一个美国女孩制作的葫芦艺术品(组图)

朱迪(Judy Richie)是一名来自美国德克萨斯州的女艺术家，
是德州葫芦协会著名的女会员,获得奖项无数.
她的葫芦作品大气,深沉,典雅,时尚.
成为许多美国人特别青睐并热衷收藏的葫芦艺术品。
朱迪(Judy Richie)从小就表现出了非同常人的艺术天分。
她的葫芦艺术是集雕刻，彩绘，镶嵌等多种工艺解构制作完成的,
并巧妙利用松针,草,羽毛,植物纤维,藤蔓,树叶等材料与葫芦本身结合.
每件葫芦作品都显得那么优雅漂亮,
这是我们习惯中不常见的葫芦艺术形式,
对中国的葫芦艺术创作很有借鉴意义。 

Judy Richie

Judy Richie is a native of Austin, Texas and has been active in art since an early age. While still in high school she was chosen to attend a summer art camp at the University of Texas with the intent to major in art. A minor detour of marriage, six children and moving to Colorado and later to Alaska to marry her present husband, Bob, interrupted that goal.

After moving near the small town of Lake City, Colorado, Judy painted and ran her own gallery and later owned and operated a bed and breakfast inn for eight years. She painted murals on some of the walls that two subsequent owners have chosen to leave intact. While in Colorado Judy attended several oil painting workshops. She also developed an abiding interest in the art and crafts of the Native American, especially those of the Southwest. While living in the small town of Valdez, Alaska, Judy became interested in gourd art and with the help of the Internet in obtaining supplies, books and articles from varied sources, taught herself the basics of working with gourds. She learned some of her basketry coiling techniques from Aleut and Eskimo women in Alaska.

Judy and her husband retired to Kerrville, Texas in the summer of 2002, where she has a studio and pursues her art a minimum of 30 hours a week. Since moving Kerrville she has expanded her repertoire of presentations and basketry. Judy's coiled basketry is unique in it's presentation and includes pine needles, raffia, various grasses, plant fibers, philodendron sheaths and feathers. Most of her baskets are sewn with either waxed linen or artificial sinew, but you'll find a few sewn with grasses. Discovering the use of gourds for sculptural figures has been a recent delight for Judy's gourd art. Most are Native American inspired. Several have won major awards.