eQuilter What Women Create Magazine - Winter 2025 - Svetlana Turov

Winter 2025

Find inspiration for your imagination in these carefully curated pages that showcase the wonderful creations of equally amazing women. Through stunning photography and inspirational stories, we invite you to share the art of makers, artists, gypsies, and maverick women just like us! In this issue meet: Svetlana Turov - fiber artist who renews traditional felt techniques through contemporary methods. Her art embodies the creative spirit and profound contributions women bring to fiber fine art, enriching the ongoing dialogue of contemporary artistic practice; Nisha Vikram - founder of CraftCanvas - studio design that is a bridge between artisans and architects, heritage and modernity, and slow processes and fast-moving clients; Jennifer Fisher - a self-taught artist, painter that is exploring fiber art using variations of textiles and thread layered to create a piece that from a distance appears to be a painting; Deborah Carre - one half of the duo Carreducker, a renowned independent bespoke shoemaking firm - is deeply immersed in the word of cordwaining (traditional shoemaking)and with her partner founded the UK's only shoe-making school; Deborah French - a mixed-media artist living Ohio who's work includes collage, monoprinting, assemblages, a greeting card line called MUTT SHOTS, and her latest obsession: little wood scrap houses; Lisa Haukom - photographer and creative director from Florence Oregon - known for her innovative approach to remote photography; Latoyia Smith - a post 9/11 disabled veteran based in Baltimore, Maryland - Latoyia enjoys re-imagining antique furniture to create functional art; Miche Scott - a soap artisan inspired by winding gardens, faraway travels, well-loved books, and the creativity of other makers; Jan Heaton - working in watercolor, her organic forms integrate with the texture of heavy cotton paper. Her marks, pigment selections, and translucent layers are precise, thoughtful and carefully executed; Lisa Anne Tindal - an artist who endeavors to create compelling visual stories about women and designed to draw the viewer in closely and invite them to see themselves in the figures she paints; Suzanne Paquette - a Canadian artist based in Quebec - holds a master's degree in visual arts and has been creating haute lisse tapestries for over 40 years; Nadia Watts - based in Colorado - is an interior designer and textile designer whose work bridges history, artistry, and modern living; Tammy Gilley - artist and story teller, Tammy is the creator of The Soulful Journey: From Shadow to Light, a body of work that blends art journaling, writing, and soulwork; Pet Tales - Chantal Dube - a story about this weaver and artist as told through her pets eyes, Baloo and Mowgli. What Women Create Magazine - Winter 2025/2026 issue.