Linda Berger will be in this year’s Beyond The Fringe show. Here she is posing by one of her pieces. It’s titled Getting out of the House. The materials used were wool clothing cut into strips, hand dyed fiber and yarn.

What drives you to create?
Creating is just inside of me and MUST come out. Mostly as an image in my mind, then drawn and incorporated into a fiber medium.

Why did you choose fiber as your medium?
My mother taught me to knit at age 9. Though out the years more and more fiber elements and techniques have come to me. Also I dye wool to hook with and spin fleece to yarn for knitting and crocheting etc…

What kind of materials do you incorporate into your art? Where do you find them?
There is always fiber from animals and plants in my hooking, knitting,
crocheting and spinning.

How much time do you typically invest in a piece?
Time is irreverent to me. When the piece reaches how I envisioned, then
it’s done.

What is your process to turn your artistic vision into the finished piece?
Usually I draw or paint my vision. Or sometime I will use a photo.

What is the special meaning or message behind your work?
There is not a special meaning or message to my work.

Some artists create their art for therapy purposes. Does that apply to you?
I can’t say my work is for therapy, however I sure feel great after something is created and finished.

What artists do you admire most?
Doug West right here in Taos, NM

Where do you find inspiration?
Everywhere!! We are surrounded by beauty; one can find beauty in a rock or a hill etc…

Do you have any upcoming projects or art shows this year?
Yes, in December there will be a fiber show at the Harwood Museum. And my work will be there the whole month.

How can people contact you?
Anyone can contact me at love2bead @ kitcarson . net