Hedda Wright - Water Works

We need water for life, but we also need water for the fun it adds. Bought a photo at a thrift store because of the perspective thinking it would be easy.  Not so much!  Changing the size really changed the proportions and I kept eliminating surf boards until it looked right to me. Otherwise this quilt would be 8 feet tall!

38" x 43"

Waterways drove settlement in every culture. The need for water for transportation and travel was vital. I was looking at some Japanese maps from the 1500s and loved the soft colors and graphics.

44" x 46"

Touring and staying in many hotels with "plastic" paneling gave Paul McCartney the idea for this song. The title had always made me think of secluded forest settings! I enjoy working on perspective and used my own wooded setting for examples.

40" x 46"

In the music industry, remixing is taking something established and making it in a new way. I looked at my "Norwegian Wood" quilt and remixed it in a much simpler method and in a nonrepresentational way. A mark of success was when a 10-year-old boy saw them side by side and said,  "Those are really the same scene!"

26" x 32"

Paul McCartney says this is meant to represent the unattainable and calls it a sad song. Maybe you will not ever reach the door at the end of the road. I can relate to that feeling having been on many long road trips in the American West.  Long vistas, open spaces with no homes or vehicles in sight, and the sense you will be driving forever!

33" x 38"

I love to work on perspective and envisioned a red barn with a black roof against a field of snow. This is my own design and I constructed it without using a ruler until I squared it up. All pieces were cut freehand by rotary cutter.

43" x 40"

My objective in a Jean Wells class was to work in an unfamiliar color group. I did but found myself using my favorite red as the background.  I used an image Jean had for my inspiration and only on the third day did I ask what the image was - the inside of a basket!

43" x 37"

Our group challenge was red, and another member and I agreed to do something red in the style of Matisse. I picked bits of several paintings although the posture of the lady bears great resemblance to a personal photo circa 1970.

25" x 30"

Peter Pan inspired this quilt, which is one of my earliest original designs.  The part that I found most challenging was to draw a pattern and of course the next most challenging part was putting it together!!!

28" x 48"

Bark by Cedric Pollett is a fantastic book and the author graciously granted me permission to use his images. This quilt originated in a Jean Wells class and all strips were free hand cut.

35" x 45"

I made the large sword fern frond for another project several years ago, but it just didn’t fit. It hung on my design wall until I got the idea to use it as part of this work for our tree retrospective.

35" x 42"