Judy’s Innovative Gallery
“As an artist, as a plantsman, my work of many years has been about exploring fibers I can grow, honoring traditions, and developing a contemporary connection inside these interwoven passions. Lately, I have been inspired to bring the glowing centres of my pieces into poetry:”
it has taken many footsteps
naturally
to achieve this art of me.
the garden fills me up with dreams
consumes
the work of years
growing fibers, learning skills
creative
till one day
sculpting, instructing, weaving arts
became the heart of me.”
judy a. zugish 2009
Skeined Willow Pieces
Looking back, looking forward
this time of deep
connection with hand
skeined willow is the
most satisfying of 30
years
as I play with its
beauty and
possibilities, linger for
long hours in process
and savor the reality
of sunsets, the
knowledge of finite
time, limited editions,
singular friendships.
Breathe
Hand skeined white and buff
Whispers & Shouts
Skeined white willow and spruce root.
Moving Spirit
Hand skeined willow, peeled spruce root
Waves and Ripples
Hand skeined white, peeled cedar root
Daughter on the Mountaintop
Hand skeined willow
Toss the Moon
Hand skeined willow
Skins and Skeins Creelwork
Skeined willow & barks
New Designs in Willow Skeins
Hand skeined willow
Harmonics
Skeined willow
Textural Material Blending
Matching up dance partners is all about style and muscle.
when I combine,
and twine,
the musical rhythms
intrude
a sculpting dance
begins.
ABS & Obliques
Bamboo, cane, peeled spruce root
Roots Of Magic
Skeined willow, cedar bark, cedar root
in private collection
Emerging
Willow barks and willow skeins
in private collection
Bodywork
Skeined willow, 3 willow barks
in private collection
Willow Barks
most every year,
a long midsummer
dayze
smitten
in the willow patch
a delicious glee
overtakes me
down to the
ground,
peel and sigh,
possibilities to
come
fly in
by and by
Samantha Rose
Sculpted willow barks, copper strips, roots
in private collection
Celebration
Willow barks and twisted hazlenut
Fukushima Tsunami
2013 ANWG show winner
First in Most Creative category
Large sculptural form cultivated willow barks
A Woven Story / Grandmother’s Buttons Made Me Dance
When I was but a girl
settled beside the thrumming
stitch machine
Granny’s shiny tin box
stuffed with talking buttons
began to chatter in my hands
soon transfer to my feet
confusion energies, we would
dance
when I was but a girl
Grandmothers Buttons Made Me Dance
Willow barks, buttons, roots
in private collection
Grandmothers Buttons Made Me Dance
Side Detail
Grandmothers Buttons Made Me Dance
Inside Detail
Exploring Trees
Always seasonal,
always inspirational,
exploring forest trees
is exhilarating
work and play
harvest, condition,
and process
wait. touch the bark anew
nature gives rise to
design
Mother and Daughter Go Out
Ash splint and cedar bark
Gorge Wind
Wall hanging wild cherry bark, willow, copper
Talk of the Table
Willow barks and root
MOTHERS HOOD
Red and black cedar
in private collection
Dynamic Custom Event Wall Pieces
Occur
when mature plantings
call out for large
harvests.
like grapes, it claims by back,
and stimulates my brain.
overtakes days and weeks,
sunrise to set,
feverish
fresh
racing
design.
vertakesda
design
Intersection
Peeled willow, cedar, bamboo, barks and skeins
Dance of the In-Between
A fascination that began with branches
and grew to studies of roots and tradition;
progressed to a preoccupation with
elemental refinements.
from garden hazel, to peeled spruce root, to hand-skeined willow
each of these intense obsessions are in
my daypack, now 3 decades long,
and in this piece.
quite amazing to me,
a kind of chrysalis spinning grafted
the work, thru days and nights until the
light.
I might have been a spider working
in the web.
vertakesda
design
Dance of the In-Between
Hazlenut, spruce root, skeined willow
Woven Wall Panels
Designed to size requirements these pictured are 4 feet x 8 feet, rigid 24″ wide panels also very cool willows, ozier, hazel withes for vertical or horizontal use as freestanding screens or wall applications
Vertical Garden Screen
Horizontal Garden Screen
Windows to the Woodland, 2006 Judy Zugish
Conceived as transitional passage, a constructed woven footing transforms to an open weave canopy from orderly withes, the woodland vinery and forest finery mingle in curves of color, embrace an open sky invitaitons to explore natures’ windows, subtleties of bark and bud, curing rods in light and shadow Astonishing! watch as birds alight, swirling flickers of flight, join in harmony adding their song to the poetry of the pathway.
A Commission Work: Windows to the Woodland
For The Arboretum Foundation The key element in award-winning design NW Flower and Garden Show 2006
Custom Garden Arch
Judy weaving during onsite installation
