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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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