DIANE HAMBURG

           Through my art, my hope is to pay tribute to the beauty, vastness and strength of Mother Nature.

An ongoing passion of mine is to start with white fabric, manipulate it, dye it, paint, stamp, print, discharge, and foil it.  And, then add commercially [printed fabrics to make a collage – realistic or abstract.  I am in the midst of taking black fabric and discharging (taking the color out).   Another recent passion is needle felting.  The freedom of taking fragments of different fabrics, rovings, yarns and punching the fibers together to make a unique fabric is childlike and exhilarating.  I enjoy using free motion machine embroidery and quilting to further my art along.  I might add hand embroidery, shells, buttons, yarns, and beads to finish the piece.