Small details are always grabbing my attention. It might be the shape of a tree that has lost its leaves, pine needles swirled into patterns, or just a random shape that I notice in a magazine ad. I want to remember those details for myself and to show them to other people--look at how beautiful this is! That is where my quilts begin.

I work the detail, whatever it is, into a quilt design several ways--with drawings, photographs and tracings of photographs, paper collages, or small studies made with fabric scraps. I don’t know what the resulting quilt will look like when I start a project (sometimes I think I do, but I am usually wrong). Quilting, as a medium, with its layers of fabric and stitch, suits my design style since I also build my ideas in layers.

My quilts are complex and subtle. The images are often ambiguous: combinations of geometric and organic lines, varying depth of field, and many surface textures. I make them to say--this is our complicated world. They don’t try to shock or teach the viewer. I offer them as pointers to inspiration and wonder.

The Art Gallery at the Nashua Public Library showcases mostly NH artists on a bimonthly basis, with approximately 6 exhibits per year. The goal of the gallery is to enrich the community with local art.

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If you are interested in showing your work at the gallery, sign up to receive an email when we have our next call for artists, usually in the fall for the upcoming year. The Art Gallery is located on the lower level of the library, near the entrance to the Theater and Chandler Wing.