From infancy, I moved all over the world. A lot. So nowhere was truly home. Less than two years after we arrived in Maine in July 2004, in my 40s, I made two quilts depicting winter with technicolor stone walls and trees and lots of snow. Those quilts flowed out of me effortlessly! I realized that while I wasn’t born in Maine, I should have been: my birthplace was an accident of geography. And I knew I had finally found Home.
This summer marks 20 years since we arrived in Camden and I attended my first Maine Quilts. This exhibit showcases my work from my earliest art quilts to the present as I matured as an artist and became confident in my voice, skill, subject matter and style. I hope Finding Home brings you joy, just as living in Maine and being accepted as part of the state’s quilt community has brought joy and home to me.
