Louise's Artist Statement

I love color. My travels to Third World countries where the native dress is colorful has influenced my color sense. I also love cutting up pieces of fabric and sewing them back together. I think it is form of escapism from the everyday world. I have sewn since high school and started quilting 20 years ago. Classes with Nancy Crow, who I have studied with since the beginning, got me off to a good start. From her I learned to work with no patterns, free cutting, everything sewn in.

I use cotton fabric, some my own hand dyes, some with changes to the surface by stamping, shibori (Japanese tie dye), or photo transfer. My quilts are machine pieced and quilted.

Louise's Notable Achievements

Louise's award winning work has been collected and exhibited extensively. Her work is held in many private collections in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, as well as hanging in the Skagit Valley Hospital. She has shown regionally, nationally, and internationally, notably in several of the Brazilian Patchwork Design exhibits in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Most recently, Louise was invited by Nancy Crow to show her work in Color Improvisations II which will tour a number of sites in Europe throughout 2016-17. In January 2016 one of Louise's quilts was hung at Palmer Station the U.S. Research facility in Antarctica.

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