Category: TEXTILES

TEXTILES_00056_Rise Up!_2020

Rise Up!
FUSED Series
fused, whole cloth
16-1/2″w x 27-3/4″h
2020
QUILTS, 2020, fused, whole cloth, red, orange, black, white
 

Artist Statement:

When you look at a flower head on, the leaves flow out from the center. But if you look the flower from the bottom then the leaves flow out and up from the center. Thus the name Rise Up!. This quilt is hand-painted with Derwent dye blocks and drawn on with fabric-marked Kona cottons. Making this soulful floral quilt was always in the plan. Unlike other quilters, I’ve waited a long time to do florals; always waiting for that unique way of looking at a subject that so many have looked at and covered. Rise Up! is appropriate for these times as we seek new looks, new perspectives to disappointingly familiar scenarios. Constantly creating, praying and rising up to elevate myself and the world around me.

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TEXTILES_00064d_Leveling Up_2022

Leveling Up
MOSAICS Series
fused
16-1/2″w x 27-3/4″h
Fused commercial cottons
2022
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2022, fused, yellow, orange, brown
 

Statement:
The 4th work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Leveling Up represents the ascension in one’s personal life. Leveling up is the elevation to reach the next chapter, next stage, next phase, next plateau in one’s existence. This is a personal exercise for each human being and means something different to each one.

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TEXTILES_00064c_Crossing Roads_2022

Crossing Roads
MOSAICS Series
fused
15″w x 30-3/4″h (each piece)
Fused commercial cottons
2022
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2022, fused, yellow, orange, brown
 

Statement:
The 3rd work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Crossing Roads is the personal discovery of the terrain of life. Like traveling over different terrains, life’s journey consists of crossing many roads that are full of turns, ups, downs, stops, starts, rough patches and smooth ones.

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TEXTILES_00064b_Seeing My Way Out of Blue_2021

Seeing My Way Out of Blue
MOSAICS Series
fused
16-1/4″w x 20″h
Fused commercial cottons
2021
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2021, fused, yellow, gold, blue
 

Statement:
The 2nd work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Seeing My Way Out of Blue represents the eventual transformation of a human being out of the muck and mire of life’s visceral levels into a deeper, psychic realm of existence.

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TEXTILES_00064a_Searching for Inner Code_2021

Searching for Inner Code
MOSAICS Series
fused
13-3/4″w x 20-1/4″h (each piece)
Fused commercial cottons
2021
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2021, fused, brown, black
 

Statement:
The first work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Searching for Inner Code represents the inner work that every person goes through to discover their own “code”.

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TEXTILES_00063_Ebony Sons Rising_2021

Ebony Sons Rising
PIECED Series
fused
18″w x 24″h
Fused commercial cottons and rayons. Metallic threads.
2021
QUILTS, Pieced Series, 2021, fused, black-white, grey, oranges, burgundy
 

IMAGE_ANGELA-HEATH_Ebony-Sons-Rising

Statement:

Ebony Sons Rising honors our black men, their struggles living in America and their enduring strength and resolve to rise.  This piece follows one of my studio tenets which is –
 
BENEVOLENCE
Webster’s dictionary defines benevolence as “the quality of being well meaning; kindness.”  
I aim to create art primarily to promote awareness and enlightenment of mankind.
 
While my artistic voice has historically been abstract, I realize that stories need to be told, candles need to be held up and lights need to shine.  To that end, I continue to strive in letting my unique light shine to tell the stories that enlighten and uplift mankind.

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QUILTS_0057-2_Midst of Chaos Quilts_2020_Behind the Scenes

Midst of Chaos MNI-QUILT SERIES
COVID
QUILTS, Covid Series, 2020, pieces, wholecloth, blue, white, bleached copper kona cotton
Covid Series
2020

Abstract discharged fabric. Original design representing unity in the foreground with chaotic shapes in the background. Quilted with cotton and metallic threads.

Top Row, from left to right:
1) The Long Road
2) Sticking Together
3) Finding the Way

Bottom Row, from left to right:
4) When Paths are Clear and Unclear
5) Unity in the Midst of Chaos

Midst of Chaos Quilt collage

Midst of Chaos QUILT – Behind the Scenes 2
Midst of Chaos QUILT – Behind the Scenes 3
Midst of Chaos QUILT – Behind the Scenes 1
Midst of Chaos QUILT – Behind the Scenes 4

QUILTS_0057-1_Midst of Chaos Quilt Series_2020

Midst of Chaos MNI-QUILT SERIES
COVID
QUILTS, Covid Series, 2020, pieces, wholecloth, blue, white, bleached copper kona cotton
Covid Series
2020

Abstract discharged fabric. Original design representing unity in the foreground with chaotic shapes in the background. Quilted with cotton and metallic threads.

Top Row, from left to right:
1) The Long Road
2) Sticking Together
3) Finding the Way

Bottom Row, from left to right:
4) When Paths are Clear and Unclear
5) Unity in the Midst of Chaos

Midst of Chaos Quilt collage

Midst of Chaos MINI-QUILT Series