Caryn W. Stedman
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Open Studio Tours Artist | Open Studios Tour 2023
C.W. Stedman is an independent artist, weaver, and jewelry-maker. Her 2-D art is primarily composed in acrylic, although she works in charcoal and pastel when she is creating studies for her paintings. She often uses her photographs for inspiration. She weaves fiber into cloth creations using a variety of looms and techniques – 4- and 8-harness, rigid heddle and tapestry looms, inkle looms, and tablets, and braids on a marudai or using discs. She makes baskets using traditional woven reeds or by coiling pine needles, sometimes combined with gourds, flat geodes, or other natural materials. Her jewelry combines braided fibers, often with beads or semi-precious stones, loom-woven beaded items and her own lost wax cast silver charms and findings. She enjoys blending her love of fiber with her love of jewelry, semi-precious stones, and beads, often embellishing her fiber items with these, and sometimes creating coordinating jewelry for the fiber items. All her items are original designs.
Acrylic on canvas. Each season is 6″x12″ in the original. Limited edition canvas giclée prints and paper prints of almost all of my work are available.
Images of reed and coiled pine needle baskets. Upper left (Lidded walnut and natural cathead) and lower right (Forest and natural lidded cathead) 14″ by 9″ with lids; Upper right (square footed storage basket with wood handles) 12″x12″ by 11″; Lower left ((Forest and walnut square to round storage basket with seagrass twining. Middle of three sizes in set (10″). Center: Coiled pine needles on pink agate base with African trade beads.