Reflections
110cm square
2022
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* machine quilted
* signed and dated on reverse
Above: progress shots. Click on an image to expand.
So many blessings…
103cm square
2024
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* machine quilted
* signed and dated on reverse
Above: So many blessings - detail. Click on the image to expand.
Let the rainforest sing
85cm square
2018
sold to The International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
“Loved every piece. Could sit here for hours feeling the colours sink in.”
Let the rainforest sing #2
99cm square
2024
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* machine quilted
* signed and dated on reverse
Let the waters teem #1
83cm square
2018
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* stretched on a canvas stretcher
* split batten wall fastening
* signed and dated on reverse
“Wonderful. These quilts will never date. They express things which are timeless and universal.”
Let the waters teem #2
83cm square
2018
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* stretched on a canvas stretcher
* split batten wall fastening
* signed and dated on reverse
Above: alternative views. Click to expand.
Reaching out: Tentative connections in an age of pandemic
82cm square
2022
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* machine quilted
* signed and dated on reverse
“Just exquisite... I love the glow coming from your work.”
Untitiled
sold
Galaxy
88cm square
2018
sold
Sequence #1
75cm square
2018
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* tie quilted
* stretched on a canvas stretcher
* signed and dated on reverse
Sequence #2
75cm square
2016
* 100% cotton fabric
* 100% cotton batting
* calico backing
* tie quilted
* stretched on a canvas stretcher
* signed and dated on reverse
Most of my work has a geometric basis and is built around an application of the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. The Fibonacci sequence takes its name from Leonardo Fibonacci, a medieval Italian scholar. In the sequence each number is the sum of the two numbers before it:
0 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 1 + 2 = 3 2 + 3 = 5 3 + 5 = 8 5 + 8 = 13 8 + 13 = 21 13 + 21 = 34 and so on, ad infinitum…
The relationship of any number in the sequence to the one before it underpins the concept of the Golden Mean Ratio, an idea widely used by architects and others seeking to create objects that have aesthetic and psychological appeal. Fibonacci numbers are found everywhere in the natural world - in cauliflowers and pineapples, the shells of snails and turtles, the number of petals on flowers, the seed heads of sunflowers, pine cones, hurricanes, spiral galaxies…