Small Joys: Launch 2pm -4pm Saturday 9 August

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness” Pearl S Buck.

This collection of my work represents a period of my life attempting to catch

and hold small joys by working on and growing quilts.

A few of the quilts were made when my work was represented in major quilt

shows, nationally and internationally, but the main body of work was created post

trauma when a raw need for meaning drove the imagining and forming of these

quilts.

I enjoy traditional quilting ,-carrying the fire so to speak, and fragmenting the

traditional into contemporary and abstract . The challenge of quilting is like life :

joining all the scraps of fabric which often turns out not how you expect, but

worthy anyway.