2015 Size: 75” h x 45” w Price: $7500

Onto infinity. Past, present and future tents --- the interrupted lives of migrant refugees. Somber colors and dark surroundings reflect dire conditions. Relatively more colorful doorways and people lingering beyond open flaps suggest continuing light and hope within.

Materials: Machine pieced cotton, some marbelized with textile paint, woven Japanese wool and rayon fabrics; batting; texturing threads and cotton thread for the embroidery lines.

Shows: Juried into "Stories of Migration" at The Textile Museum in Washington D.C. in 2016. Also in a semi-solo show called “Mistakes, Deconstruction and Surprises” at the Osher Marin JCC in 2021 and in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2007 Size: 58"w x 56"h SOLD.

Denver Airport, a triptych. I sketched these views one night as we landed and taxied toward Denver's gorgeous, lighted terminal with its stretched fabric roof, similar to the Mountain View Amphitheater. Puddles and bright runway lights spin with the plane’s rotation. Rain on tarmac glistens.

Shows: Shows: Will be in my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). “Life Begins at 40” at the International Quilt Festival/Houston 2014; “Art in Public Places” exhibit, a solo display at The Chamber of Commerce, Roseville, CA;

2019 Size: 23” x 34” Price: $3600 “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night….” - William Blake (1794). This version is an image inspired by a Chinese woodcut of a tiger stalking in tall grass.

Materials: Cotton solids, silks, batiks, batting, threads. Machine piecing, machine-stitched texture.

Shows: Will be in the Civic Center at my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). In “AQM XIX” at Fava Gallery, Oberlin OH, 2022; in the “Momentary and Timeless” exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in 2019; published in SAQA Portfolio 2020.

2016     Size: 31"h x 23"w           Price: $950

A stepped-stone Aztec altar has solidity and strength. Within their enclosed garden courtyard at Casa Azul in Mexico City, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo displayed pre-Columbian sculptures, cacti and other plants. The altar’s heavy stone shapes remind one of the strictures, both physical and social, Frida Kahlo worked against

Frida’s home and studio in Mexico City, the Casa Azul, is in Coyoacan, an historical Spanish residential area, filled with elegant homes.

Materials: Cotton, some hand dyed, marbelized, shibbori dyed; batting, texturing and embroidered thread lines.

Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). It was exhibited in "Forty Fridas" at Jingletown Art Studios, Oakland, CA.

2014 Size: 20" x 20" Price: $750.

From a high school window, a World War II era oil tank looms. Only the German bombs were missing.

Techniques and Materials: Free-hand curve cutting, applique, machine piecing, machine quilting. Cotton and silk fabrics, cotton batting, texturing threads.

Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). Shown in the “WWII Home Front” exhibit at Voices in Cloth, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, CA, 2014, and traveled for 2 years to museums and other public locations around Northern California.

2014   20"h x 24"w   SOLD

Ironbarks are the most beautiful of all California eucalyptus trees. Dark, rough bark with deep crevasses. Red veins and red accents on the dying brown leaves. When blooming the flowers are gorgeous red fluff balls.     

Shows: Will be in the Civic Center during my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023). “American Landscape” exhibit, 2018 at the Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) in Annapolis, MD; in an online show “Favorite Things - Trees” at the Sebastapol Center for the Arts, 2021; on display at the Berkeley- Civic Center for a year in 2015-16; in "Northern California Inspirations" at San Jose Quilt Museum, 2014.                  

2010 Size: 65"h x 75"w Price: $3500

Various barns --- at dawn, morning, noon and evening. A four part composition, with shadows and shading according to the times of day.

Shows: Will be in the Portfolio of bed quilts (for sale) at my Solo Show in the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (Oct. 4-Nov.27, 2023).

2015 Size: 20"h x 24" w SOLD.

Reflected in the water, a light sculpture by Leo Villareal plays on the cables of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Many different lighting patterns flow across the four spans and re-appear in the water. Pinpoints (LEDs) are streaming in sequences, images of beauty . . . it’s the Bay Bridge Lights.

Orange lights at the horizon illuminate the working Port of Oakland. Their reflections also glow in the Bay.

2014    20"h x 24"w          Muted lighting effects on the Bridge cables tonight. Their reflections glisten in the Bay.  And at the Port of Oakland shoreline, mercury vapor lights reflect their orange glow into the sky.                                                                  SOLD.

