Falling Leaves

From the Artist: Beginning with my earliest traditional quilts, my work has shared an illusion of light and a content that expresses the natural world. The atmospheric potential and organic forms of shibori led me to an exploration of landscape and seascape images. Without being politically correct in a heavy handed way, these pictorial quilts participate in current ecological issues while tapping the long American art tradition of creating images of our land. The quilts often fall within the luminist tradition of stillness, providing a window on a calmer world, similar to Asian traditions where landscape imagery is a meditation tool. Working in series emphasizes cycles of time and nature’s rhythms. My quilts preserve memories of my favorite breathing spaces, or in commission work, they recreate other people’s special views to enjoy year round. I’m grateful that the struggle to make art decisions is balanced by the physical labor of fabric dyeing and the calm of stitching. I have made quilts for over sixteen years and have been a dyer for about fourteen years. My energies are also directed at teaching, wearable art and a production line of dyed silk accessories under the label “amano.”

Techniques: Hand and machine stitched, hand dyed
Culture: American
Geographic Location: North and Central America, United States
Credit Line: The Marbaum Collection, Gift of Hilary and Marvin Fletcher