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Sue Reno

Email: Sue Reno
Website: http://www.suereno.com

Sue Reno is a fiber artist who draws inspiration from her surroundings in beautiful Lancaster County, PA. Her current work focuses on landscape images and botanical subjects, using plants from her extensive organic garden and from the fringes of cultivation. She employs surface design techniques including cyanotypes, heliographic prints, and image transfers as the basis for works that also incorporate unusual and hand painted fabrics, hand and machine stitching, and beadwork. Her award winning work has been juried into numerous national and international exhibits and shows. She has been featured in an episode of “Simply Quilts”, shown on HGTV, and in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine.

Fireball
50" h x 76" w
2008
$7,900

Artist's Statement: I grow this variety of hibiscus that sports cutleaf foliage and enormous bright red flowers.

Materials and Techniques: Cyanotypes on cotton and silk, heliographic prints on silk, digital prints on cotton and silk, artist-painted and commercial fabrics, hand embroidery, extensive machine stitching.

Sycamore
45" h x 69" w
2008
$6,500

Artist's Statement: I have a long standing admiration of sycamore trees—the imposing size and distinctive form, the mottled, peeling white bark, and the big leaves all add to the grandeur.

Materials and Techniques: Cyanotypes on cotton and silk, heliographic prints on cotton, digital prints on cotton, artist-painted and commercial fabrics, Seminole piecing, couched threads, hand beading, machine stitching.

Big Root Geranium
38" h x 43" w
2008
$3,400

Artist's Statement: This lovely and dependable ground cover blooms in late spring.

Materials and Techniques: Cyanotypes on silk, artist-painted and commercial silks and cottons, couched threads, machine stitching, and hand beading.

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said artist and cannot be used or duplicated without the artist's consent.