Sense of Place

2006 - 20.5" x 20"

Pigments on linen; free motion machine embroidery.
A tribute to long awaited sunshine and the currents of spring in the northeast.

Destinations

2005 - 31" x 36”

Framed fabric and paper collage; silk screened, painted and layered habotai silk,
vintage and commercial papers, dress pattern.

What Can't Be Stolen     

37.5" x 51"     

This whole cloth wall hanging was unfinished when my car and all my artwork, sewing and studio supplies and equipment were stolen from a hotel parking lot in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. I had just finished eight weeks working as a studio assistant at the Penland School of Crafts spring textile concentration. When the police found the abandoned car six days later, this piece was one of the few items left in it. My other completed works and possessions were all gone. By the time I completed this piece in August, it had evolved into a personal declaration of overcoming, that material things can be destroyed or stolen but our true treasures – our voice, our spirit, our creativity, our inner light - we carry within us and they remain.

What Can't Be Stolen was juried into the Carnegie Center for Art and History's "Form Not Function" show which exhibits January 13 - March 16, 2006.

Harvest

25.5” x 40”

Multi-layered cotton and silk organza wall-hanging created with multiple layers of dyes and metallic paints, appliqué, machine and hand stitching.

Heat

22’ x 23”

A whole cloth piece of silk linen from a length of art cloth that was dye painted, over dyed, silk screened, stamped and hand painted with dyes and textile paints. It has been machine quilted, embroidered, hand stitched and beaded.

44 Northeast Winter's Shield

24” x 49”

This piece started with a canvas base layered with painted fusible web, appliquéd orb and hand-dyed and hand-painted fabric in the borders. Hand-dyed cotton sateen backing.  Heavily machine quilted and hand-embroidered. This piece won a Judge’s Choice Award at Schweinfurth Museum’s 2004 Art=Quilts=Art.

Source

37” x 56.5”

A piece on cotton sateen that has been dyed, silk screened, folded, clamped and over dyed, silk screened and stamped with fabric paints. The larger, darker orb on the bottom was creating through a rubbing. It is machine quilted with parallel horizontal lines and an open grid on the lower portion. The orb at the top was raw edge appliquéd onto the surface and accented with hand stitching. Straight stitch hand embroidery across the lower portion of the piece and to accentuate the grass-like shapes completes it.

Source was awarded third place in Art-Painted Surfaces at the Houston International Quilt Show.