How does an artist get started making art? Where do they get their inspiration? What kind of weird things do they use to make
art? And where do they create?
Get the answers and see inside all 41 artists’ studios
during the 2015 Washington County Open Studios tour October 17 and 18 from 11am
to 5pm.
Here’s a quick interview with one of this year’s new
artists, Evelyn Fritz.
What
is unique about your studio set up?
“My studio is in my home
and it is divided into two areas. The main studio and my little encaustic
corner, which overlooks my patio.”
When
you begin your work, what inspires you and/or gets you going?
“I love to experiment so
any new tool or method that helps me to create texture sets me into a creative
mood.”
How
did you find your way to art?
"For as long as I can remember, I have been
interested in art. It has been a long journey and life does
sometimes get in the way. There was a period that I didn't work at it at
all because of other demands. I was happy to get back into it.”
What
weird, different material or technique do you use and does that inspires you?
“I use a lot of texture
in my work and the newest thing that I have found to create that is tyvek
.”
When
people come to your studio, what will they see you doing …what part of your
process?
“I will be showing how I
use the various things that I use to create that create texture.
When people come to
my studio I will be working with the tools that I use in my process.
This could be how I prepare tyvek, working with stamps which I make
myself. (There are so many ways to make stamps that that could be a
demonstration in itself. How to do a transfer. Why some
of these will work with one medium and not the other. and how I
actually apply my mediums to the substrate.”
Meet Evelyn and all the other 40 artists October 17 and
18 from 11am to 5pm during the Washington County Open Studios tour. Get a FREE tour map and information online at
www.washcoart.org
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