My Art
My artwork includes fiber, clay, paper, metal and assorted adornments, Here is just a small sample of the fiber arts.
Mrs Gorgon says, "Put on a Happy Face, now!"
1994 - Early quilt of ceramics with copper wire
Flower Series
Lily's Secret Garden
2006
This was started simply to use up some scraps of fabric. Embrodiery floss, painted butterfly, beads. In the collection of Lily Morrison.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contary
2006
This second piece was used as the cover on New Smyrna Beach Magaine, Spring 2008. It contains four bike reflectors along with buttons, beads and silk binding. In the collection of Sue Booth, Isle of Jersey.
Fiber Art Gallery
Elements Challenge for quiltart.com
The Wrath of Mrs. Gorgon
17"x28" - 2008
Background cotton dyed, rusted, painted with oil pastels, embellished with metalic and cotten threads. "Postcards" are cotton dyed and embellished with paint and colored pencils. They are backed with silver foil liner from ceral boxes. Gorgon body commercial black woven fabric. Armor handdyed woven fabric embellished with colored pencils and oil pastels.
Fiber Freaks
10"x20"
2008
Commercial background home decor sample. Commercial fabrics fused to background, embellished with embrodiery threads. Lettering added in PhotoShop.
Quilt Journal Project
8.5"x11"
2005
Series featured women who made a difference in my art work and my life.
4x4 Challenge
Why is the Sky Blue Challenge
Snowbirds in a November Sky
4'x4'
2006
Background cotton handdyed. Characters in ink, prismacolor, dye pens on white cotton. Main character collaged fabics, painted features, goggles.
I Remember Mama Challenge
My Dear Sainted Mother and Her One-Eyed Dog
2005
Created from my mother's clothing and jewelry plus fabrics donated by friends.
Published in the book I Remember Mama and featured on the cover as well as Quilter's Newsletter. It was also featured in an article in AKA Newsletter about recued dogs.
Think Outside the Box Challenge
The Bear Box
2005
The box features my poems about bears.
Make Quilts Not War Challenge
The Profit Margin
2006
Features commercial flag with fused overlay of Picasso-like woman, flames and 3-D fused money. Red strips are covered in cotton and silk handstitched crosses.
American Soul Holes
Commercial flag, printed and fused images of green plastic army men and purple hearts, metalic thread, needles. The men are mending the holes in our flag. The red stripes are covered in embroidered crosses.
There's Another Damn Frog at the Door!
2005
Family stories taken to the fiber fields of imagination from the castle on the hill to the tree of stars, the gator in the moat, the unhappy bear and those damn frogs that keep turning up. A shocked Pamela Allen joins me in the windows (I'm wearing my gorgon crown) overlooking my world.
Pamela in a Cunningham Sky
2007
After viewing Earl Cunningham's art, I was inspired to create a skyscape for Pamela Allen using the outsider art techniques.
Poe's Ravens and Crows
Collage Mania for American Cancer Society Donations
Soaring around the Sun
Marley and Zulu discussing humanbeings - sold to Sue Arnold
Rap Rap Rapping at Your Door - sold to Elizabeth Dawson
Three 3"x6" postcards created for a challenge concerning the poet Poe's birthday which became a fund raiser for cancer.
Marley and Zulu came to me from the book The Lake Dreams the Sky by Swain Wolfe. Wonderful storytelling.
Moonrise over the Brownstone
2008, 10"x12"
Created to show how the birds in Florida are adapting to human interference in nature.
