Come join us for an incredible showing of art in the month of March: “Metamorphosis” by Tilda Twigg and the mail art of Lopez Library Artist in Residence, Rachel Zable. There will be an art opening at 5 pm on Saturday, March 1 as part of First Saturday Art Walk where both artists will be hosting artists talks describing their work and process. We hope you can join us!
More about Matilda Twigg:
Biography
Hello! I’m Tilda Twigg. My home is Lopez, and my high school is Spring Street. You can find my art in Woodsia Handmade’s Fauna Line, the 2020 Lopez Island Farmers Market Poster, and the column Indian Island This Week in the Islands’ Sounder.
Metamorphosis
I’m seventeen. Metamorphosis captures my art’s evolution during my childhood in the San Juan Islands.
Part I: Observation as a Child
When I was little, I packed my bag with pencils and paper. I forged paths under salal jungles, searching for the fractal curling of fiddleheads or delicate furling of flicker wings. Art was my impulse, salve, and friend.
Part II: Art as Science
At Spring Street, my excellent teacher, Taylor Bruce, taught me tricks for rendering shape and space. I learned to express matter, bone, flesh, and skin. Her lessons illuminated the power of balance and unity.
Part III: Science as Observation
The three-spined stickleback, ghost shrimp, brittle star, and starry flounder were subjects in my articles for the Islands’ Sounder. I drew with an empirical eye, observing my specimens to understand the grain in shrimps’ shells and flex in flounders’ tails.
Part IV: Child as Art
The pictures for my current project, a picture book, integrate the color and context of my early art, the principles and process of my fine art, and the style and sentiment of my published art. I hope to capture the ephemeral wonder of childhood.