IMPROVISED WORK 2024 – 2025

Improvised work 2024 – 2025

This first work is called “Amish Restructured “. It reminds me of the Amish, their tradition of wearing brimmed hats, their children playing with faceless dolls. The bold colourful geometry, contrasts and modern colour of this piece, give a dramatic representation.

Series: Squares go Wild: Series of 4

These 4 quilts all contain my favourite square motif. Squares are supposed to behave. They’re meant to line up, stay even, follow the grid.

But in Squares Go Wild, the rules loosen.This series takes the familiar language of blocks and structure and lets it misbehave — stretch, strut, stack, interrupt, and spill over. They can vary in size. Grids wobble. Shapes push against each other like they’re trying to start a conversation. What begins as order becomes rhythm.

2025

The two works that follow are inspired by the vertical rhythm, colour shifts and subtle figure-ground tension. They were both started at a Crow Improv workshop held in October 2025

In “Where the Light Breaks” the flat cool shades allow the off centre red lines to glow. The light from behind comes flooding through creating depth and movement.

“Earth holds Light” below is altogether warmer in tone, but the flat colours enhance the glowing shapes. It reminds me of earth pigments and desert landscape with the glowing warmth of the setting sun.