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NC Botanical Garden
54" x 54"
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Dawn Redwood at Duke Gardens
30" x 60"
Joseph Carey Merrick
26" x 36"
Ann Harwell
Email: Qltimitry@aol.com
Artist's Statement: My quilts are to communicate ideas, express feelings, tell stories and encourage the progress of anti-entropy coalescing order from disorder. I especially want to unite and enhance diverse fabric designs and colors with intricate piecing and quilting on fabric design lines. Each piece of fabric is individually precision cut using individually designed plastic templates. Depending upon the complexity and size, there are usually about 2000 pieces of fabric per quilt. My work is machine pieced and hand quilted using cotton fabric, batting and thread. These quilts each require around 400 hours of loving attention to detail.
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Joseph Carey Merrick 26" x 36" |
Hale-Bopp / Fractured Symmetry
46" x 51"
Hale-Bopp has just won an award in Houston! We're
waiting to see which ribbon it won.
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Balance the Scales of World Justice!
62" Octagon
This quilt is a plea for world justice. The doves of Peace hold the Scales of Justice, because without them, peace is rendered an impossible goal. The same scale must weigh us all. Our children must be educated so that everyone may share the benefits of freedom and the ability to express this freedom through art, music, and literature. The ongoing societal experiments of egalitarianism and libertarianism confirm the need for justice to be ever-present in our thoughts. Liberty, equality, unity, faith and love are only words on paper (or, in this case, fabric) without the presence of justice. Can we be indivisible in our striving to balance the scales? Detail
Hurricane Fran / Chaotic Symmetry
54" x 54"
My community was cut off from technological luxuries and basic necessities for 11 days. We used pond water to flush toilets and used the less available bottled water for drinking. As I sat quilting, watching the ladybugs crawl across my windows, I was thankful that I was spared the destruction of my home.
I wanted to communicated concepts using fabric that I couldn't express in words. There was a beauty and order in one of the most chaotic and powerful forces of nature. The profound quiet of a community without electricity, the shocking wonder of huge trees fallen in orderly array, the blossoming forth of formerly hibernating insects and sun starved flowers urgently inspired this quilt.
That inspiration became a mission for my work. To communicate ideas, express feelings, tell stories and create order from chaos; to unite and enhance diverse fabric designs and colors with intricate piecing and hand quilting on fabric design lines. Detail1 and Detail 2
Sunrise on Ocean Isle, North Carolina, USA
54" x 54"
This quilt is a visual representation of my childhood family reunion site. It is childhood memories that I have captured with fabric. Memories that can not be recreated because many treasured family members are gone and can never turn to Ocean Isle. This is what I remember about Ocean Isle of the 1950's and 60's. The center of the quilt features fresh water flora and fauna in the swampy area where we went crabbing and fishing. The egrets nest with eggs is in the center of the grassy paths stretching through the dunes onto the beach. Only a few of the varieties of the thousands of shells that we cousins gathered are represented. We all rode the waves with our fathers and older cousins who allowed us a little more dangerous freedom than our mothers and aunts on the beach. Occasionally we glimpsed marine wildlife in and under the waves. My Uncle Tom Byrum never missed the sunrise on Ocean Isle that you can see beyond the waves. Detail 1 and Detail 2
More of Ann's Quilts:
Hurricane Fran's Bug Eye
40" x 40"
DetailFabric Farandole
34" x 34"
DetailMesmerize
40" x 40"
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