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Lecture - Two Questions, Many Answers: Building My Quilt Repertoire

When people look at my quilts, they often ask two questions: Where do you get

your ideas? And, How do you make it? In fact I ask myself the same two

questions over and over with each quilt I make. The questions don’t really

change over time, but my answers change and develop with each piece I make.

In this talk I illustrate two different answers to the question: where do you get

your ideas? And I illustrate four different answers to the question: how do you

make it?

Lee Sproull is one the the founding members of the Northampton MQG. For more information about Lee visit her website.

Artist Statement

I make abstract art using quilt-making tools, materials, and methods. I paint with

solid color fabric that I cut and sew into large swoops and forms. I create

pointillist texture by combining small pieces of printed fabrics embedded within

larger compositional forms.

A quilt, most simply defined, is three layers of cloth sewn together. My work

explores ideas about the layered constructs of perception and meaning. I work

in black and white to show the layered interplay of lines and shapes, figure and

ground without the distraction of color. I work in color because color adds its own

vocabulary of emotion to perception and meaning.

I live in the woods in western Massachusetts with long views of the Connecticut

River Valley. My work is inspired by the colors and figures that surround me.

Branches are a continuing fascination, both as figure and as metaphor. They

represent choice points, pathways, alternatives, divergences. Much of my recent

work embodies concepts and shapes of branching.

August 2021

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