Unframed Abstracts

Passion Garden

Passion Garden

Passion Garden is a lush mixed media abstract collage made from vintage kimono silks, including shibori fabric as well as Japanese papers. 

11’ x 14’ black mat

Available

Water Garden

Water Garden

The combination of greens in Water Garden form a collage made from both vintage kimono silks and Japanese papers. 

11’ x 14’ mat

Currently available at Bull City Art and Frame Company in Brightleaf Square in Durham, NC

 

Japonaise

Japonaise

Japonaise is a kimono silk and Japanese paper collage. The French influenced combination of blues, creams and purples combine in a bright yet soothing collage. 

11’ x 14” mat

Not Available

Deep Kyoto Autumn

Deep Kyoto Autumn

Deep Kyoto Autumn is a hand and machine stitched textile collage with colors of deep oranges, black and dark teal.

1'8’ x 18’ mat

Available

Shibori Montage

Shibori Montage

Shibori Montage is so named as it contains many pieces of hand tied and dyed shibori fabrics, This textile collage is entirely hand stitched using pieces of vintage kimono silks in purples, reds and blacks,

16’ x 20’ mat

Available

Wanderings

Wanderings

This mixed media piece is multi-layered, starting with a base of vintage kimono silks. Wanderings then has layers of paper, machine stitching, acrylic paints and ribbon yarns

20” x 24” mat

Available

Passion Fans

Passion Fans

This is mixed media collage is made with vintage kimono silks and small pieces of Japanese paper. Fans are a popular design element on Japanese textiles and here you can see some of the variations in fan color and appearance. Both hand stitching using Boro technique and machine stitching are part of the creative construction.

11’ x 14’ mat

Currently available at Bull City Art and Frame Company in Brightleaf Square in Durham, NC

Beyond the Grid

Beyond the Grid

A mixed media abstract piece of quilt art, Beyond the Grid is many layered, colorful and deeply textured. This piece began with Kaffe Fasset quilting cottons and morphed far beyond the grid of traditional quilting. Layers include cut up quilt blocks appliquéd onto a cotton base fabric, quilting, painting and printing with acrylics, overlays of tulle and ribbon yarns.

20” x 30” without mat

Available

Red Moon Rising

Red Moon Rising

This hand stitched textile art piece is made of traditional Japanese kimono silk designs combined in unusual ways. Blues, reds and creams are the predominant colors.

16’ x ‘20 mat

Available

Follow the Pink Ribbon Road

Follow the Pink Ribbon Road

For this textile collage, I wanted to incorporate more pastel colored pieces of kimono silk. For contrast, deeper blues were combined with the soft colors on the first layer. Pieces of tulle and the pink ribbon road were then machine stitched on top of the silk base.

Matted on White

Currently available at Bull City Art and Frame Company in Brightleaf Square in Durham, NC