About Me
Designing visually stimulating textile pieces based on my life experiences, inspiring words, questions of our age and nature is a consuming passion. Getting to this point has been a long road and filled with many incredible adventures and serendipity. Developing these areas that inspire me will create many new avenues for growth and adventure.
A passion for color, textures, and mixed media products leads me in a never-ending desire to create. Living and traveling in Europe for several years as well as many areas of the U.S. has had a big influence on my color choices. There are so many themes to explore! For this reason, many of my pieces are getting smaller and more intimate so I can create more. Slowing down this passion with deliberate hand stitching helps me to appreciate and think about each nuance as the piece comes together. While I do use a sewing machine when necessary, creating with a machine alone does not give me the joy that stitching by hand does.
Structure and balance are two very important elements for me. It is something I’m always trying to achieve in my art and in my personal life. Just as in nature there are building blocks that support the beauty of our world, most of my pieces have a traditional pieced background or block upon which I then like to add natural shapes and embellishments. I see it as the stuff that gives our lives meaning and depth.
Exploring the theme of nature and the current environmental concerns will be a new and evolving series of work. Combining new and used materials, lost and found items and incorporating this into textile art that tells a story is my way of addressing some of these concerns. It is my hope to reach a wider audience with thought provoking pieces in the form of quilt art. Fabric is such an everyday item and quilting has long been a medium of self expression even within the confines of usefulness that our ancestors lived by. Something deep within us responds to textile/fabric art on a level that is closer to our core feelings.
I have spent most of my life in a variety of self-taught artistic pursuits. Learning embroidery in high school and crazy quilting in the mid-80’s fueled my passion for ribbons and embellishments. I designed art rubber stamps for several years, creating projects for stores, workshops, magazines and books. The paper embellishment market further entrenched my desire to put buttons, beads, lost and found pieces, etc. on more than just paper. Stamping on fabric is a natural extention of past pursuits and a way to combine more than one medium.
My designs and projects have been featured in several books and magazines including RubberStampMadness, Country Marketplace, Stampin Up, Design Original Books, and Paperkuts. Currently I am designing stamped art quilts for Clearsnap, Inc. and am a featured designer for Stewart Superior.
Currently living in rural Idaho with 2 labrador dogs, a cat, several turkeys and chickens and a good-natured husband who is long on patience. Soon to include a bee hive and milking goats, 4 rambunctious grandchildren and their parents add to the general melee.
A passion for color, textures, and mixed media products leads me in a never-ending desire to create. Living and traveling in Europe for several years as well as many areas of the U.S. has had a big influence on my color choices. There are so many themes to explore! For this reason, many of my pieces are getting smaller and more intimate so I can create more. Slowing down this passion with deliberate hand stitching helps me to appreciate and think about each nuance as the piece comes together. While I do use a sewing machine when necessary, creating with a machine alone does not give me the joy that stitching by hand does.
Structure and balance are two very important elements for me. It is something I’m always trying to achieve in my art and in my personal life. Just as in nature there are building blocks that support the beauty of our world, most of my pieces have a traditional pieced background or block upon which I then like to add natural shapes and embellishments. I see it as the stuff that gives our lives meaning and depth.
Exploring the theme of nature and the current environmental concerns will be a new and evolving series of work. Combining new and used materials, lost and found items and incorporating this into textile art that tells a story is my way of addressing some of these concerns. It is my hope to reach a wider audience with thought provoking pieces in the form of quilt art. Fabric is such an everyday item and quilting has long been a medium of self expression even within the confines of usefulness that our ancestors lived by. Something deep within us responds to textile/fabric art on a level that is closer to our core feelings.
I have spent most of my life in a variety of self-taught artistic pursuits. Learning embroidery in high school and crazy quilting in the mid-80’s fueled my passion for ribbons and embellishments. I designed art rubber stamps for several years, creating projects for stores, workshops, magazines and books. The paper embellishment market further entrenched my desire to put buttons, beads, lost and found pieces, etc. on more than just paper. Stamping on fabric is a natural extention of past pursuits and a way to combine more than one medium.
My designs and projects have been featured in several books and magazines including RubberStampMadness, Country Marketplace, Stampin Up, Design Original Books, and Paperkuts. Currently I am designing stamped art quilts for Clearsnap, Inc. and am a featured designer for Stewart Superior.
Currently living in rural Idaho with 2 labrador dogs, a cat, several turkeys and chickens and a good-natured husband who is long on patience. Soon to include a bee hive and milking goats, 4 rambunctious grandchildren and their parents add to the general melee.