NEW ART QUILTS
These new ‘Story Quilts’ are created from an open ended account of human experience that inspires and guides the imagery. I thought of the creation of these narrative quilts as layered cloth vessels filled with aesthetics, experience and memory - they are ‘fabric documents’. My intent is to offer an invitation to think, respond and react - allowing one to come to their own conclusion about the meaning of what is seen.
Professionally finished with a hanging sleeve & rod, or a framed mount.
THE RUBY BEGONIA QUILTING CLUB
This art quilt paints the story of creative hands actively piecing quilts in traditional nine-patch patterns and crafting yo-yos from vintage fabrics amid bright red, ruby begonias and cherry-colored buttons in a community of quilters… LEARN MORE HERE.
Mounted and Framed - 40 × 40 inches
AFTER THE RAIN: THE PINK GARDEN OF QUILTING DELIGHT
This art quilt paints the story of a community of quilters and singing birds, dancing in the flower gardens, celebrating the renewal of springtime rainfall… LEARN MORE HERE.
Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches
AFTER THE FLOOD: QUILTERS WILL QUILT
This art quilt depicts the creative resilience quilters find in the creative process and the healing act of piecing and quilting fabric in response to the tragedies flood waters bring to our communities. Quilters, speaking through their craft, console those who suffer the traumas wrought by mountain flood waters… LEARN MORE HERE.
Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches
THE MIDNIGHT QUILTERS OF GEE'S BEND
This art quilt portrays the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama who gather in a quilting circle long after supper has been served, children put to bed, and the songs of night time crickets and birds are the only sounds heard in the darkness of night. The women of the Bend, in the midnight hours, hand quilt the remaining remnants of work clothes... LEARN MORE HERE.
Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches
JAMAICA SAYS SHE WILL
This contemporary Art Quilt was inspired by the song, Jamaica, Say You Will, by Jackson Browne, 1972. It tells the story of a young, lovely girl named Jamaica who lives by the sea watching the tides come and go and lays in the tall grass where the shadows fall; under a canopy of bright orange lilies with only a raven as a companion… LEARN MORE HERE.
Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches
"Elizabeth Garlington’s sassy, narrative quilts can hold their own anywhere."
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution