Sharing my thoughts and processes of creating art.

Internationally recognized textile artist specializing in free-motion stitching. Kovarik's work is featured in books, magazines, and critically-acclaimed shows.

A journey of thoughts and images by Paula Kovarik

Two pillows, his and hers. Laying our heads down on pillows can be an adventure in wander-land.

I make art with thread and fabric. Stitching is an extension of my thoughts through my hands. It is a slow art, textural and multi-layered - Paula Kovarik

Children's drawings — paula kovarik

Paula Kovarik had her own creative agency specializing in corporate and employee communications and is now a full-time textile artist.

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I cut things up and put them back together. It’s process not product right? So why do I save all these “products” in my store room when I can be inspired by them to create new pieces? My work is about transformation and discovery so what stops me from using what is at hand? Nothing. So, let’s get

Three weeks, three pieces, three inspirations. My weeks have been full of obligations and distractions so I haven’t been able to concentrate on much of anything in my studio. The distractions were also inspirations. So my art shows it. Those who follow my work will know that I tend to avoid pattern

trying trying again … I had this idea long ago that I could create floating globes that would hang in space and allow viewers to insert their heads into them for a different sensory experience. (See It didn’t work for another go at this idea.) For the past few weeks I have been thinking about me

Back in 2015, I had the opportunity to do an artist residency in the dunes of Lake Michigan. I was captivated by the lake stones. They had personality, presence and power. Soon after I started stitching them.

It’s about the process. I’ve said it before and I say it to myself every day. But it’s more than that. It’s about connection, meditation, intuition and evolution. The work I do is no longer precious, no longer final, no longer static. It lives on, breathes inconsistency and opens new insights. This

I spent a couple of hours yesterday finishing up this little study. It had lingered on my side table for over a year. I am calling it density . Slowing down to stitch by hand is a way to organize my thoughts.

Sometimes pieces emerge out of my subconscious without warning. My task is to allow that to happen. That is what happened with Beastie Boy and His Pals .  I am appalled by the way our government is being run. The creatures that inhabit the power centers have changed the way I think about

Anybody out there?

In vegetable gardening the term cut and come again means you harvest the outer mature leaves of lettuce, spinach or greens and let the inner leaves continue growing. I thought about that when I cut up a couple of my quilts this month. Disrupting and Disruptors are two quilts made from cloth

I talk in my sleep these days. I think it’s all about watching and reading too much news and processing the insanity of our times. One night Jim said I sounded like a drill sergeant. I guess I am trying to fix things.

One of the goals I set for myself this year is to invite curators and other artists to my studio to show my work. I've spent about two months recording, measuring and carefully storing the quilts that I have done in the past 10 years. I'm running out of closets and storage materials. So the question