A passionate artist from a young age, Linda Glowacki has worked in oils, watercolor, acrylics, pastel, conte crayon, pencil, and pen and ink; she has also dabbled in sculpting clay and carving wood.

     A few years ago, Linda acquired some purebred Shetland Sheep, and the resulting mounds of fine, naturally colored fibre from the first shearing led quickly to experiments with felting (and the acquisition of more fibre critters!). The depth and textures of the resulting hand-made felts were an inspiration: each felt was a highly individual 'canvas'. When enhanced with needle-felted images, the spirit as well as substance of each subject was captured with a vibrancy difficult to achieve on canvas alone. Each work of fibre art was a delight not only to the eye, but to the fingertips.

     Linda's primary strength as a fibre artist is her vivid imagination. Only particular commissioned pieces utilize photographs as a guide; the vast majority of her work originates in her mind and is translated directly to the felt without the benefit of a paper sketch. This allows the work to flow with the natural textures and colors of the hand-made felt canvas, and lends a truly unique vision to the work.

Linda Glowacki
Cloverleaf Art and Fibre.
Box 13, Grp 130, RR#1 Beausejour, MB R0E 0C0
Tel: 755-2373
E-mail: rglow@mts.net