Gorgeous handmade paper fans by local Vermont artist Erika Lawlor Schmidt. These stunning pieces of art are meticulously crafted and ready to hang. Each is a one-of-a-kind, inspired by nature and made during pandemic lockdown. Her work is thoughtful, eclectic, and very relatable.
Artist’s Statement
"My work is shaped by the recognition and inquiry to cyclical tendencies, including the contemplation of life cycles: birth, death and rebirth or the possibility for reincarnation. I have been interested in this all my life.
My surroundings reveal all that exists in a constant state of flux and that the physical world including the body, all material things, trends, fashions, technologies, reputations, families and fortunes eventually change, die and fade away. While I recognize the reality of impermanence, I also sense the presence of a connective yet unseeable life force that moves, shapes and holds us together and that is revealed in elegant but mystifying ways through the physical world. I am interested in the expression of that idea.
I am interested in locating the imprint of time and place in the body and psyche where personal and shared experience coincide. Merged are symbolic elements that signify collective experience with parts that reflect the intimate and personal. This integration parts has the capacity to express simultaneously a number of meanings.
The work speaks to how form emerges from emptiness where things having weight contend with weightless things. The work speaks to the understanding of the interrelatedness of all things." -ELS
To learn more, visit her website http://erikalawlorschmidt.com
1) Blue Flower Fan
Three-part flat linocut print on mulberry paper
2) River Stone
Five-part flat monotype print on Rives BFK
3) Blue Green Abstract
Three-part flat monotype print on Rives BFK
4) Vermont Wood with Moth
Five-part flat linocut print on Rives BFK
5) Yellow Blue Flower
Five-part flat monotype print on handmade paper
6) River Stone II
Three-part flat monotype print on arches 88 paper
7) Vermont Wood
Three-part Relief print on kinwashi paper
8) Tangle in Yellow & Green
Large four-part relief print on kinwashi paper