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Hundertwasser was a German architect and painter. This wallhanging is based on his painting, Town Under The Rain. I have tried to recreate the effect of watercolour paint pooling onto paper, which gives a beautiful uneven effect, so my fabrics have been hand painted with acrylics and dyes, and are then further embellished with markal oilsticks, pen and stitch. On some fabrics the colours bleed into each other. The whole wallhanging has been "free pieced" ie without patterns or templates, and simply grew as I went along.

The colours Hundertwasser chose are quite vibrant and are not within my normal "comfort zone" so it has taken a while for me to feel happy with the result. There are several of his paintings which I think would make fabulous quilts, and I shall probably make 3 or 4 more to hang as a group. Although they will be substantially different from his paintings, in shape, structure, colour etc., (they can, at best, only be a broad outline of the originals) and although they make interesting wallhangings, I do not regard them in the same way as the other pieces on the web site which are, on the whole, based entirely on original ideas.

THESE PIECES ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR "A MUSEUM IN TEXTILES"; AN EXHIBITION HELD AT WARWICKSHIRE MUSEUM, WARWICK IN MARCH/APRIL 2007

Everything decays and erodes over time. Not just organic matter, but also our memories alter and become the layers of history. Language changes all the time too and words are often broken down and new ones formed. This piece is a personal reaction to visits to Warwickshire Museum, it's minerals, fossils, and crystal forms.

This wallhanging is made from own-dyed cotton and silk fabrics applied to a painted cotton background. The whole cloth was then stitched with various threads and embroidered words. Rubbings were taken with ammonite fossils borrowed from the museum and then gilded using 23ct gold leaf. Embroidered full sized ammonites were then added, and the whole quilt was then covered in a painted and melted polyester lattice, backed with screen painted cottons, and held together with mennonite knots.

A series of 4 smaller, wadded, quilts with an average measurement of 45" x 17" (slight variations) designed using the colours of the minerals for sale in the museum shop and those on display in the geology sections. They are collaged cottons and silks on a painted background (similar to Museum 1) They have applied threads and are closely quilted in vertical 1/4 inch lines.

This quilt is 28" x 58" and has the same collaged base as Museum 1 but with a colour flow from palest lemon to a deep red/rust. It has 23ct gold leaf gilding in shape of ammonites scattered over the surface. It has a green cotton lattice based on mineral shapes applied over the top, and is then machine quilted in 1/4 vertical lines.