Art Quilts: China Memories
China memories
26.5 X 20 inches (67x 50CM)
Photo transfer, glue transfer process, monoprinting, crayon transfer, silk, cotton and paper, machine stitched.
$ 650 (USD)
(Includes Insurance and Postage)
This quilt, China Memories, was made in April this year for the Gold Coast Quilters Challenge, the theme being "Travel".
China memories was inspired by our visiting China in 2007, specifically Beijing and Shanghai. The Mutianyu section of the great wall we climbed being the inspiration for this quilt. The textures of the wall, as well as the colors and patterns of the doors, stalls, buildings, fabrics and life in general, in Beijing and Shanghai adding colour and movement.
Details of the quilt
Chris Parfitt, a fellow Aussie Blogger has said she would like to see the real quilts. Okay a little difficult to do this online, yet. I do have a solution of how you can see the real thing - Skype + video. Cool I thought, so here is the deal my Skype ID is simple: suziecheel and you can contact me via my contact form or email me
Quilt Pages
Patina Colourscapes 11 Beyond The Lines About Time Landform
Windows on The World Golden Glimpses Shifting Perceptions
Art Quilt: Beyond Our Lines
Beyond Our Lines
39 x 47 inches (100cm x 120 cms
Transfer and monoprint on silk and cotton, collage techniques, machine and hand stitched.
$1600 USD
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This is what I wrote about this quilt when I made it for The Gold Coast Quilters Biennial Show at The Gold Coast Art Gallery.
My quilt is called Beyond The Lines, initially inspired from the poem Beyond Our Lines (text below),
I was walking on the beach when I first started to formulate the idea for this quilt.
It was also one of my earlier Beach Inspiration posts , you can read about here.
If you look “beyond the lines” you can sense greater complexities. mysteries and adventure.
The quilt is made from hand printed silk and cotton, some pieces were stitched by hand, some by machine and then printed over.
This was a highly focussed activity, sleep was a secondary consideration. It is amazing how a deadline gets me so focussed and the task completed.
Chris Parfitt, a fellow Aussie Blogger has said she would like to see the real quilts. Okay a little difficult to do this online, yet. I do have a solution of how you can see the real thing- Skype + video. Cool I thought, so here is the deal my sype ID is simple: suziecheel and you can contact me via my contact form or email me
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BEYOND OUR LINES
This is what I want to do
This is exactly how I want to live my life
Consciously taking risks and having a good time doing it
Expanding my total presence without embarrassment or denial of my power,
Your power, divine power – in this moment.
Putting everything right out here on the line
And then daring to really be myself.
Choosing to step beyond the lines I know and love so well
And deliberately risk everything I’ve build up so far to keep myself comfortable
But over and over and over Again and again
Until I experience my full potential
As a soul, as a teacher, as a woman, as a transformer.I want to live this life – my life – to the fullest
And continually stretch and relax my boundaries out to include more.
Amongst other things I want to experience an unplanned moment
An unpremeditated, unemancipated, unexpected, uncontrolled moment.
And when it happens, I want to recognize it Let go, open to it
And release my pictures of what the successful moment looks like
And of how I should perform within that moment
And simply surrender and trust my unknown abilities
And let my spirit rush into that space and show itself
Fully, authentically, magically, miraculously, splendidly,
Wonder-fully – the works.And I want to be substantially different as a result
I expect that moment to make a difference to the rest of my life
And I want there to be a difference in the world because of the
choices made in that single moment
And, since I don’t know when that moment’s coming
I want to experience all moments as possible entry points –
Just in case this is IT –
And stay conscious and be present to myself, to you, to what’s
Happening now – within me and between us –
Along with all the possibilities of what can happen next.
I want to see clearly whatever’s going on and respond to it.And I don’t want to feel like I’m doing this on my own I want friends to help.
I want to feel close and touched, loved and empowered by God’s Living grace –
you folks
So that together we can celebrate our full power as women making a difference
Together we can celebrate our full power as men making a difference
And together we can apply our spiritual passion for life
And build a planet of light and transformation which really works
Within our lifetimes.- Joy Drake
Quilt Pages
China Memories Patina Colourscapes 11 About Time Landform
Windows on The World Golden Glimpses Shifting Perceptions
Art Quilt: Landform
Landform
116(H) x 100 (W) cm ( 46 x 39 inches)
Pure wool, handpainted, handstitched
$1600 USD
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My Statement from the catalogue of the exhibition:
Landform combines painting and quilting to further explore the theme of layering: the brush strokes of the painting give direction for the stitching/ The layering reflects phenomena in the natural, physical world and in our inner world, where old layers are peeled away and new ones appear, providing fresh and different views.
Art Quilt: Colourscape II
This is the baby sister of the quilt that started my becoming an art quilter. There is another story about how the design for these came about, which the lucky buyer of this quilt will receive. It will also be part of the Monthly newsletter: Making a Living.
Colourscape II
28 x 39 inches ( 72 x 99cm)
Handpainted Wool crepe, Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted, Handpainted wool back.
$720 USD ( Free Shipping)
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Art Quilt: About Time
About Time
20 x27.5 inches (50 x 70cm)
$ 650 USD
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This quilt was made in 2007 for The Gold Coast Quilters Challenge and won the Innovative Quilt Award.
The image in the center with the clock was made in a wonderful work shop I did with Joan Schulze. Joan is a quilter whose tagline is Continuing the conversation, One Quilt at a time. Quilting and painting are ways of telling a story.
