My quilt, “Ripples on the Rio Grande” has been accepted into a traveling exhibit for next year. The selected quilts were submitted by artists from Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Texas. The opening will be April 6, 2018 to May 12th at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, NM. My first traveling quilt!
Beautiful inspirations from our trip to New Mexico for the Balloon Fiesta. Weather was great and we went to Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Chaco Canyon, Sky City and Madrid. Los Poblanos is a lavender farm, retreat and restaurant with a charming gift shop. Bought all things lavender and some truffle salt. Yum! I am refreshed and newly inspired to create art work.
Yes! My quilt called “Downstream” was accepted for exhibit at the Estes Park Art Center. Doing the happy dance!
Hoping to be accepted into this year’s exhibit at the Estes Park Art Center. Also hoping I don’t jinx it!
I have been selected to show 2 quilts in “Diversity” at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The one shown below has eco-printed fabric, machine and hand stitching and shows portrait images from the Library of Congress. These photos have no copyright restrictions on them. This one is called “More the Same”.
Here is my latest. I hand painted the background and used my long arm quilting machine to hand-guide stitches vertically to depict water flowing over a mossy river bed. Lots of color and texture!
Below is a detail shot of Gathering Moss:
My quilt called “The Chosen Path” has been juried into the Reflections exhibit opening June 9th at Red Rocks Community College. There were 151 art quilts submitted by 45 artists and 45 were chosen to be in the exhibit. Here is a detail shot of machine quilting and hand stitching.
Here is the full quilt with commercial cotton, stamped and painted canvas, silk and organza. The “rocks” are hand appliqued on the surface.
This is the 2nd in my Lichen series. I have used hand painted cotton as the background, which includes stamping and brush strokes. I have hand stitched this and pieced it with a wide blue silk border. I have appliqued felt and painted dryer sheets to create texture. I also couched fibers on top and machine quilted it. The quilt is not quite finished. I still need to put a facing type binding on it and add a hanging sleeve. Hmm, after looking at the image of the full quilt, I need to add some more couched fibers. Then I can finish it up. Below, it looks a bit like cotton candy. It is really not this pastel!
This shows the whole quilt.
Just finished my newest quilt called “Lichen Emerging”. It shows lots of texture on silk. I have hand and machine stitched on eco-dyed linen, adding wool felted pieces, recycled wool sweaters, yarn and threads. The decorative threads were couched on top of the quilted silk.
Sue Lewis Art 