Lotta Helleberg
Disintegrated leaves and faded flowers are examples of the ordinary natural beauty around us. Weeds, invasive vines, and rejected bouquets, become a symbol of how we interact with plant life and with each other. They bring attention to cycles of rejuvenation, maturity, and decay, while reminding us of the fragility, as well as resilience, of the natural world and the humans who inhabit it.
Lotta Helleberg is a Swedish-born artist based in Charlottesville. For more than a decade, Helleberg has experimented with textile printmaking, currently focusing on botanical contact printing, relief processes, and local plant-based dyes and pigments to render works that both document and celebrate her immediate surroundings. The resulting impressions are incorporated into art quilts, textile collages, artist books, and other objects. Her unconventional wall and book works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States as well as abroad, including the Festival of Quilts in the United Kingdom and Kyoto Shibori Museum in Japan.
Studio 9
Central region
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