Featured Artists
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Featured Artists |
Wesley Berg Photography
A Lazy Morning for Three Red Fox Kits by Wesley Berg
Lynx Sitting in the Snow by Wesley Berg
Wesley Berg specializes in wildlife photography and in particular on photographing the wide variety of mammals and birds that live in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. He lives in Silverton, Colorado and spends a lot of his time out skiing, biking, hiking, climbing and trail running in the mountains around Silverton. He almost always has his camera with him to capture images like that of a lynx and her offspring who followed his track while he was out backcountry skiing.
Wesley grew up in Colorado and developed a love for the mountains at an early age, climbing several of the 14-thousand foot peaks long before it became a popular pastime. He often carried a camera to take pictures of the fantastic scenery viewed from the top of mountains, but eventually gained an interest in photographing the wildlife he saw. He also incorporates one of his other interests into his larger framed photographs as he designed and builds the frames for his wildlife photos out of walnut and cherry hardwoods.
Betsy Baier, Kindred Spirits Fiber Arts
Weaver, Spinner, Multi-Fiber Artist
Betsy is a weaver of fine wool, alpaca, yak and silk shawls, scarves, cowls, and other garments. Inspired by the interplay of fiber and color, she creates eclectic, artistic “wearables.” As a decades-long knitter, she began her weaving journey in 2017 and since then "went down the rabbit hole" of learning and utilizing many weaving techniques, then spinning much of her own yarn, then using that yarn to make extraordinarily unique pieces. She often utilizes “Saori” weaving, a free-style Japanese method that is absent of patterns, rules or restrictions. She also practices pattern weaving, which follows a more traditional path of creating twills and decades-old European designs - offering the look of traditionally woven cloth.
Her hand-spinning creates yarns from various fibers: fine sheep’s wool (like merino and shetlanc), alpaca, yak, cashmere, silk, bamboo, tencel – whatever feels right for the current piece she has in mind. All of her pieces are “finished” in water to bring out the soft and natural feel of the fiber, and to prevent shrinkage. With these hand-spun and luxury yarns, she creates knitted gloves, cowls, and fiber-based bowls, as seen at The 9318 Collective.
