Pattie Palmer-Baker
Pattie Palmer-Baker’s art is a partnership of poetry and the book arts of calligraphy and paste paper. Paste paper is an ancient decorated paper technique wherein the artist paints color mixed with artist-made paste on wet paper. Before the paint/paste dries, the artist uses texture-making tools to form designs on the surface. Pattie creates specific shapes and images to illustrate the poem she has in mind. Once dried, Pattie cuts out the images and assembles them in a collage with the poem penned around the edges of the final artwork.
Since poetry inspires the image and appears somewhere in the finished collage, it could be said that words are her first love. Whether she is writing a poem or creating an artwork springing from her poetry, she aims to translate the inner world into media that will both move the viewer and/or reader and clarify her meaning.
updated 5/2019
