Collections: Sara Sharp

SARA SHARP - Austin, Texas

Sara creates "art quilts" (fabric collages) by combining both commercial fabrics and those she has dyed, painted, or printed herself.  Being a lifelong birder, she often uses her own bird photographs as ideas for her art quilts.  After many layers of fabric are secured in place, she may embellish her focal point with layers of many colors of thread in a blending technique known as "thread painting". Then a hand-guided free-motion quilting is applied, and a sleeve is added to the back to hold a rod or slat, from which the quilt may be hung on the wall.