Fauna

The image is visually divided along a diagonal plain. The upper left resulting triangle is predominately a crazy pieced red sky with a bat swooping down towards the village below. The village is the lower right section. It could have been built with children's building blocks. The walls are yellow with blue windows, representing the colors of Ukraine.

Bat Sh*t Crazy

September 2022

35 1/2" H x 46" W

$3,500

Close-up image of a thread painted bat. The bat has protruding eye teeth and a white Z's emblem is seen on each wing. The bat is set against chaotic red crazing piecing.

The horror of learning Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine had me visualizing Putin as a vampire. Several days into designing a traditional portrait of Putin sporting a black satin cape, smirking an evil grin with his eye teeth protruding, I heard the phrase “Bat Shit Crazy”. I had a eureka moment and the quilt seemed to design itself.

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Bee Alert

April 2017

50" H x 30" W

$3,000

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The horror of waking up on November 9, 2016 to learn Donald Trump was elected our 45th President has only been compounded with each Cabinet appointee. Every time another appointee’s name was made public and his/her inappropriateness for the job was brought to light, I cringed. It felt as though Trump was gleefully poking a Satan’s pitchfork at a hive of evil bees. What happened to Obama’s message of hope? Then it struck me, aren’t we experiencing the lesson from Pandora’s box? I choose to depict the nightmarish world with stinging bees against the flames of Hell, with a lone bee in gay banner stripes still standing proud in the hive.

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Night Vision

January 2015

50" H x 40" W

$4,000

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Poison dart frogs sport vibrant colors in order to alert their predators to their danger. They are tiny, no bigger than a pinky fingernail. None are neon hot pink, except in my imaginings.

Image of two oysters, nestled perpendicular to each other against a sand colored background

Nestling Oysters

September 2013

37" H x 39" W

$3,000

Close up image of the juncture of the two oyster shells highlighting the hand painted shadow and fern like seaweed

Nestling Oysters is the fourth artwork comprising the Beach Series. The series depicts different imagined scenes of walking along a beach and spying shells. With Nestling Oysters two overlapping shells are zeroed in on.

Image of three oyster shells on beach on the edge of the surf

Oyster Bay

July 2013

24" H x 36" W

$1,750

Close up of two of the upper portionof two of the oyster shells and the surf beyond

Oyster Bay is the third artwork comprising the Beach Series. Instead of thread painting the shells as in the prior work, the oyster shells were created off quilt and then stitched in place. The shells were given depth and staining through hand painting.

 

Image of canada geese standing on a frozen lake

Reflection

April 2013

22" H x 33" W

Private Collection

Detail of a a grouping of geese showing the detailed hand painting and intricate free motion quilting

A picture taken of geese standing on a frozen lake inspired Reflection. It is not meant to be an accurate representation although it is a representational piece. In the photograph there were more than twice the number of geese depicted in the artwork and the ice was a slate gray.

 

Image of a beach littered with shells , individually thread painted on the artwork

Shore's Edge

March 2013

30" H x 47" W

$2,500

Detail includes several thread painted oyster shells nestled amongst gold colored beads

Shore’s Edge is the second in a series of work exploring ways to depict shells on a beach. In Shore’s Edge the ocean is added, including the leading edge of a wave complete with foam and spray.

Image of a grid of pale blue, foam green and sand colored backgrounds with thread painted shells and beach showcased on each grid

Beach Stroll

December 2012

33" H x 45" W

$2,600

Detail from Beach Stroll zeroing in on the a few shells, the bias strip grid and beadwork

The idea for Beach Stroll evolved over decades of pondering the works of Piet Mondrian, Andrew Wyeth and an embossed nautilus shell created by Gwyned Trefethen’s sister-in-law, Cheryl Eisner. It took a year of focusing on practicing free motion quilting and another year of doing a weekly drawing assignment to be able to execute Beach Stroll with confidence.

In the foreground are neon tetra and clown fish swim through seaweed against a color nautalis shell. The palette is a vibrant turquoise and orange.

Poseidon's Lair

May 2011

49" H x 32" W

$2,750

Closeup shows the thread painted clownfish, as well as how the background quilting motif reflects the outline of seaweed.

An invitational to create a piece for Fiber Revolution's touring exhibition Fragmentations was the impetus for Poseidon's Lair. It is an amalgam of childhood fascinations with the passions of today's artist. Poseidon's Lair is an exploration of the Fibonacci Sequence through a nautilus shell, thread painting, free form curved piecing and the layering of textures and shapes.

Image of a spider googling a fly on her web. The web spans a faceted dew drop of pastel primary colors.

Hanging By A Thread

January 2005

47" H x 28" W

$3,000

Close-up of the fly with veined gossamer wings and jade green eyes

Creating a quilt is a journey. Each whisper from the muse leads away from the planned destination. It requires faith to follow the muse. Hanging by a Thread’s original concept was to pay homage to M. C. Escher. It was to be a geometrical quilt in muted and saturated hues. The spider and fly were not part of the original intention. Trust in the muse allowed for modification, reinvention and eventually the ability to slice off half the quilt. Only then did the muse share the metaphor of the quilt, a relationship dance of patience and choice.

Image of a peacoci with a royal blue body and yellow eye and rear.

Color Guard

September 2002

36" H x 25" W

$1,500

This image zeros in on the peacock's golden eye and hand beaded crown.

The psychedelic paisley print in the eyes of the peacock’s feather was the 2002 Hoffman Challenge fabric. Color Guard was selected to tour with one of the 2002 challenge exhibtions.

Persona

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Adoration

June 2013

35" H x 35" W

$2,450

Detail image of infant's head.

The idea for Adoration comes from a love of Madonna and Child paintings made during the Renaissance. The image is an artistic interpretation of a photograph taken by the artist’s husband, Dana B. Eagles, of the artist holding their first grandchild.

Image of a woman lounging on the beach dreaming of skiing

Summer Dreams

September 2003

24" H x 24" W

Not Available

Close up of the woman, where a hat, sunglasses and sitting in a lounge chair

Summer Dreams was made for the Rhododendron Needlers Quilt Guild summer challenge of 2003. The object was to incorporate the “ugly” fabric selected for the challenge. Here it is used for the beach towel and cartoon style bubbles.

The message of the quilt is that even when we are in the most idyllic of places we often long to be somewhere else.