I am very much influenced by the folk art of my native Czechoslovakia - weaving, costume, embroidery, wood-carving and some of the architecture. That is where my love of bright colors originated. In this country, I became aware of the beautiful quilts, especially the quilts of the Amish, with their simple but powerful designs. I want to draw from these traditions in my work and would like my work to bring warmth and aesthetic feeling into people’s environments, which are often so cold and colorless.
Cristina
Completed in 1977
Private Collection
Many Ways
Completed in 1990
Private Collection
Tatiana Krizova Lizon’s fiber works are an
engaging synthesis of her own lyrical sensibilities, her Central
European training and heritage and a new technical process unfamiliar to
most American fiber artists. The Artprotis process, somewhat akin to to
collage or felting, allows an unusually flexible layering of unwoven
wool fibers and other materials. A special bonding procedure joins these
into a tough permanent surface which Lizon often embellishes with with
painting, objects and embroidery. The special, patented process was
founded in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to which the artist periodically
travels to produce that part of her work. The process is exploited in a
personal way by Lizon to give a soft, dreamy image which makes me think
of her work as connected to the legacy of Marc Chagall.
F.
Clark Stewart, Professor of Fine
Arts,
University of Tennessee, 1987
