cayce zavaglia
Brace yourself… embroidered portraits. Yep, insanely detailed embroidered portraits by American artist Cayce Zavaglia. I have loved her work for years but never wrote about it because, well, everyone else already had! You know what… I don’t care! Look at this embroidery, these beautiful color choices, and all of those lovely faces. It’s like impressionism, but with thread. STUNNING. Sigh. There, I feel better.
{Thanks to my friend Melinda at Good Eye Gallery for reminding me about Cayce’s work}
wow! incredible, beautiful, and astonishing work…. what a labour of love!!
It can’t be… My first thought was “maybe this is a painting of an embroidery painting?” The patience and detail are mind-boggling!
And her verso paintings are even more amazing!
I can’t even.
A true master.
Oh you are sweet. Made my day! ❤️
Wow! The biggest inspiration ever…just starting my steps into needle point and I am an oil painter! Thank you! Just amazing!
Woah. Unbelievable!
Holy wow!
When I saw these in person I had to keep telling my brain they were actually embroidered, just breathtaking!
YES! So excited to see Cayce’s work here, she is a huge inspiration for my own work. I’ve met her and she is a lovely person (and a fellow St Louisan).
I do embroidery with a threaded needle rather than by machine. I am totally in awe of these pieces, what talent and what an eye for colors etc. It has been my pleasure to see them. Thank you
Kewl you should come up with that. Exectlenl!
Cayce has long been one of my artist crushes…have you seen Jess Larson’s work? She is another crush who makes really lovely embroidery that I think you might like. Here is a link to her portfolio:
http://jesslarson.com/wordpress/portfolio/
Thank you for this amazing site. It is such an inspiration!
Good lord!!! STUNNING! I am swooning!
Dear JC, am really enjoying your divergent art selections each week. As a teacher of high school students And an artist in my spare hours, I am often looking for inspiration. Being a visual omnivore it is really useful to know the actual size of an artwork, then you can really conceptualise it…. Could you please include this information. Is Zavaglia’s work in miniature or not?
she doesn’t have dimensions on her site, but i did a bit of poking around in her exhibition section (click on her name, it’s a link to her site) and most of the embroideries are quite small (8x10ish, 12×12 maybe), but her painting/embroideries are HUGE! (not shown in this post)