During the last twenty years I’ve been living with paint, clay, and fiber, and it is in fiber where I have settled.

I made my first hand hooked rug in 1986 at the urging of a friend. The woman who taught me, Hallie Hall, was an icon of traditional, some say primitive, rug hooking. She presented me with a burlap canvas of a Navajo inspired design because she didn’t think I gave out the strawberry, puppy dog, cow over the moon vibe.

While working on that project, I began thinking of ways to express my own ideas in this particular medium. My next rug project was my first original design, and I also experimented with custom dyeing techniques. In this work, and others that followed I explored symmetry and straight lines, and I have always enjoyed playing with color.

A few years ago I began exploring asymmetry and curvilinear lines, and I haven’t looked back. My challenge when approaching a design is to create geometric harmony while maintaining an asymmetrical and curvilinear perspective.

Rugs are such a fabulous medium for art. Not only are they beautiful, they are also functional.

Linda Garriott