Eaton ©2024

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