For artist Loretta Tearney Warner it is a process of experimentation.
Working several years with oil and acrylic, in 2011 Loretta incorporated textiles into her art, making use of her lifelong knowledge and experience with these materials. After much experimentation, she chose burlap as the predominant material she would use because of its versatility and she found meaning in its common quality… stitching large and small pieces of burlap to a linen backing provided the right mix of texture and flow, definition and diffusion, to allow her to highlight imperfection and gracefulness in her subjects. The process by which Loretta combines fabric and paint facilitates change in her creations, a very important value in her working technique. She almost always begins with a clear image and sometimes that clarity remains. But often she tries to lose that clarity, finding a new statement of the original. Arriving at that new statement gives her the truest sense of her expression in a mosaic of materials converging to express emotions. Her new body of work, “Images in Textiles and Paint”, embodies these concepts and methods. Her process of art making using textiles and other media takes many months because of the layering of fabric and paint and the required sewing.

Warner’s work has been exhibited at Monarch Gallery in La Jolla, California and in shows in Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Venice, California. She exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.