26” x 24”

3 Dimensional fiber art piece from my Eclipse series.

44” x 30”

Improvisational piece depicting the concept of Einstein’s “spooky action,” where colors call to each other across the universe.

26” x 22”

Improvisational piece inspired by the sudden profusion o day lilies in my front yard.

54” x 64”

Constructed improvisationally, Mulberry has a whimsical wonky feel. A spring-like fresh and tart flavor, like mulberries.

64” x 64”

Glaciers move ponderously over the landscape, pushing stones and soil southward until they finally melt. During the Ice Age, they reshaped the land. Sadly, more of them have melted for the last time and will never return. This is my memorial to those ancient carvers of the planet.

16” x 27”

Triangles is another work in my Eclipse series, where quilted pieces are joined together to make geometric constructions.

30” x 30”

Orange is a 3-dimensional wall hanging, quilted and bound, separate but intact, a whole surrounding a hole. Starkly geometric, an orange uroborous, both round and square. It cannot be explained. It has no elemental meaning. It is purely abstract, so it will be called Orange.

21” x 23”

Copper has so many shades and textures. Copper wires, copper pennies, copper skies at sunset. From skintones to metal, bright brassy highlights to deep rust, copper is outside the color spectrum - a rebellious color.

Capricious Copper is an off-beat, improv, almost-plaid that breaks all the rules. A little bit geometric, a little bit ombre, a splash of metallic that glows.

24” x 38”

Peaks shows off the angular momentum of the half rectangle triangle shape. Ombre prints create the illusion of depth and space, and the angled quilting moves the eye around the image. Shapes emerge from the background to shimmer, then fade to background. The design is deliberately formal to emphasize the beauty of the pure geometry, while the matchstick quilting makes it soft and touchable.

The Peaks quilt pattern can be found in my Etsy store.

20” x 23”

Escape

Escape begins in a dark world of closed, isolated bubbles. When freed, they radiate into waves, bursting in all directions. The metallic fabrics shimmer and extend to the edges. Reflecting an Art Deco esthetic, the emergence into the light is framed with upward reaching arches.

10” x 22”

Improvisational piece created on a whim with added buds and roots emerging in the spring.

67” x 86”

Jon’s City is a gift to my brother, an extraordinary jazz pianist and composer living and making music in NYC. The quilt evokes the soaring skyscrapers and includes some of his favorite things, including his albums of original tunes.

22” x 27”

My first improvisational quilt, constructed with no design in mind, but built up one element at a time.

32" x 32"

Square Wave describes an oscillating wave that alternates between two fixed amplitudes. It converts an analog sine wave into a digital on/off switch.

Square waves can also appear suddenly in the ocean when two swells intersect and cause a grid of waves, strong and dangerous for swimmers and boaters.

This abstraction combines an apparent square with an embedded curve, emphasized by the quilting. Useful electrical inverter or hazardous seas?

Is it a square or a wave?

48” x 36”

On the way to building this improvisational village, some of the houses became ghosts, receding into the distance. Villages, like relationships, can be ephemeral.