Jill Nordfors Clark

Inspired by native people of the far north who historically used seal and walrus gut to make functional items, such as clothing, bags and hats, Jill Nordfors Clark borrows from that tradition to form sculptural non-traditional baskets. She frequently uses elegant needle lace stitches in gut as the connector between natural materials, like forsythia branches, to create gentle uplifting forms. Her work is sheer and transparent yet feels grounded and substantial through the use of supporting twigs.


Books by Jill Nordfors Clark:

Needle Lace: Techniques and Inspiration, Hand Books Press, Madison, WI 1999

Needle Lace and Needleweaving, Arthur Schwartz and Co., New York, 1991
(V N Reinhold 1974)



please contact us for other available works

thirteenmoonsgallery@earthlink.net



No Way Out (top view)
28" x 10.5"
$2950

 

Piling: Life Cycle
I: 26" x 8" $1400
II: 22" x 8" $1200
III: 18"x 8" $1000

The Grass Is Always Greener
33.5" x 12" x 6"
$2975

Dark Days Ending
45" x 10" x 10"
$1700

Take Flight
26" x 8.5"
$1400