About Martha Beadle, artist

Martha decided to utilize her well-honed skills of needlepoint and handwork and meld them with her love of poetry and art. The result--wildly colorful, intricate creations anchored with a quotation or a line of poetry. "My sister said I was a bit eccentric," said Beadle. So now I refer to my work as 'Needle Eccentricities.'

Beadle, who considers herself a folk-artist, puts heart and soul into each work. Her multi-media pieces use scrapes of fabrics, buttons, beads, seashells, dried flowers and other items. These pieces deal with her family which includes her husband and three children in their twenties, one with Down Syndrome. There was even a piece celebrating her father's 80th Birthday. "Sometimes it's hard to share thoughts, fears or feelings," said Beadle. "It's easier when I put it on the fabric."

Beadle's work won a merit award at the 2002 Arts Alive Festival in Florence, Alabama and third place for her booth exhibition at the 2003 Arts Alive Festival. She has recently been accepted at Okaloosa-FT. Walton Community Art Show in Ft. Walton, Florida, where she won second place with her piece, "Everything to Rights".



Beadle had a piece accepted into the 2003 Appalachian Corridors Juried Exhibition at the Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston, West Virginia. Beadles works were also accepted by jury into the 32nd Annual Kentuck Festival of the Arts in Northport, Alabama.

Beadle's work is on display at ARTifacts Gallery, also in Florence, Kentuck Gallery, North Port, Alabama, as well as in homes and collections across the Southeast and Europe.

Mailing Address:
Martha Beadle
1017 Willingham Road
Florence, AL 35630

Phone: (256) 766-4801

Email: martha@marthasneedleeccentricities.com

Official website: http://www.marthasneedleeccentricities.com