Abstract Art Quilt Series
It's really fun to design and create abstract art quilts! The viewer can interpret them any way they choose, although I generally have specific concepts in mind when I design them, others were pure improvisations.
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For example, "Meeting of the Minds" was designed to represent the meeting of a linear thinker with a multi-tasker. "Friendship" was based on the song, "Make New Friends" (one is silver and the other is gold). "Improvisation #7" could also be called "Valentine's Day." "Balancing Act" was an exercise in balancing monochromatic shapes and space.
"Friendship" and "Meeting of the Minds," a diptych.
"Meeting of the Minds" has been shown in SAQA Regional Exhibit "Imagination One by Four," juried by Maggie Vanderweit in 2021 and several other juried exhibitions.
"Balancing Act" was juried into a live show at Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, California by Lori McBride.The full show be viewed online at this link: https://www.laslagunaartgallery.com/2023bwg
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It was also juried into an online show by Debi Shepler & Sherry McConnell at the by Art Room Gallery where it won an Honorable Mention. The link to view the full exhibit is here: https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/exhibitions/2024/january_2024.html
"Improvisation #7" was shown at the Charles H. Taylor Museum in Hampton, Virginia Feb.-March, 2024 in the Members Show.
"Rainbow Tumblers" was shown at the Kavanaugh Gallery in St. Charles, Illinois from February-March, 2024. It was also shown at the Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center from April 17-May 31, 2024 in the Annual Members Show.
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"Tasty Pies" explores the six sensations of taste as they explode on the tongue when we eat those tasty pies! (You have to look very closely to find the SALT!) It is on tour with my eight-state solo exhibition with the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo Tour from 2025-2026. Published in Quilted Poems (High Tide Publications, Deltaville, Virginia), 2021.
"Diamonds Exploding in Delight" is an abstract quilt which begins with a colored center of diamonds forming a six-pointed star. They quickly explode into rhythmically-ordered black-and-white diamonds and the diamonds retain the memory of their colorful origin. They explode further into a universe of small, colorful diamonds. The quilt celebrates the moment when precision transforms into exuberance, and stillness gives birth to light.
"Fabulous Fractals and Fibonacci Sequences" was inspired by a Pinecone/Pineburr workshop I took from Betty Ford-Smith. Pinecone blocks are so heavy that I decided to make an art quilt rather than a traditional quilt. I then decided to quilt Fibonacci sequences, as real pine cones are fractals but they are actually Fibonacci sequences (read my book to find out why!). This quilt is on tour with the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo Tour from 2025-2026. Published in The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science, (High Tide Publications, Deltaville), 2025.
"Music from Noise." We all love music. But how do we hear it, and what makes it music? This quilt shows an orchestra in the center. The middle border shows sound waves which listeners perceive through vibrations of hairs in the cochlea of their ears. Sound waves created by the orchestra must be sorted out from coughs and sneezes in the audience and cell phone noise! Only then does one perceive notes, shown in the black and gold outer border, resulting in the perception of the music of composers portrayed in the white and gold outer border. This will be shown in the American Geophysical Union's Meeting, December 2025. Published in The Quilted Art and Poetry of Science, (High Tide Publications, Deltaville), 2025.