Cutaways I & II – Celebrating the Beauty of What’s Left Behind

Cutaways II – 34×24″

My new textile art series, Cutaways, transforms salvaged scraps from garment-making into abstract textile collages, each piece a meditation on incompleteness and intuitive composition.

Set against satin backdrops, these embroidered velvet offcuts revel in the tactile poetry of bricolage: spontaneous juxtapositions, layered textures, and the serendipity of assembly. Like collage, they defy linear storytelling, inviting multiplicity, mystery, and the quiet power of what was never meant to be whole.

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Selected works for sale through Saatchi Art

My Optimism of Color Blog

Every Tuesday and Friday, I post a photo or piece of art that I’ve created that reflects what I call the Optimism of Color. Through vibrant colors and bold visceral forms, these works shout out my joy at being alive, and my good fortune at being able to continue to make art after surviving five cardiac arrests in one night in 2011.

Each of the images I post brings a smile to my face. I hope they bring you similar joy and laughter through the Optimism of Color.

All photos © Linda Joyce Ott 2025

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