Charlotte was featured with an artist profile in the Aug-Sept. 2007 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. She is currently working on a book about her artwork and her development of digital fabric techniques. 

With 13 years experience in Boulder’s Open Studios, she enjoys introducing people to the world of digital cloth.  Widely exhibited and collected she is known for her rich color usage and captivating nature imagery in her quilt/digital collage artwork.  Although she has a a background in academic psychology, she has worked with art and cloth all her life as a professional dyer, weaver, clothing designer, knitter, and quilter. 

After 25 years working principally as a weaver, she began to quilt and presently concentrates on creating digital imagery printed on fabric and assembled into quilt art.

When not working in the digital darkroom or in her sunny quilting studio, Charlotte can be found with her head in a book, hiking in the mountains with her camera, listening to opera, or trying to tame her messy, leafy garden. Her experience as an artist-in-residence in Rocky Mountain National Park remains a strong influence on her work.  She was born in Chicago and raised in the Midwest.  She has lived with her husband, Ken, in Boulder, Colorado for more than thirty years.  They have a daughter, Jennifer, and a new granddaughter, Laurel.

Self Portrait

Art Statement

The inspiration for most of my work comes from the forms, colors, and patterns of the natural environment.  I am constantly stalking the evocative photograph, whether near home, hiking, or traveling. I am looking for those strong images that will become the basis for my digital transformations. 

Once I start altering and combining the images I aim to highlight abstract patterns often unnoticed in reality.  I also work with the interplay of colors.  Color makes me salivate.  My work is an exploration of color itself and how colors speak to each other.  The result is a landscape impression where reality takes on a sense of mystery but communicates the beauty of the experience. 

Printing my digital paintings on cloth allows me to take advantage of the textures and light reflectance variations of different kinds of fabrics.  The traditions of the quilter’s world (the repetition of the stitched line, the patterning of grids and block arrangements, and the resulting bas-relief effects of stitched, quilted cloth) allow me to tell a multi-layered story of my impressions of the landscape experience.

Links

SAQA - Studio Art Quilt Association
Surface Design Organization
Front Range Contemporary Quilters
Quilt Visions,San Diego

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