About
In the Culver City Studio
Statement
I'm not a photographer, I'm a painter who uses photography.
I am a mixed media artist and working mother. My new works of hand dyed and embroidered photo story-quilts started out for me while my children were facing their transition to adulthood and leaving the nest. When Covid hit us all two years ago, mid-year and mid-project, my dilemma was how to work on an empty nest project when suddenly our house was filled again and close together with everyone in each other’s faces.
I bounced around from depression to gratitude. I took up sewing at my dining table, embroidering my photographs in greater detail. It was fun, beautiful and meditative. My daughter helped me select the colors and suggested different details for me to sew. So what started out as a project mourning the loss of motherhood came full circle during this pandemic, becoming a natural collaboration of sorts.
My original idea was to tell my story, a love letter to my kids and our two decades together, but it changed, as we all have changed from the pandemic. Being locked down created a yearning in me to explore the great outdoors. I increasingly sought out nature, coast to coast, from the craggy shorelines of Maine to California’s coastline of southern beaches, central coast vistas, and the ancient Redwoods of Muir Woods, inspiring my nature photography of sunlit streams or shadowy arboreal groves.
My artworks are photographs of these scenes but really are about joy and facing new life transitions. Images—floating petals in water, deep green algae, crisp fall apples, and sparkling blue waters—are sewn together to tell my story. Within this long tradition of women creating story-quilts, I take pride in joining this tradition by enhancing my images with hand-sewing, dyeing, and quilt-making.
What started out as a project of mourning, transitions and loss of motherhood, came full circle working with my daughter, creating together a new joy filled body of work, ever more personal, more green, and more intricate. Woven with each stitch, and with every hand dyed fold, my photographs represent a hopeful future and also continue a rich history of women making art together.
About
Annie Seaton is a mixed media artist and painter whose artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and in such notable collections as the Vernon Collection, the Marriott, Sun Coast, Hyatt and Hilton Hotels among many others. She is also a prize winning fine artist on minted.com selling over 2200 fine art prints since 2012.
Annie Seaton has held numerous Gallery Director positions in Southern California, and is currently Consulting Gallery Director for the Kopeikin Gallery since 2015. In addition, Annie Seaton is a Kipaipai mentor and fellow, and on the Advisory Board of stARTup Curatorial as well as a passionate fine art photo collector and member of Photo Art Collectors LA (PACLA).
Born in Toronto, Canada she received her BA from Mills College and lives in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Contact
aseatonart@gmail.com
310.621.5847
Installation, Large Photo Quilt, Hauoli, MOAH, Lancaster
119” x 95”
(From Woven Stories)