2018 Size: 33”w x 74”h Price: $2000

Beethoven and the Professor ponder over the seasonal ingredients for their next meal. Flowing juniper trees beyond --- singing a song to the Study that Joy Built. Other ingredients: book shelves, Greek pediment and sunlight through the study windows.

Why the frowns? What distracts the two from their intellectual pursuits? My collected, all-season fruit and vegetable fabrics, including kiwis and figs, turnips and peas, glistening olives --- it’s hunger.

My husband asks: Q: What do professors think about all day in their studies? A: If food is in the frieze, is it frozen? Do I have a book about 'The Ode to Soy'? And, if I'm always inside; why the tie?

Traveling since 2019 with a Global SAQA exhibit called “Season After Season”.

2016 Size:35” h x 26” w SOLD.

Terpsichore is a muse and the goddess of dance. In Greek, her name actually means "delight in dancing". This composition takes its inspiration from that translation.

2016 Size: 33"h x 24"w Chaotic changes in fluid flow and velocity have influenced this image. Turbulence is characterized by diffusion, convection, and rapid variation of pressure and fluid flow in space and time. Part of my 'Lunar Worlds' series. Price: $650

2016    Size:  30"h x 24"w      Price: $650

Air changes Fire

Fire colors Air

           Water reflects Light.

2016 Size: 31"h x 24"w Price: $650

Spheres shatter, orbs fly apart, the sky is falling.

Waves are chopping, spiking high.

Dismay seizes the world.

"Dystopia" is part of a series called "lunar worlds". Varying colors, fabrics and quilting stitches results in mood changes. In format it relates to and contrasts strongly with my peaceful "Harvest Moon".

2018   Size: 38"h x 29" w     Price: $2700

"Five (sic) Characters in Search of an Author" as Luigi Pirandello might have said. The curtains part and the spotlights over the proscenium arch glare down on the stage, putting them in the "Limelight".

Materials:  Cotton fabrics, some hand dyes, painted art drawings (pears) by Judy Bianchi, batting, embroidered shadows and texturing threads.

1995 Size: 73”h x 56”w Hand quilted. Accepted into: "In Full Bloom 2013" exhibit at the IQF Marketplace 2013, Houston, Texas, and toured for 2 years.

Price: $1800

Hand quilting echoes leaf shapes, creates stirring wind patterns, and adds to the quality and value of this piece.

2008       Size: 52"w x 49"h   African creatures on land, in sky and sea. Hand quilted; cottons include African "trade cloth" batiks.  Embellished with many beads and a few buttons.     Price: $2400

2012 Size: 18"w x 24"h SOLD.

Opera overture, darkened house and orchestra pit, a glimmer of instruments and brilliant lighting on the sheet music. The gold curtain is still down.

On display at Berkeley Civic Center, Berkeley CA in 2015-16. Shown at "Shelter" in The Purple Pomegranate Gallery, Whitefish, MT.

2013        Size approx. 30"h x 40"w         An abstract reality, the view of San Francisco Bay as one stands on top of Indian Rock in Berkeley. It encompasses the Bay, curving around towards the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, the Golden Gate, Marin County headlands and Mt. Tam. At your feet a grid of street and garden parks appears, in steep perspective.        SOLD.
 

2014 Size: 44”h x 32”w SOLD

Ordinary alimentary settings and kitchen tools writ large. Frozen, exaggerated, each is poised on a striped tablecloth to create a fantasy foursome: five pepper blend, soup, garlic with press, and a glass of wine.

Exhibited in SAQA show "Food for Thought" and this exhibition toured internationally for 3 years.

2015 Size: 25"h x 43" w Not for Sale A California dream --- solar on every housetop. Flickering, syncopated motion across the fabric field.

2014        Size:  22"h x 18"w      Massive meteors are rare events for us; breaking up as they flare - even more unusual.  The shocking noise and force of impact are belied by its long gentle arc and the flat, boring landscape setting. A copse of trees is the only thing on the horizon.     SOLD.

2014 Size: 20" x 20" Price: $450

Made in honor of my father Ewan Watts Fletcher. Narrative piece with words reading, "My father taught radar at Harvard during the war. One night during a training exercise out at Boston Harbor, a mysterious, unauthorized submarine appeared on the screen. He always wondered ... German?"