Waltraude Stehwien: Announcement

Announcement

We're excited to announce that more of Waltraude's art has been self published. We've taken some favorite motifs of her unique application of the ancient art of scissorcutting and published a series of art cards. LandscapeArtPublishing.ca

These and much more is available for sale at these annual Saskatoon Art & Craft fairs:

WDM Christmas Arts & Craft Faire - mid October
Our Best to You, Prairieland Park - mid November
Sundog Faire, Sask Place - beginning of December

About the Artist

Waltraude Stehwien is a German born artist whose first career path was learning the ancient art of puppetry in her father's marionette theatre. Her studies in stage design and graphic arts at the art academy in Halle, Germany trained her to switch readily between a two and three dimensional workspace.

After retirement from a varied career in puppetry and graphic arts, Waltraude returned to her love of another unique art, that of scissor cutting, or the German Scherenschnitt. (Schere = Scissor, Schnitt = Cut).

She has created a large variety of design, illustrations and even logos using this method, and is regularly called upon to give workshops in this unique art form.

Most recently, she has challenged herself to explore the beauty and vastness of the prairie and other Canadian landscapes. The linear perspectives and the often stark contrasts of winter scenes have inspired Waltraude to bring these sometimes intense feelings to the viewer with her scissors and a single sheet of black specialty paper.