My basic design component is circles and waves. These are placed in a square composition and forms the frame of the quilt. The quilt creates an intense sense of movement and this is done by the use of colour. Colour is always an intergral part of form itself. The richness of the colour and texture speaks of the Africa I live and work in
This is my interpretation of the movies in the years gone by. The colourwaves moves all over the quilts surface. These waves symbolizes the reels of film interwoven in the composition. The small faces is the actors and the framed landscape the set design where these movies were shot. I used embroidery to enhance the colour statement. A 3D concept is built into the quilt overlapping the formal frame
Exhibited at ICQAfrica 2012
Also displayed at the 18th European Patchwork Meeting in ST Marie aux Mines, France in September 2012
Published in Stitches magazine issue 30 – Oct/Nov 2012
This quilt is composed as an landscape. I personalized the quilt whit three embbroided figures which is layered quilting.
Although I am influenced by an European artist, the content of the quilt is African and so is my colours. The quilt awakened an intense sense of color – texture and light and this adds a new dimension to my personal statement. There is an universe within the quilt which symbolize ” a famly portrait”
on display – Michael’s on Park, Clanwilliam
Size 199 x 166
2nd price at SA National Quilt Festival Stellenbosch 2011
World Quilt New England
The Premier of the 2011 World Quilt Competition XXI
Manchester, New Hampshire
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Oaks-Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania
Pacific International Quilt Festival
Santa Clare-San Francisco Bay Area, California
World Quilt Florida
Clanwilliam Museum August 2019
Hilton Art Festival 2015
The Story
I believe we are born is a specific “circle of life”. In life there is challenges (triangles) that came
across and it is for everyone to decide for him/herself to stay in their comfort zones of to move on
to the next circle/level.
You are responsible for your own decisions
Machine quilted, painted, hand embroided,
This quilt portrays nature’s full colourblast on our senses. I try to avoid symmetry especially the stagnant kind. The heart of the season is captured by the colour which is directly taken from nature. The trees, grass and leaves portray movement in my composition.
Within the sky are planets. These are little studies in their own right. The branches of the trees from the linear design in contrast to the roundness of the planets.
The edges of the fabrics are treated differently, some precisely pieced , some left to fray – But always with great thought.
The earth is in a desperate state of pollution. This quilt is an exploration to listen to the cries of our county/planet. A fresh wave towards the planet is symbolized in the quilt with five blocks. In the blocks I use embroidery and different techniques to portray the waves.
The “new earth” is done in layered quilting which also symbolizes a new beginning in nature and in thought.
The four framed flowers in the blocks, which grounds the planet is for better things to come. The new planet will be filled with trees, clouds and fresh rivers. This is the only circle in the quilt which has its own living echo system
