Zinnia stem

Persimmon Endosperm

Artist Statement

Currently, my fiber wall hangings are inspired by microscopic/cellular imagery. All changes in essence happen on that infinitesimal level and result in the world we experience. My work is a kind of invented biology zooming in on that fundamental nature of things and bringing it into vision.

Starting with white cotton and silk, I add vibrant saturated color using dye and paint. Stitching adds lines of light and shadow as well as color. There is a tactile pleasure to handling and making art with fabric. I work loosely from sketches and concepts but each piece travels a route of evolution and change. My challenge is to trust the process to unfold.

Biography

In my long ago younger days, I studied art; primarily drawing and painting. After decades of detours through careers as a teacher and a psychologist, I have again happily created room in my life for artmaking. I began dyeing cloth and focusing on fiber art in the mid-nineties. I work out of my home studio in the woods of Southern Vermont.

Gallery Representation
Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
The Guild -The Artful Life
Fiber Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
Gallery in the Woods, Brattleboro, VT

Studio Art Quilt Associates - Professional Artist Member

Selected Gallery and Museum Exhibitions and Awards

2008
Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State
American Embassy in Dili, East Timor

Hill Country Arts Foundation Invitational Show
Ingram, TX

Vermont Arts Council Grant

2007
Contemporary Vermont Quilters
Shelburne Art Museum
Shelburne, VT

Unbound
World Quilt and Textile
Manchester, NH

2006
Art Quilts at the Whistler III
Whistler House Museum of Art
Lowell, MA

Art Quilts New England/New York
Brush Gallery
Lowell, MA

Hooker Dunham Gallery
Women's Voices Women's Visions
Brattleboro, VT

2005
Fiber Arts Center: Featured Artist
Amherst, MA

Gallery in the Woods: Group Show
Brattleboro, VT

Handworks Gallery: Annual Fiber Show
Acton, MA

2004
Art Quilts at the Sedgwick
Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA

Art Quilts at the Whistler II
Whistler Museum of Art, Lowell, MA

Art Quilts- New England
Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

Art Quilts: Elements
Page-Walker Arts Center, Cary, NC

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Ft. Washington, PA

Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA

The Art and Soul of Quilting, Kenosha, WI

Quilts For Change, Cincinnati, OH

Images used by permission from http://www.uri.edu/artsci/bio/plant_anatomy/index.htm

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