Playing off my love of landscape vistas, I reduce them to their most basic elements - space and the horizon line. Abstract and minimal, this series explores a sense of space with an endless horizon line flying solo across an empty field and beyond into infinity. In nature the horizon line is a natural divide; here it is a metaphorical line of transcendence, a shift in consciousness and the endlessness of expansion and transformation.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with re-purposed sari silks from India, cotton batting and thread.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with re-purposed sari silks from India, cotton batting and thread.
Drawn to vast open spaces, my landscapes depict wide vistas of land, sea and sky. They evoke a sense of solitude and inner peace, and offer just a brief bit of respite from the hectic clatter of life and strife. Even the little ones.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with re-purposed sari silks from India, cotton batting and thread.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with re-purposed sari silks from India, cotton batting and thread.
I am fortunate to live on a rustic, wooded property with a river running through it in area filled with streams, ponds and reservoirs. How light plays across the water is endlessly fascinating to watch and capture in fabric.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with silk, many with re-purposed sari silks from India or other silks, all have cotton batting and thread.
These are textile collages, fused and machine quilted, made with silk, many with re-purposed sari silks from India or other silks, all have cotton batting and thread.
Nature inspired individual works in silk.
Textile collages, fused or machine pieced, machine quilted. Re-purposed sari silks from India and other re-purposed silks, cotton batting and thread.
Textile collages, fused or machine pieced, machine quilted. Re-purposed sari silks from India and other re-purposed silks, cotton batting and thread.
Nature inspired individual works in cotton.
Textile collages, mostly fused, some machine pieced, machine and/or hand quilted. Artisan dyed and batik cottons, cotton batting and thread.
Textile collages, mostly fused, some machine pieced, machine and/or hand quilted. Artisan dyed and batik cottons, cotton batting and thread.