ABOUT

Sherry’s passion for creative pursuits has been life long. She has pursued many forms of art from her childhood in Iowa to adulthood in California, with stops in between in Missouri, Florida, and Texas. She married and became a full time mother raising three daughters with a heavy dose of arts as part of their upbringing (all have become accomplished artists). Trying to avoid the empty nest syndrome when her youngest left home for art school, Sherry replaced her old sewing machine and rediscovered her love of fiber.            After a few bed size quilts she discovered the world of art quilts that had emerged in the years of her absence from the world of sewing. Sherry’s background in drawing, painting, collage, sewing, and crafts all came together to create her first art quilt in 2005. Not content to follow someone else’s patterns or ideas, Sherry has pursued a path of exploration combining her figurative drawing and collage work into fabric. She has created a diverse body of work in the past three years.        To make up for lost time, Sherry has pushed boundaries in her work, seeing what is possible. She uses piecing, raw edge appliqué, fusibles, multiple kinds of mixed media (graphite, textile paints and inks, water soluble colored pencils and crayons), commercial fabrics, and hand dyes. Sherry is very grateful to her husband Steve and her daughters for all their encouragement and support.