Small Joys.
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness” Pearl S Buck.
This collection of my work represents a period of my life attempting to catch
and hold small joys by working on and growing quilts.
A few of the quilts were made when my work was represented in major quilt
shows, nationally and internationally, but the main body of work was created post
trauma when a raw need for meaning drove the imagining and forming of these
quilts.
I enjoy traditional quilting ,-carrying the fire so to speak, and fragmenting the
traditional into contemporary and abstract . The challenge of quilting is like life :
joining all the scraps of fabric which often turns out not how you expect, but
worthy anyway.