Elizabeth J. Buckley

Elizabeth J. Buckley’s Artist Statement

Elizabeth Buckley’s approach to tapestry involves working in multiple layers and dimensions to create visual poems of blended colors and light. She often incorporates illusions of transparency, three-dimensional forms, and tromp l’oeil effects, utilizing many techniques found in French Gothic and Renaissance tapestries. The Veils of Time offers glimpses within a story that begins in the molecular energy of atoms, DNA strands, star-lit galaxies, and in the invertebrate gastropod forms that began many millennia ago, long before the dinosaurs roamed the swamps. November Light is a quiet contemplation of Sandhill Cranes grazing in their winter home along the Rio Grande river in New Mexico. Ebb and Flow is a view of infinity in the constant movement of ocean waves.

Elizabeth J. Buckley’s Artist Biography

Elizabeth Buckley is second-generation tapestry artist and teacher of over 50 years. She teaches –both online and in-person–to an international student base, drawing from multiple tapestry traditions to provide her students with the technique vocabulary for finding and expressing their own unique voice. Her handwoven tapestries evolved from using techniques of the Southwest traditions to those of French tapestry; from weaving with no pre-planned design to using a cartoon. She further honed her skills in Aubusson, France. With her degree in art, Elizabeth Buckley brings to the classroom — and to her tapestries–her deep grounding in design principles and color theory that specifically apply to the language of the loom.

Elizabeth Buckley has exhibited widely, receiving a number of awards for her work. She was featured in the Fiber Art Now article on “An Artist’s Sense of Place,” Fall 2017 issue. Over the decades, she has frequently written articles for the Tapestry Topics newsletter of the American Tapestry Alliance, as well as for her blog, The Artist’s Path. Her noteworthy publications include: FiberArts Design Book V and Carol K. Russell’s The Tapestry Handbook: The Next Generation, and Contemporary International Tapestry. Recently, her work has been included in: Tommye Scanlin’s Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond, Rebecca Mezoff’s The Art of Tapestry; Micala Sidore’s The Art is the Cloth, and soon-to-be-released The Language of Handwoven Tapestry.