MORE FROM "THE ART OF THE QUILT" (Cheri)

I kept a couple of the quilts from the exhibit that we attended yesterday for a separate post, as they deserve close attention.

On Colorways by Vicki, the artist, Susan Price, said this about her inspiration:

"This quilt honors my father who fought in World War II,
but he didn’t talk about it. I knew he was in North Africa and Sicily
but wasn’t interested enough to ask questions when I was younger.
When I was 24, he died at age 55 of heart disease.
Fast forward 42 years to 2019 when my mother passed away.
While going through her things, we found artifacts from his time
in military service. They shed some light on his experience
but also left other questions unanswered. A brief journal
recounts basic training and his first combat in Sicily.
What happened after that? What were his experiences
in Germany and France? Where and when was he wounded?
How did he meet the Barbera family? I wish he was able
to fill in the missing pieces of those untold stories.
I used the Barrier Island gradient as background and binding
and love the way the colors tint the photo transfers done with
Transfer Artist Paper. Other techniques include
photos printed on ink jet fabric and text transfers done with
textile medium on a cheesecloth substrate."

Here are some detail shots from the quilt:

Colorways by Vicki also notes:  "You can get to know Susan and her art/business partner, Elizabeth Gibson, through their blog, PGFiber2Art and their Etsy Shop, where they sell beautiful thermofax screens for your art. I have many of their screens in my collection and they also sell custom screens."

I took a class in which we used some of these techniques (text and photos on fabric, using hand-dyed cheesecloth).  I need to - want to - finish that quilt!

Here is another quilt that Ms. Price exhibited at the show in Virginia:

and a detail shot:

The colors were muted, but I wish that these pictures did the quilt justice!