This is a favourite quilt, “Ebb and Flow 9: Jungle”, and was included in the Creative Force Exhibition by SAQA members at the annual quilt show in Houston last month.

As with any “favourite” quilt, I always have a slight twinge at seeing them go to new homes, but also feel greater delight that my work has appealed to someone sufficiently to part with some serious money for it. I wish the new owner and family long years of enjoyment of this piece in their home.

Much of my work over the past few years has been my interpretation of how I see the parentage of the traditional quilt over the contemporary or ‘art quilts’. I this context I see much of my work as contemporary scrap quilts which re-work some of the traditional simple patterns and shapes. It might be difficult to understand, but the Chinese Coins pattern was on my mind doing this and another in the “Ebb and Flow” series. This particular series is about the patchy nature of life, how my own Life has ebbed and flowed in so many ways as I have lived it in different parts of the world, carried along by the tide so to speak.