Artist's Statement
E. Brooks Hinerman
E. Brooks Hinerman
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I enjoy merging my two favorite arts, art quilting and nature photography, into original art forms. They include using my photographs printed on fabric as patterns for my quilts, and using a photograph as an applique pattern, and thread painting them to enhance the patterns with beautiful detail and a three dimensional effect. They have been met with much enthusiasm, and the classes I teach on making them are very popular, often with wait lists. I love teaching, and it translates into wonderful feedback from my students. The class enables the students to use their own photos and other images as patterns, creating art quilts that are original and deeply personal. My eye for composition, color, design and detail comes directly from many years of close study of my images through the lens of my camera.
My art quilts have been juried into many exhibits since 2009, often into art exhibits that compete with other art forms. Exhibiting has been very successful, especially in exhibitions with nature-related themes.
One of my photographs was selected as a finalist in a Photography Contest that had over 12,000 entries worldwide, and has been published in the book "The Best of Photography 2012". My concentration has been in art quilting, and I hope to include submitting more images to photography competitions in the future.
Photography has been the stepping stone that allows me to merge my images with my love of quilting. I began quilting in 2005 using traditional block patterns, and have been developing styles of floral and landscape art quilting since then.
My love of nature photography began when I was a child. My family vacationed every fall in the northern Ontario bush, and I began my journey of capturing the beauty of the wild country on film. My father had beautiful gardens on our property in Ann Arbor, MI., where he hybridized rhododendron and azalea. In my late teens, I used my single lens reflex (SLR) camera and put together a slide showcase of his gardens, "My Father's Garden", which was very well received. It was then that I started to be drawn to floral and macro photography in a serious way.
I began taking nature photography courses in 1999 through the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, including several classes up and down the Rocky Mountain chain in following years. My nature photography was exhibited locally during that time, including the Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit.
In 2009, I put together the exhibit, “The Blooms of Matthaei”, using floral photos taken in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens as patterns for my art quilts. It was juried into several exhibits, culminating in an exhibit that hung for four months at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, through the “Gifts of Art” Program at the U of M Medical Center.
The current exhibit, "Blooms", includes many new images taken primarily in Southeast Michigan, and has been hugely successful from the beginning. One piece was included in the Showcase, "Handcrafted and Through the Lens: Nature Interpreted", 2012, and another piece is juried into the Showcase "Nature's Splendors: Farms, Gardens, and Woodlands", 2013, both at the Filoli Historical Mansion in Woodside, California. Another piece from the exhibit was awarded an Honorable Mention in the "Art and the Garden" Exhibit, 2011, in Traverse City, MI.
The newest exhibit, "Nature Interpreted in Fiber", will hang at "My Favorite Cafe" in Saline, MI.,
from January 1st through February 28th, 2014. Exhibit reception date to be determined.
I also enjoy teaching, and was a workshop leader at the Alcona Arts Retreat in 2013, held in Alcona County, NE Michigan. In addition to traveling, I teach locally at the Quilting Season in Saline, MI.
New art quilts and photographs are being added frequently, including recent landscape art quilts.
E. B. Hinerman
(734) 686-0448
Many thanks to the local botanical gardens that have helped provide so many beautiful images:The Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, MI, and Hidden Lake Gardens in Tipton, MI.
Photo by Denise Anderson
My art quilts have been juried into many exhibits since 2009, often into art exhibits that compete with other art forms. Exhibiting has been very successful, especially in exhibitions with nature-related themes.
One of my photographs was selected as a finalist in a Photography Contest that had over 12,000 entries worldwide, and has been published in the book "The Best of Photography 2012". My concentration has been in art quilting, and I hope to include submitting more images to photography competitions in the future.
Photography has been the stepping stone that allows me to merge my images with my love of quilting. I began quilting in 2005 using traditional block patterns, and have been developing styles of floral and landscape art quilting since then.
My love of nature photography began when I was a child. My family vacationed every fall in the northern Ontario bush, and I began my journey of capturing the beauty of the wild country on film. My father had beautiful gardens on our property in Ann Arbor, MI., where he hybridized rhododendron and azalea. In my late teens, I used my single lens reflex (SLR) camera and put together a slide showcase of his gardens, "My Father's Garden", which was very well received. It was then that I started to be drawn to floral and macro photography in a serious way.
I began taking nature photography courses in 1999 through the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, including several classes up and down the Rocky Mountain chain in following years. My nature photography was exhibited locally during that time, including the Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit.
In 2009, I put together the exhibit, “The Blooms of Matthaei”, using floral photos taken in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens as patterns for my art quilts. It was juried into several exhibits, culminating in an exhibit that hung for four months at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, through the “Gifts of Art” Program at the U of M Medical Center.
The current exhibit, "Blooms", includes many new images taken primarily in Southeast Michigan, and has been hugely successful from the beginning. One piece was included in the Showcase, "Handcrafted and Through the Lens: Nature Interpreted", 2012, and another piece is juried into the Showcase "Nature's Splendors: Farms, Gardens, and Woodlands", 2013, both at the Filoli Historical Mansion in Woodside, California. Another piece from the exhibit was awarded an Honorable Mention in the "Art and the Garden" Exhibit, 2011, in Traverse City, MI.
The newest exhibit, "Nature Interpreted in Fiber", will hang at "My Favorite Cafe" in Saline, MI.,
from January 1st through February 28th, 2014. Exhibit reception date to be determined.
I also enjoy teaching, and was a workshop leader at the Alcona Arts Retreat in 2013, held in Alcona County, NE Michigan. In addition to traveling, I teach locally at the Quilting Season in Saline, MI.
New art quilts and photographs are being added frequently, including recent landscape art quilts.
(734) 686-0448
bhinerman125@gmail.com
Saline, MI
Saline, MI
Many thanks to the local botanical gardens that have helped provide so many beautiful images:The Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, MI, and Hidden Lake Gardens in Tipton, MI.
Photo by Denise Anderson
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