I got to spend some time at the AQS show in Daytona Beach last month. I thought you’d enjoy seeing a few of the quilts.
A detail shot:
There was a nice exhibit of quilts made by Melissa Sobotka,
Cynthia England does beautiful work, as these photos show.
Look at all those seams!
More photos to come in the next post.
Ellen Lindner
I’m apparently quite enamored with these 3D Croton Leaves. They’re all part of a larger series (or installation?) called A Croton Story. Here’s Chapter 3. And a detail shot. I hope you can tell that the two halves of the leaf sort of fold up around the central vein, but with quite a bit of downward curl…
I’m SO happy with my latest quilt, Fragrant Canopy. It started as one piece of fabric which I dyed/printed. That fabric makes up the left two-thirds of the completed quilt. I had great fun working on the details, especially adding some black hand stitching. I love everything about this quilt! Not only the results, but also…
I’m just back from a fabulous trip to Paris, where our favorite event was taking a cooking class. There were three students in our class and we met in the home of our chef, Catalina. Catalina tried hard to teach us correct cutting techniques. We sorta got it, but then we would forget and revert…
These are the final pieces that make up the “Growth” exhibit, currently on display in Dunedin, FL. As you can see, the Florida members of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) are very talented! This piece by Susan Rienzo was front and center. Doris Hulse made this piece, which includes references to Alice in Wonderland and…
After making small collages our online instructor, Jane Davies, asked us to visually crop them and to pay attention to negative space. Well, I’m sort of “known” for cropping things, so I was right in my comfort zone! Before: After: As expected, everything looked better when cropped. There were several reasons for this: – Due…
I’ve created quite a few butt-ugly fabrics during my dying experiments. (No offense to butts!) However, I know that I can save most of them, so they’re only “problems,” until I can get around to rescuing them. In the meantime, they’re teaching me what NOT to do. Like screen printing with liquid dye instead of…
Fenella Davies’s quilt is dramatic.
Thanks for sharing.
Great texture and composition, right? I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I just saw the Melissa Sobotka collection yesterday at AQS Lancaster, PA. and took a photo of the same one you did (End of the Spin). I particularly appreciated that the collection spanned from her earliest quilts (2007?) to the present so we could see the evolution. We all should do a similar reflective retrospective through our own work to feel better when we feel stagnant!
Her display got me thinking along the same lines, Candy. When I saw them, they were arranged according to color and subject. I would have really enjoyed seeing them in chronological order. Like you, I was looking for connections and evolution. There’s no doubt about her work being extraordinary.