“I draw my greatest inspiration from the nature I see in the world around me. As a native Californian, I have a deep appreciation for the mountains, forests and the ocean and I love to gather new inspiration as I travel the world.”
BIO
Liberty Worth is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, educator and public speaker. She is a commissioned artist making custom work for installations in homes and public settings - one piece which is permanently in the Cayton Childrens’ Museum in Santa Monica, CA. Liberty teaches creativity workshops and conferences across the US and internationally as well as teaching high school art part-time in Santa Monica, CA. Her work has shown in multiple countries and she was a part of the inaugural show for the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA) in 2022. She has published a book of art and poetry and has had her visual art published in multiple publications. Find her on Instagram at @libertyworthart
ARTIST STATEMENT
I believe textiles have the remarkable ability to hold memories and story. My work uses them to process reaching through memory and grief for a place of harmony and healing.
Collecting textiles, both treasured and discarded, I piece fabrics, paper and scraps together using unconventional, improvisational quilting techniques to create swirling shapes that emerge from the trees, mountains, and coastal inspirations of my sketchbook and collage practices into mounted textile wall paintings.
For my work, color is a tool to be played with, grounded in memories of exploration and adventure. My work gravitates towards bright, harmonious color schemes - taking cues from nature and exploding into bright color directions that recall memories and expand from visual moments - places like the inside of an anemone, patterns on a shell or the neverending shades of green in a forest I have visited.
Living in coastal California, I know first-hand the way nature can heal the rough and broken places we carry in our hearts. I have experienced the healing that comes when we hold our grief out and let the wind and sunshine swirl around it. The earth shows us how brokenness can still be present, but also be beautiful - and my art is a practice of gathering, and mending broken pieces into new, fragmented-yet-whole stories - a hope for what healing is possible with time.
My work is about reaching - pushing forward into new territories of hope and healing - even as it holds the memories of what was behind.
Liberty Worth in the studio