Chris Motley is a fiber artist based in San Francisco. She has shown in juried shows throughout the United States, including Metaphoric Fibers at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, Fantastic Fibers in 2010 and 2011 at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY, National Fiber Directions 2011 in Wichita, KS, the Hand weaver’s Guild of America Small Expressions 2011 show and Form & Fiber; A Contemporary Twist on Fiber Art at the Mystic Art Center’s show in Mystic, CT.

She has also shown at other shows in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. Armed with a life-time of technique and freed from any expectation of garments or patterns, she is free to develop knitting with filling in three dimensions.

Chris lives in San Francisco

ARTIST STATEMENT:

“My art is an exploration of texture, color and dimension, for which I use the infinite possibilities of hand knitting, with filling, to create sculptural forms. Recently I have added the knitting of wire to expand my technique. These works may reflect a mood, an emotion, an ideas or societal condition. Fiber is a wonderfully dynamic medium. Free from any notion of patterns but armed with a lifetime of technique, I let the work evolve as it will. The process of knitting is also instrumental as a driving force in my art.

From this meditative process, a design can emerge as I knit; I push the boundaries of the stitches to translate an image or concept from my imagination or the real world into fiber. In most of my current sculptural projects I develop the final works from smaller knit and filled pieces. As life itself develops from phases and segments of time, these works emerge as I knit and explore.”

Please note that each bundle is individually crafted and is unique. Bundle shipped may vary slightly from pictured.

Small is approx. 3” x 2.5” x 2”

Medium is approx. 4” x 3” x 2”

Large is approx. 5” x 4” 3”

X Large is approx. 6” x 5” x 4”