Play With Me - Paintings

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Free motion machine embroidery is a way of using a sewing machine to creatively build up texture, decoratively apply one surface to another, define areas... limitless possibilities using the lowly sewing thread. These metal framed panels have heavy plastic that I have cut open and then stitched, using a variety of fabrics and fiber art techniques to embellish.

Those initial pieces, when layered, ended up in dynamic, interactive and movable groupings on the wall, perpetually being rearranged into various configurations. Be like Vanna White from Wheel of Fortune, always the winner, never tired of the endless possibilities. Hang by L screws provided. Come in any number of colors and configurations, every one is a mini work of art, no two can ever be the same.

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Meet the Creator

Leisa Rich

ON, Canada

Wescover creator since 2018

Art Archaeologist and Experimentalist. I do original, exceptional, and one-of-a-kind, on-time.

Leisa Rich was born and raised in Canada. After decades living in the U.S., she moved back to Canada in the fall of 2020. Rich holds MFA & BFA degrees in Fiber and a BEd in Art.
Rich exhibits internationally, has work in many public collections including: Delta Airlines Inc., Emory Healthcare, Dallas Museum of Art, The Works: Atlanta, University of Texas-Pan American, University of North Texas and the Kamm Foundation, and in many private collections around the world.
Her work has been featured in several books, magazines, blogs, and on PBS.
Rich has 46 years of teaching experience in arts centers in the U.S. and Canada.
She has written for Fiber Art Now, Felt, Arts ATL, Burnaway, blogs and more, and published her first children’s book, Animal Alphabet Traveling Twisters, in 2015, and a series of How To art books about Fosshape, available on Blurb.
Rich teaches at arts centers including Arrowmont, Peters Valley, Cullowhee Mountain Arts, Snow Farm, Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and the Society for Contemporary Craft.
Rich sells her work online on her website www.monaleisa.com and www.saatchiart.com/leisar