Article: Durham's Herald Sun Newspaper

There is a very nice review of ARTQUILTSillumiations in
 Durham, North Carolina's paper on May 14th.

I was surprised to see my quilt, Soar III featured.

Local artists Jana Lankford and Jenny Williams were also interviewed and quoted.

They were two of the instrumental women, along with Ann Flaherty, that made this exhibit happen. Great job ladies!

ARTQUILTSilluminations review

ARTQUILTSilluminations

The 8th Annual PAQA-South International Juried Quilt Exhibition

at the Durham Arts Council
Allenton & Semans Galleries

March 26 – June 7, 2010

Curated by

Jan Ru Wan

Works by:

Pamela Allen

Wen Redmond

Jenny Williams/Jennifer Fouke

Laura Gaskin

Lynne Harrill

Christine Predd

Marcia DeCamp

Barbara Watler

Eileen Williams

Lyric Kinard

Cathy Kleeman

Sherry Kleinman

Gerrie Congdon

Kathleen Loomis

Denny Webster

Diane Wright

Nancy Lassiter

Debbie Langsam

Beth Carney

Janet Windsor

Gloria Hansen

Paula Swett/Cathy Stechschulte

Ann Flaherty

Jana Lankford

Sally Wright

Jeanelle McCall

Jeanette Thompson

Hsin-Chen Lin

Diane English

My personal favorites include:

Best of Show

Red Bioluminescence

by Barbara Watler

An almost monochromatic color scheme yet the value contrast makes it luminous. Those hand worked zig-zag stitches are amazing in their frenetic motion - almost shivering in your field of vision.

Sunset Composition

Gerrie Congdon

Simplicity of composition. A complementary color scheme yet no screaming loud brightness. The contrast of hand stitches next to solid machine lines.

Sticks and Stones

by Diane Wright

The beauty of the work is the the details. I love the repetition of the the stone shapes in the cloth, in the machine stitched line, in the hand worked knots. All of them work together to lead the eye on a journey as the texture draws you in.

Blinded by the Light

by Beth Carney

Line, both broken and continuous holds all of my fascination here. The dense stitching flattens out the texture of the artwork but brings a continuous vertical feeling to a rhythmically irregular piece. That and I tend to love subdued color scheme.