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 I've been making portrait quilts in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988. My goal from the start has been to use fabric as a medium of expression. I incorporate the same light, shadow and realistic perspective used by artists in other media, but without the use of paint, dyes or other surface treatments. Instead I use the ordinary quilter's tools of commercial fabric and thread. I use unexpected prints rather than solid colors to recreate the complexities of skin and hair and the other components of the human form. More recently I have begun applying these techniques to still life compositions. All pieces are cut free-hand with scissors or rotary cutter and machine appliqued and machine quilted. I'm proud to be part of the exciting movement that is taking the woman's work we call quilting from "art" to ART! | |
