Paintings in cloth

Pagoda and Nightbird featured image

Daily Artwork Challenge

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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Getting into the weeds

Ok, sometimes I repeat myself, I admit. Unless I get tired of making something I might make multiple versions of the same thing?  Does anyone else do that? One image has been particularly prone to this repetitive activity. I had silkscreened a two-color image on a piece of satin rescued from an old wedding gown

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Berks in Stitches video

Here is a little video of Berks in Stitches, currently on display at Art Plus Gallery in West Reading. And, a link to the show: https://art-plus-gallery.square.site/berks-in-stitches And in case that wasn’t enough to pique your interest, an article in a local paper. https://smartnews.link/w/gcBs It has been really fun to meet friends and visitors to the

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Artist of the Week, SAQA

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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Evening in Steel Valley

Day 2 SAQA Artist of the Week

I started transitioning from painting to art quilts while living in Pittsburgh. I was greatly influenced by The Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh and the Fiber Arts International which the Guild organizes. I took my first art quilt classes from Sandy Kephart and Tina Williams Brewer in 2008-2010, and I was immediately off and running.

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An Introduction

I was asked to be the Artist of the week for SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Associates), and will be posting on their members only facebook page every day this week.  I will share the posts here on my blog as well. Day one: I ask myself each time: “Why create this artwork using fabric?” What

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Behind the scenes — a sale

I’m always pleased to sell a piece of art, but this latest experience was one of the best. Here are some of the elements that went into it (besides creating the artwork that is!) I recreated my website. It was an intensive project last winter that I approached with dread. Once I got going, it

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I just finished a busy week teaching youngsters at a summer camp. Yes, a distraction from my artwork, but I like watching them grow up.  And it helps to ground me to the families in my community and feel a part of it. The week before that, I participated in a Plein Air contest. Luckily

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