Textile collage by Valentina Maximova
Born in the village of Kostyanka of Arkhangelsk region, Valentina Nikolaevna Maximova now lives in the old Russian city of Uglich. In 1975, she graduated from Yaroslavl art college. Since 1982 she has participated in provincial, regional, national, and international art exhibitions. She is a member of the Union of artists of Russia. Valentina Maximova’s artworks are in private collections in Russia, Germany and France. Her textile collage, little tricks which artist accumulates, and opens unexpected visual possibilities of natural fabrics. “Palette” of colors and textures here is extremely varied. The author favorite themes – landscapes with snow and water, still lifes of flowers and vases, and portraits.

From Norwich John Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Arts:
Patchwork, needlework made of assorted small pieces of fabric sewn together at the edges to form a kind of cloth mosaic. This simple and economical method of producing patterned textiles is both ancient and wide-spread. During the Renaissance, using silks and velvet as its raw materials, it was a sumptuous element in ecclesiastical and secular decoration. The technique is more generally associated with folk art, particularly (since the 18th century) in the production of patchwork quilts, their cheerful, colorful patterns usually formed from innumerable regularly shaped scraps of printed cotton. Patchwork of irregular shapes is sometimes called crazy patchwork.

Textile collage by Valentina Maximova

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