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Sally Gould Wright Quilt Artist I am an art quilter and fiber artist working in Southern California. My subjects are my life and the natural world which I interpret in fabric, paint, piecing, threadwork and embellishments. I report on my quilting life, successes as well as disappointments, my educational experiences and my fellow travelers.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A glimpse into the creative life of artist Cynthia Wenslow.
I work in several media, including art quilts, mixed media collage, digital and film photography, and watercolor and acrylic painting. In fact, I find myself learning and incorporating new techniques in all these media. Ultimately, what matters most to me is the process. Once a piece is finished and I have learned what I needed to from it, I am quite happy to sell it and have it go to a new home!
I try to keep my blog mainly about art in general, and my art in particular. Subjects that I cover on my blog include: creative process; studio design and set-up; thoughts on art; calls for entries; exhibitions that I may enter or am considering entering; publication and acceptance notices; fundraisers that I donate artwork to; and many others!
My main website, to which the blog is attached, showcases a variety of my work in all the media in which I work. The content is listed by medium as I think it makes the most sense that way. Many people interested in art quilts, for example, are not really interested in photography.
I hope you enjoy my blog and stop by frequently to see what I'm up to!
I'm a Quilt Teacher,
Author, Cinematographer, Photographer and Designer, and Illustrator
with 13 children,
one husband,
10 white doves,
2 dogs and 2 cats -
as well as the most gorgeous grandchildren you have ever seen.
An internationally renowned quilter, Pam Holland’s teaching career began after a chance meeting with an American Quilter on a European bus tour. Now she shares her passion for fabric and love of the craft with thousands of people every year.
While looking for new pursuits, Pam took her first step inside a quilt shop. “It was just like walking into Aladdin’s cave. I loved the fabrics and because I had been working with fabrics for such a long time I had a passion for them.” Inspired by the designs she saw, Pam believed that she too could create quilts using the sewing and photography skills she already had. “I didn’t ever intend to become a quilter, it just evolved,” Pam admits.
Though she had completed six months of a fashion design course at Regency TAFE Pam had no formal training in sewing. “I wanted to learn everything about quilting and I had to go back to the basics as far as sewing was concerned.” So, she attended a number of classes including a sampler class (though Pam’s first sampler quilt is still sitting in her cupboard, incomplete).
From the start Pam enjoyed drawing her own appliqué designs and incorporating them into pre-existing blocks. And after a year of using other people’s designs, she yearned to use more of her own creative talents. Pam explains, “I went to a quilting group now known as Saintly Stitchers every Thursday morning and there were quilters there, older ladies who I learnt a lot from. I pretty much always took what I learnt from them and then added to it. They probably thought I was a bit of a pain. But they influenced me and taught me a lot.”
Then tragedy struck. “My daughter died from cancer and I was finding it difficult to cope. One of my son’s was getting married overseas and as I have a Japanese host daughter living in London, I decided to visit her before I went to the wedding.
“Whilst I was in England I went on one of those bus tours. On the bus I met an American lady who invited me to visit her and I did. We became firm friends…. I consider her my mentor, from then on that’s when my career as a quilter began.”
On that first trip to America in 1998 Pam took some quilts with her to show in the Minnesota Quilter’s Guild exhibition. Liseby’s Hope, which Pam made for her daughter after she died, won the Judges Award. The heavily machine pieced and appliquéd quilt The Family, which she made for her husband’s 50th birthday was awarded a first prize in the Wall hanging division.
Since then Pam says, “I’ve exhibited in the States extensively and I won the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship 2001 for International Quilt Teachers.” Many well-known American and international quilt teachers have been recipients of this scholarship, named after Jewel Pearce Patterson, the mother of IQS co-founder Karey Bresenhan.
Nominated by the students and teachers she had worked with in America, the scholarship gave Pam the opportunity to attend classes, lectures and booths at the 2001 Houston Quilt Show. Upon returning to Australia, Pam taught the techniques she had learnt. In 2002, Pam returned to Houston with an exhibition of three of her own and seven of her students quilts. Pam proclaims, “It was a huge undertaking, but after nine months of hard work, we did it and the work of some 22 Australian quilters were proudly on show in my exhibition.”
She continues, “Teaching is a absolute passion. Who needs drugs when you’ve got quilting! I absolutely love teaching and I never, ever imagined that I would.
“I really like to inspire people. There are a lot of teachers that will just teach the basics, and that’s fine. In the classes I teach I like people to look at things totally differently, to look at their surroundings, their environment, the colours in the environment and to be able to take something they see and put it in their quilt.”
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