I decided to join with the members and Friends of Art Plus Gallery in West Reading for a Daily Artwork Challenge. My theme is Pagodas in imaginary surroundings. Remember the movie Amelie (2001). In my memory she takes her father’s garden gnome and puts him in different surroundings around the world. I confess I didn’t […]
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I’ve done many small (mostly 5 x 7”) quilts while travelling. These have often included found objects from those places. I combined some in a piece entitled “From the Other side of the Wall,” which is currently travelling with Quilt National 2019. For the last two and a half years I have been working on
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[This is the fourth in a series I am posting on the SAQA –Studio Art Quilts Associates– members only Facebook page. It follows my journey as an art quilter.] After stumbling for a bit, I realized that what actually inspires me is that which surrounds me. And in rural Eastern PA, that means hills and
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For the last year or so I’ve been faithfully following a series of articles in the local paper (the Reading Eagle, which has meanwhile become one of the many “ghost newspapers” around the country, but that is another story.) The articles are really re-hashing older stories, the latest being from 2002, of the municipalities and
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During Autumn and holiday season, I participate in more art fairs than other times of the year. While it is gratifying to get feedback from those who come to look, my sales have not been great. My current remedy is to make more small collages that aren’t as labor intensive as my hand-sewn art quilts.
