Wall Art Quilts
Art quilts hang floating on the wall and are frameless. They and spool scrolls contains story, vintage, natural, and reclaimed altered materials.
Mixed media quilt 23" x 36"
"Once a Wildish Time" $495 (available at AuSable Artisan Gallery in Grayling, MI)
This mixed media art quilt piece harkens back to a time of magic and reverence for all living things. Inspired by the W. B. Yeats poem, it tells a story in embossed and altered original watercolor, pencil and acrylic, stitching, paper manipulation on vintage fabrics. Paper, canvas, fabric, fibers and cheesecloth, and hand-dyed vintage lace, with dyed beaver chewed branch that supports these mystical forest guardians.
SPOOL ART SCROLLS
Hanging spool scrolls, large and small tell tales large and small! Use the small scrolls as holiday ornaments or to hang in a tiny space.
40 x 8.5""Winter Sky Story Scroll" $395.00 (available at AuSable Artisan Gallery in Grayling, MI) This collaged scroll hangs on a hardwood spool with leather thong hanger. It is on altered fabrics/fibers with my art transfers. Sea glass, stitching, and vintage beads and wool mark the planets, constellations, and northern lights.
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18" x 23"
"Lodge Singer" SOLD
This large-eyed barred owl sat one evening in a pine outside my studio window. The robins were all a twitter and disturbed by its presence. The evening light danced pink and gold behind as the sun set. This stitched piece has dyed fabrics and cheesecloth, and vintage lace and buttons, Ojibwe music of the owl "Who sits atop my lodge", which I felt appropriate. I painted the fabric and machine and slow stitched the owl focusing on those dark eyes that seem to jump from the dusk deep woods.
14.5 x 21"
"Ramblin" SOLD
This black bear boar rambled across the road in front of us one late summer day into a field of big bluestem, Queen Anne's lace and asters. Taking its time, the huge bear, seemed to have no concern and was out for a stroll. Seed stitching represent the seeds translocating and transplanting themselves with the rambler! Buttons, dyed and rust fabrics, and stitching tell the tale.
14.5 x 21.5"
"On Marshmallow Feet" SOLD
This pieces is suspended by a dyed driftwood stick and tells the story of the fox on a summer morning emerging from the woodland door. Through blueberries and pines it moved like the sunlight, a flash of red-gold, unconcerned with me. Stitched watercolors, embossed on eco-dyed paper, vintage lace and buttons and altered fabric.
COLLAGE
These amazingly fun miniature art quilt collages are mounted on backboards or canvas and ready to hang without a frame. I print my original art then alter it, stuff it and stitch it.
"Dive Deeper" (Loon)
8 x 10" fabric, canvas with gesso and tissue, vintage buttons, handmade paper, driftwood, altered vintage 1880s cabinet card holder, dyed cheesecloth, art printed on fabric, stitching, shells, sea glass.
"Sleeping Bear and Manitous"
11 x 9.5" fabrics, dyed paper, art printed fabric, vintage buttons, handmade paper, yarn fibers, driftwood, altered acrylic painting, stitching.
"Nomad of the North"
9 x 10.5" fabrics, mono print cloth, my art great gray Yellowstone owl sketch printed on fabric, glow-in-the-dark thread stitching, stick, vintage and wood buttons, with text.
"Wild Life" (Wolf)
9.5 x 11.5" dyed khadi paper, eco-printed fabric, art printed fabric, stitching, wrapped stick with dyed lace, vintage button, fibers, and art transfer with gold mica flakes.
"Forest Eyes" (Great Gray Owl)
9 x 12.5" dyed and printed fabrics, stick, buttons, polycolor pencil, watercolor, dyed lace and cheesecloth, art printed fabric, text, stitching.
"Enjoy Life!" (Porcupine)
"8 x 10" handmade paper, stitched art transfer, porcupine quills, altered playing card, vintage buttons, wood, mono printed fabric, dyed lace/cheesecloth, vintage music on textured canvas