2024 Size: 35”h x 72” wide Price: $5500

Emerging as I created this piece were memories of Paleolithic Lascaux cave paintings (c. 15,000 B.C.E.). I saw the original cave in 1963. Confronted by the images’ scale, colors, and the rough stone walls, I felt their potency. Seen in low light, the depictions of horses, mammoths, aurochs, bison, and deer are mysterious, magnificent.

2024 Size: 6” x 8” w

Small thread-drawn Auroch for a 2024 SAQA fundraiser. The Spotlight Auction takes place April 12- 20, 2024 on line. Untrimmed, it will be framed by the organizers.

2023 Size: 36”h x 34”w

As I assembled this abstract art piece, I began to see shapes and colors reminiscent of Lascaux cave paintings, that date to 16,000 to 14,000 B.C.E. (Upper Paleolithic). Seen in dark caverns by torchlight, these imaginative depictions of animals become mysterious and magnificent. An auroch, huge ancestor of our cattle, looms over the hunter.

The family says: “we named each panel after a family trip we have taken in which we have a memory that matches the panel. For dawn, we are remembering our trips to Limantour Beach in Point Reyes (thus, 'limitless. For day, we were remembering our family trips to Hawaii, to Lahaina, and a few weeks ago there was a community walk and memorial event for the fire called 'Come Walk With Us.' We thought 'walk with us' was a nice reference to that memorial and also fits our family. For night, we were inspired by watching the Perseid meteor shower while backpacking.”

2022 Size: 42”h x 74”w Price: $3500

To sever curving convex shape from concave shape, whole areas of color are segmented by narrow strips. These muscular images have a pattern of wave-like curves. Accenting their volumes in thread highlights their forms which are derived from sails or the stretched fabric used in amphitheater roofs. Also see original, my black and white version “Incurvate- Excurvate”.

Materials: Cotton solids and hand-dyes, batting, texturing thread Techniques: Freehand curve-cutting, machine piecing, home-machine quilting.

Shows: Accepted into “Abstraction: Textural Elements” a SAQA Global exhibition. In September 2024, it will premiere at the Max Berk Textile Collection, Palatinate Museum in Heidelberg, Germany and travel for three years.

2022 Size: 46”high x 70” wide. Leaves or plates overlapping in space form an interesting figure-ground image. Layering the shapes and accenting their shade/ shadows in threads highlights the physical volumes. These forms derive from the stretched fabric used in long-lived roof structures for outdoor amphitheaters. They are also reminiscent of a layered array of Richard Serra's steel plates. SOLD.

2016 Size: 21”h x 42”w SOLD.

Leaves or plates overlapping in space form an interesting figure-ground image. Layering the shapes and accenting their shade/ shadows in threads highlights the physical volumes. These forms derive from the stretched fabric used in long-lived roof structures for outdoor amphitheaters. They are also reminiscent of a layered array of Richard Serra's steel plates. Exhibited in “Connections” at Quilt Visions in San Diego until January 2019.

2023 Size: 83”high x 60” wide. Bed quilt (long twin size). Not for sale.

An abstract beauty, one of a pair, made for my Exhibit in the Mountain View Performing Arts lobby (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

Materials: Cottons, 80/20 cotton/ poly batting, texturing threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2023 Size: 79”h x 58” wide —- Bed quilt (long twin size). Not for sale.

“Quilt of illusion”, one of a pair, created for my Exhibit in Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, Oct. 3- Nov 27, 2023.

Materials: Cottons, cotton/ poly batting, texturing threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2023 Size: 77” high x 57” wide suitable for hanging or as a bed quilt (long twin size). Price: $4900

Format similar to Gee’s Bend “pants quilt”. It incorporates strip piecing, bright colors, and fabric borders to look like patches cut from pants legs from work jeans.

Materials: cottons, batting, texturing threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2019 Size: 22” x 35” Price: $2700

One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku:

“Old, silent pond

Frog jumps in

Sound of splash.”

Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including hand-dyes, shibbori-dyes, and hand painted fabrics; machine- pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021.

2019 Size: 23” h x 34” wide SOLD

One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku:

“Old, silent pond

Frog jumps in

Sound of splash.”

Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including shibbori dyes, hand painted fabrics; machine-pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In 2019, “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; “Fleeting Moments” at Art Quilts XXV, Chandler, AZ in 2020; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021.

2019 Size: 23” h x 34” wide Price: $2700

One of a triptych created for the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019, these three pieces are based on Matsuo Basho’s classic 1686 haiku:

“Old, silent pond

Frog jumps in

Sound of splash.”

Materials and Techniques: Cottons, including shibbori dyed, hand painted; machine- pieced and textured with various colored quilting threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Also in “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; Osher Marin County Jewish Community Center, San Rafael, CA, semi-solo show 2021.

2022 Size: 30” h x 47” wide Price: $3200

How will we function as we look to new ways, new identities? Create vs. reclaim. A vision of the future: new vs. old, flow vs. entrapment. Balancing stasis and change.

Materials: cottons, tie-dyed circles, indigo scraps, Japanese print; batting, texturing threads.

Life continues, and “the dance” of life, too .

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Also published in Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal and Quarterly 2022.

2022 Size: 33” h x 49” wide $3200

Featured artwork is created with digital technology by others: degraded moons are images manipulated in Photoshop and printed on fabric. Inspiration: there was a time, when I was a young visitor, the air space above the city of Pittsburgh was a gigantic rust-colored cloud. Steel mills were busy; air quality was unregulated. The rust discolored everything, even the moon in the sky as we looked up.

Materials: Cottons, dyed circles, “rusty air” like shibori dyes; batting, texturing threads.

Shows: in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Published in Patchwork Professional, a European magazine, in German, May 16, 2022.

2022 Size: 61”h (varies) x 50”w Price: $3000

This breathtaking-tornado transforms life --- clouds loom, farm fields fly in the air, sunlight shatters. Behind the corkscrew updraft tower is a narrow shaft of heavy rain and hail. Tornados are the most visually stimulating of windstorms.

Shows: Juried into “Primal Forces: Wind”, a Global SAQA exhibition opened in 2022 and will travel for three years.

2022 Size: 18”h x 39”w Price $850

Struck by a small black and white photo of a missile-damaged grain warehouse in Ukraine, I remembered it. Dark areas seemed to overcome the bright light from open holes. Torn sections of roof littered the floor. Trusses were missing or distorted by the force of the missile. Small piles of grain were yet to be salvaged. Ghosts of former wealth (to feed the world) appear in stitching.

Shows: “Ukraine in the Crosshairs” was juried into “Printed and Stitched”, a show SAQA (quilt art) and SDA (surface design) are jointly putting on to celebrate and explore the joining of the two art forms. It appears first in San Jose then travels around the Northern California/Nevada for 3 years.

2021 - Size: 10 feet x 10 feet (King size bed)

Named for the Duke Ellington jazz piano piece. There are no new shapes, colors, moods; so this one is named for my favorite piece of music. (Also see “Beds” in Menu of this website)

2021 Size: 25” high x 19”w (varies) SOLD.

During times of flood or human catastrophe, an Ark may be life-saving.

2023 Twin bed size.

Design of quilt top, composing with Japanese wrapping cloths called furoshiki. Made for my Solo Show in the Mountain View Performing Arts lobby (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2023 Twin bed size.

Design of quilt top, composing with Japanese wrapping cloths called furoshiki. Made for my Solo Show in the Mountain View Performing Arts lobby (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2021 Size: door sized: approx. 36” x 84”

Sewn during the Lockdown, using the indigo blue fabrics I had in my “stash”. Alas, I had to make a King sized bed quilt to use up the rest of my Japanese blue fabrics. See Mood Indigo.

2021 Size: 50” high x 33” wide

The ark with the Torah scroll shining at the center, curtains open. This piece can be seen as the Ark of the Covenant, carried for 40 years in the desert, and also as an abstract doorway.

Materials and techniques: Machine pieced cotton, Jordanian and Thai silk fabrics; batting; flowing texturing threads quilted by machine.

2020 Size: 36” x 52” Simple abstract design with clean contrast and movement. Silk fabrics give extra light shimmer to these deep colors. SOLD. Commissioned by Nina and Nat Shoehalter.