Glue transfer was a process I learnt, along with a variety of other techniques that have extended how I paint and put imagery onto fabric.
The fabrics in this quilt are all individually printed, stamped onto cotton and silk. The quilt has been machine quilted.
Detail: Blue Ribbon Innovative award
Chris Parfitt, a fellow Aussie Blogger has said she would like to see the real quilts. Okay a little difficult to do this online, yet. I do have a solution of how you can see the real thing - Skype + video. Cool I thought, so here is the deal my Skype ID is simple: suziecheel and you can contact me via my contact form or email me
Other Quilts
China Memories
Patina
Beyond The Lines
Colourscapes 11
Windows on The World
Golden Glimpses
Landform
Shifting Perceptions
How I Started Making Art Quilts
I became an art quilter one day when Dianne Finnegan, who had a large collection of my scarves, told me that she was going to get me to make a quilt for QUILTS 2000.
A bit of background. It was the time of the lead-up to the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Dianne, with Karen Fail, Margaret Wright and the rest of a small group of ten women had dreamed up this idea of a nationwide quilting project, with the aim of raising funds for the Paralympic Games 2000 (or Special Olympics as they are known in some places), from the sale of donated quilts. This was a world first in fund-raising for the Paralympics. By the time of the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, QUILTS 2000 had raised over half a million dollars and had become the world’s biggest fund-raising event using quilts.
But when Dianne first told me of her plan for me to make a quilt, I told her I could not do it. I had never made a real quilt before.
Diane is a very persuasive woman. She got me out of my comfort zone and with help from her I created the quilt Colourscape, which was displayed with the other QUILTS 2000 works and featured on a full page, in full colour, in the beautiful book, QUILTS 2000, Australia Celebrates, by Karen Fail and Dianne Finnegan.
91 cm x 118 cm( 36 x 48 inches) Wool, Silk, Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted
Colourscapes, to my surprise was one of the highly commended quilts, was purchased from the Internet. by an American collector. She was planning to have this stretched and framed, but I never heard the end of the story.The quilt sold for $1500, this surprised me at the time, I was new to the quilt world!
This is the text that was written for the book back in 1999.
The colours, shapes and patterns of Australia, as seen in the ever-changing landscape, people and culture, were the inspiration for Suzie’s first quilt, Colourscape. Since many quilters had been using her hand painted silk and wool off-cuts for their quilts, making her own quilt was a natural progression With encouragement and a little coaching from her friend Dianne Finnegan, Suzie constructed the top of the quilt, using a variety of hand painted wool crepe fabrics and off-cuts from wool jackets she had produced over the last ten years. The quilt is backed by a piece of hand painted silk which was originally destined to become a shirt. Suzie found that in making Colourscape, she has discovered a new vehicle for self-expression with the stitching a rewarding, relaxing, meditative process. Suzie readily donated her first art quilt to QUILTS 2000 in recognition of those who rise above their personal challenges and show us that there is hope for all of us.
Suzie Cheel is a professional textile artist. Through her business, Suzie Cheel Handpainted Originals, she has exhibited and sold her hand painted textiles in Australia and the United States since 1986. Special milestones for Suzie were being awarded the Alice Annual Craft Prize, in Alice Springs in 1980 and 1997, being selected for the Tamworth Fibre Exhibition in 1990, and receiving the Award of Excellence for hand painted silk from the Australian Silk Corporation at the Australian Craft Show, 1991. She has been a regular contributor to Australian Textile Fibre Forum since 1991, writing on Making a Living in the Textile Arts.
Art Quilt:Striation
Striation
36 x 29 in (91.5 x74 cm)
$680 USD
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Digitally manipulated image on printed onto silk, monoprinted calico, representing the ridges of the corrugated iron.
Machine pieced, handstitched.
The inspiration for this art quilt came from the passion I have with corrugated iron. I love taking photographs of rusty old iron walls and sheds. My studio in Lilyfield was opposite The Old Broom Factory in Rozelle. This a photocopy of the main wall of the factory, that my studio looked onto. We still use broom heads and brushes that Norm Martin the owner gave me.
Oh, I’ve got a great collection of brooms and brushes from Norm’s place. He used to give them to me. "Try them out", he’d say "Let me know if they are any good!" Suzie Cheel, neighbour to broom factory, 84 Foucart Lane, January 1997.
- Jeanne Gehue The broom factory in Rozelle formed the subject of her honours thesis.
Art and Beyond is Here
This is a post from almost 2 years ago when I first started a blog,
This is what the blog looked like then and was hosted on Blogharbor, which is now called Press Harbor. Thanks to John Keegan
Welcome, after many months of procrastination I finally put my blog together and get the first post up.
When you live with a blogging evangelist as I do, everyone assumes you would have a blog.I have registered several blogs, and like many others there are some idle blogs out there in cyberspace, in time I may revive some, as I have discovered this is a very simple, cost effective way to have a website. There are many other positive aspects to having you own blog.
I have been using the blogging evengelist’s Des Walsh’s new book 7Step Business Blog
to get my website up and running. The book does work, although I have tried to shortcut the process by asking for help, I get the reply " that’s in the book, and why I wrote it!"
Art and Beyond will provide a platform for my own artwork as well as being a resource focusing on textiles,digital art and new web technology.There will also be articles on Making a Living in the Textile Arts.
Suzie Cheel has been involved in the Textile Arts as an artist, business owner and writer. You can read more here more here.
