Aspen Solace 1
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2007, 36" x 40"
Fabric collage
Quilt Visions 2008
I am enthralled with the ethereal mood and tranquility,
 color palette changes with seasons,  Solace is ubiquitous.
Aspen Solace 2
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2008, 40" x 40"
Fabric collage
I often compose a large scene, creating it as a diptych,
for working ease; and loving the visual  statement. Equally wonderful
that both pieces can be exhibited separately.

 


 Devil's Backbone
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2009, 53" x 10"
Larimer County Visual Artist 2008
Fabric collage
Depicts 3 vignettes of this vast stone silhouette, most striking
as the last “up thrust” of the foothills of the front range of the
Rocky Mountains, near Loveland, CO. My geologist dad  fostered
my intrigue for these “hogbacks”.

 


Survivor
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2008, 36" x 82"
Fabric collage
Halfway through this quilt it dawned, I was
speaking for my sister and aunt, both
accommodating their lives in nursing
homes, same as this aspen tree
struggles in the waning forest,
in Rocky Mountain National Park.

 

 


Skeletal Tree Patterns
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2008, 23" x 28"
Fabric collage
Playing with a no-tan process of cutting positive shapes,
then taking “out”, to create the same negative imagery,
which is featured over my clamp shibori fabric


Patternings
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2009, 40" x 36"
Fabric collage
These “no-tan” trees are a stylized depiction of the forest’s various
seasons. I played with these trees---earlier auditioned for background
 for the SURVIVOR quilt (pictured above)---where they seemed  frivolous.




Colorado Gold
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2008, 37" x 19"
Fabric collage
An abstraction of color in the aspen forest...fun to add gold foil leaves, as “gold” is Colorado’s reference
to the aspen leaves, shimmering and twirling in the fall’s sunlight.





Newspaper Rock Art
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2008, 24" x 24" (each petroglyph)
Four petroglyphs; Piecemakers 2008 exhibition, Don't Fence Me In



Aspen Sentinel
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2009, 12" x 12"
Fabric collage
SAQA 2009 Art in a Box Auction
Lone skeletal trees appear as sentinels, witnessing longevity of time,
fun to create with my delicious screen printing “wabi sabi” (beauty in imperfection).



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