Artist's Statement
Energy-at-Play!
Claire O'Connor
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I design and create bright, happy contemporary art quilts and paintings that make me swoon.
I quilt and paint for the pure, deep voluptuous pleasure of making colors play and textures dance — in my eyes and under my fingers and through my brain and body. Color makes me thumpity-thump giddy. Color feeds me. Patterns are song. Lines, too. Shapes. Light. And texture. For me, this is Holy Stuff. That pulsing, sexy beat of love-essence-energy that sings above and below the surface. Color and pattern are the keys to my castle, the gate into my garden. I adore being in my studio playing with colors, fabrics, pigments, and sensuous patterns-within-patterns. And if all this were the only reason for being, that would be a-plenty, darlin’! Life is all tantalizing patterns brimming with energy-at-play. And, if you happen to take pleasure from this-here version of heaven… well, really, does it get any better? 
I also create curvaceous art quilts using fabrics that my hubby, Ken Plattner, and I have lovingly hand-dyed ourselves, using organic, eco-friendly natural dyes.
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Enchanted Studio 1.0
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Enchanted Studio 2.0
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Enchanted Studio 3.0
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Enchanted Studio 7.0
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