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Artist’s Statement
I am drawn to quilting because it stimulates me in various ways. The design part is stimulating to my creativity, the color work is healing to my psyche, working with fabrics is wonderful for my kinesthetic sensitivities, and the textures produced in the quilting aspect are a whole other part of the physics of design. There is also an altruistic dimension to my quiltmaking. In our technology-based culture we need things in our lives that speak of hearth and home, and I believe that quilts do that. Quilts help to heal the rift that has arisen from our technology-driven work lives and our social and family lives. If one could describe my work, it would be that I love to use color, particularly saturated color. It has been proven that color influences us psychologically; product marketers use color to influence us in their packaging and advertising. I use color and line to express a feeling or to convey a thought. I hope you enjoy my website and come back to visit it often, as I am continually making new quilts. I just hope I can live long enough to make all the ones I have in my head… Sue Wyard Contact Sue via e-mail at swyard@cnsp.com |
My art education comes from a lot of trial and error and
learning while doing. I started quilting about 30 years ago when my children
were small. Because the process was tedious and slow, I didn’t make a lot of
quilts. Then I was a potter for a while, and after that I made knitwear as a
business. In 1998 a friend reintroduced me to quilting--and what a difference!
With rotary cutters and the new sewing machines, it was a whole new world. With
the technology available today, a quilt can be cut out and sewn together a lot
faster and more efficiently than ever before. I have taken a lot of design and
basic art classes, but to this day my artwork comes from my intuition.