Collage Fiber Art Series

Collage is a soft-edge fused appliqué series, utilizing dyed or over-dyed fabrics, and intensive self-guided machine quilting. It's components began with "squiggly" shapes and graduated rapidly to the rectangles evocative of doors and windows.

Collage I: Fourth Dimension of Existence
© 2000,
41"w x 51"
h
SOLD
Collage II: The Fabric of Our Existence
© 2000
21"w x 26"h
$325
Collage III: Windows of Opportunity
© 2000
26 "h x 41"w
SOLD

 

 

 

 
Collage IV: I'm Gonna Dance Upon This Earth
© 2000
27 "h x 39"w
SOLD
 

Collage VI: Dancing Free
for more information on this quilt
© 2001
17.5"h x 25.5"w
(in private collection)

 

Collage VIII: Watchtower
© 2001
32"h x 37"w
$600
Collage V: Together We Can
© 2001
30"h x 46"w
(donated to the Ithaca Community Recovery Center)
Collage VII: Temporal Tapestry
© 2001
27 "h x 44"w

$600

 

Collage IX: Tower in the Sky
45"h x 20"w
Won Judge's Choice Award in the
Schweinfurth Art Center's
2002
Quilts = Art = Quilts show
SOLD

Collage X: Hole in the Sky
43"h x 19"w
© 2002
$425

Collage XI: Pipe Dreams
16" x 40"
© 2002
SOLD
Collages XII a, b, c
© 2002,
10"w x 18"h 11.5"w x 20"h 14.5"w x 10"h

(All In private collections)

 

 

 

Collage XIII: Never Purple Enough
© 2003
24.3 "h x 25" w
(In Private Collection)
Collage XIV: Stepping Stones
©2003
This piece features staples as a design element, both on the lozenge shapes and on the binding.
15.5"w x16.7" h
$150
Collage XVII
©2005
14"w x 10" h
(donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
for fund raising)

 

Collage XVIII:Memory Lapses
Includes computer components as surface-design elements
© 2003
14"w x 22"h
$200

Collage XX:Dream Dancer
© 2008
19"w x 29"h
$300

 

 

 

Melissa Craven Fowler
Ithaca, NY
Melissa@MelissaCravenFowler.com