About this Event
All the Flowers: An Artist Talk with Samuel Spurrier
Join exhibiting artist Samuel Spurrier for a conversation about the inspirations, materials, and deeply personal process behind All the Flowers. The program opens with a curator's introduction by Greg Robinson and a short film screening that offers a glimpse into Spurrier's distinctive artistic practice.
In conversation with BIMA Director of Learning & Engagement Jenna d'Anna, Spurrier will explore how his three enduring passions for gardening, nature, and fabric have intertwined over the past decade in his work. Beginning with the soil itself, he transforms botanical dyes and flowers into richly layered textiles and expressive inkblot compositions using a technique known as klecksography. Drawing on years of experience in floral design, Samuel's work embraces lush color, organic forms, and repetition as both artistic expression and a way of staying grounded in the present moment and deepening his connection with the natural world.
Audience Q&A and reception to follow.
Guest bio- Samuel Spurrier:
Samuel Spurrier is a fiber artist, pattern maker, and botanical dyer living on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He studied pattern making at Apparel Arts in Oakland CA and apprenticed under botanical dyer Monica Medeiros. His love of nature and flowers comes from his childhood in upstate South Carolina. There his grandmother Frankie showed him the joy of color found in blooms and his grandfather Big Sam instilled a reverence for nature that comes through in his art. He grows and forages all the botanicals used in his work on the island. Specializing in eco-printing, a sustainable natural dyeing technique that permanently transfers the pigments and tannins of the flower and leaf directly to the fabric, he incorporates his love of gardening, and his passion for textiles to create work that pulls the viewer into a world all its own. Clothing, embroidered tapestries, and artist books made from his dyed fabric, explore themes of our connection to nature, and our place in the universe. His aim is to capture the fleeting beauty of the blooms of summer as that season on the island is brilliant but brief.
Guest website/social:
https://www.instagram.com/samuelalltheflowers/
Event venue & nearby stays
Frank Buxton Auditorium | Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, 550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, United States
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