Sunday, October 22, 2006

Quilts by Cynthia Ann Morgan

Klimt's Gold (with detail photo )

22 x 37" $400

Inspired by the byzantine style of Gustav Klimt, particularly the robes in his painting "The Kiss". Constructed of cottons, silks, lame, brocade fabrics and heavily quilted with cotton thread. This piece was juried into the 2005 Fabric of Legacies exhibit in Fort Collins and the 2006 Furnishings & Fiber art show in Steamboat Springs.

Russian Cathedrals (with detail photo below)

29 x 37" $400

Inspired by the cathedrals in Moscow, produced in an analogous color scheme of hand dyed and commercial fabrics, hand beaded and machine quilted in cotton and metallic threads. This piece was juried in the 2005 Pacific International Quilt Festival and the 2006 Denver International Quilt Festival and also has been photographed to be published in the Quilter's Newsletter Magazine

Precise Chaos (with detail photo below)

19 x17" $150

Constructed of cotton commercial fabrics and heavily quilted with cotton thread


Nautilus (with detail photo below)

20 x 20" $150

Constructed of hand dyed and commercial fabrics, machine applique, hand beading and heavily embroidered, quilted and edged by hand using perle cotton thread.

Sticks and Stones

18 x 20" $150

Constructed using commercial cotton fabrics, various couched yarns and fibers, hand beading, machine quilted, and edged with perle cotton by hand. This piece was juried into 2006 LowerTown Arts Walk in Paducah, KY

Quilts by Cynthia Ann Morgan

Katrina (with detail photo below)
16 x 15" $150
Inspired by poem "Katrina's Wake" by New Orleans poet, Cheryl B Sellers. Words from the poem are stitched into the piece and the full poem is on the back of the quilt. (used with permission of the poet). Constructed with commercial cotton fabric and heavily quilted with cotton and metallic threads.





Maple Leaves (with detail photo below)
16 x 22" $150
Constructed from Hand dyed cotton fabric and heavily quilted with cotton thread. The 3-D elements are separate tiny quilts inspired by the traditional quilt block called Maple Leaf



Serpentine (with detail photo below)
48 x 48 " $350
Constructed with a wide variety of commercial cottons in a variation of the traditional drunkard's path quilt block in the complementary color scheme of blue-green and red-orange.


Woman in Desert
19 x 38" $200
Constructed with red, orange, gold and violet hand dyed and commercial fabrics and quilted with metallic thread. This piece was juried into the 2005 Professional Art Quilt Alliance-South show ARTQUILTSjourneys.

Deconstructed Series

This series by Cynthia Ann Morgan is constructed from cut up quilted pieces reassembled into an abstract collage. Constructed with hand dyed cotton and silk, commercial and African fabrics quilted with cotton and metallic threads. Photo transfer, screen printing, hand embroidery and found objects are also used on some of the pieces in this series

Deconstructed #2 (with detail below)
28 x 33" $350
This piece was juried into the 2006 Fabric of Legacies exhibit in Fort Collins, CO



Deconstructed #5 (with detail below)
20 x 20" $150



Deconstructed #4 (with detail below)
26x 22" $200

Puzzle Series

This series by Cynthia Ann Morgan is based on the abstraction of the traditional quilt block called Yankee Puzzle. Constructed of cotton and silk hand dyed, African and commercial fabrics and quilted with cotton thread. Pieces are heavily quilted giving lots of texture and movement.

Puzzle #2 27 x 27" $300


Puzzle #3 30 x 23" $400


Puzzle #1 23 x 29" $200