My talent for patchwork and quilting
I was just 20 years old and still green behind the ears, but ready for the big wide world. So I gained my first experience of life abroad as an au pair near Toronto. During a weekend trip, I came face to face with a magnificent quilt in Kitchener-Waterloo (St. Jacobs). That brief moment ignited in me a passion for patchwork and quilting. This was in 1986.
After that I attended classes and learned a lot about patchwork and quilting. My first steps were in the traditional corner, followed by a short time in appliqué. I continued to develop, joined quilting clubs, and began teaching classes in patchwork and quilting myself. Over the years I have built up a network in the quilt scene.
Today I am with heart and soul an art quilter. I connect my art with my life and life stories emerge from it.
I give feelings a voice!
Some impression of my work
Berner Quilters Kiss
2018 Bernese Quilters Elfenau Exhibition, Switzerland - crooked teeth or the city of Bern!
Berne my home
2014 Bernese Quilters Elfenau exhibition - the quilt is made of antique postcards from 1917, Bern and surroundings
from traditional costume to Mondrian
2007 Quilters Guild exhibited in Holland - miniature exhibition
front - back - inside out
2008 Quilters Guild exhibited in Holland and in Canada - skirts beautiful from the front, back and inside out
Alegria
first child quilt, made 1995 - sewn and quilted by hand
Sep the scare
2006 Quiltersgilde exhibited in Holland - my first participation in a quilt show
2011 First Quilt-serie “this is how it started”
Every year thousands of people are confronted with the diagnosis of cancer. This was the case for me in 1999. It was a long, difficult and intense journey. Years later, I have processed the feelings of that time through 18 special quilts. I was allowed to exhibit this quilt series several times in Holland and in the United States.
Some impression of “this is how it started”
This is how it started
after the quilt series was finished, I stacked all quilts and thus symbolically completed the processing
in own hands
with the quilt I took the process into my own hands and thus processed the feelings
Thank you
there are over 1000 buttons in this quilt, every single button stands for the help I got from someone, with this quilt I thank everybody
Selfie
from each quilt in the series I cut out a piece and used it to create the self-portrait, everything I experienced is a part of me
Love is....
the support during the intense radiation time was enormous, I could take a lot of strength from it, like from this sunny quilt
This is how it started
RTV Dordrecht - 2011 (in Dutch only)