In my work I desire to celebrate my God given joy and to create rich
and exciting feasts for the eye.

Fabric has always lured me with its colors and textures.   Each piece
of fabric is the result of someone’s creative process. It is a pleasure
to me that my building blocks of fabric are the fruit of another’s imagination.

My work is a process of gathering, tearing or cutting apart and
reassembling.  In the assembling, I am interested in tension,
movement, creating depth and the appearance of light coming from within.

The design process starts with gathering fabrics. I pile them and
leave them in view till I am certain of them. This can take weeks.
In all phases of working I find that leaving the work and returning
later gives me a fresh view point. I don’t want to force the outcome
as much as discover it.

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As I piece together the fabrics they are always under my fingertips
and in my view. The look of the piece changes with every addition
and in every position in which it falls. The texture begins to change
with the stitching and layering. No longer falling fluidly, the work
gains substance

Recently I have ventured away from the dictates of traditional
piecing/quilting for a more aggressive philosophy of “moving
forward”. Conventional methods stress technical precision which
translates going back, over and over, till the work is technically
perfect. I now add to, change direction, sew over, or whatever it
takes to go forward, not backward.                                 

                                         Chris