Artist: Janet Swigler | Location: Columbia, SC
Nothing Stays the Same IX

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Artist: Janet Swigler | Location: Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC
Stitching, by hand or machine, and manipulating fabric are my most satisfying creative outlets. My quilts are improvisational, cut free-hand, and created intuitively without the use of patterns. A rotary cutter is used to “draw” the fabric elements of a piece. Quilt making is my art form, and incorporates principles of art: quality of line, value, proportion, and figure/ground composition. Exploring color, imaginative re-structuring of a simple motif, and developing a piece as I create it are important components.
Since retiring in 2013 I have traveled numerous times to Ohio to study with Nancy Crow, an innovative quilt maker and a Master of the Medium in the Smithsonian Museum’s Renwick Alliance. A background of musical training and a career in music education provide additional perspectives and depth of artistic understanding. Travel, observations of daily life and nature, reflections on personal insights, and a regular tai chi practice inspire and inform my abstract creations.