DEL QUILTS: 11/12/23

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Sue Benner quilt from Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection 11-12-23

Sue Benner has just returned home from teaching at Art Quilt Tahoe and has been posting pictures of the landscape and of her students work. I am in love with this photo of a sunset over the lake. It made me hang one of her quilts that is in TCQC. Such amazing photos and quilts she creates.

I haven't posted this quilt since Sep 2019 and this is a "reprint" of that long ago post.

"Marsh #22" quilt by Sue Benner 09-22-19

This is one of the newer quilts in the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection. I bought it from Sue last year after she showed it unfinished to her class at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, AZ. I thought I had already posted it here, but cannot find it anywhere.

It is part of her series "Marsh" and joins "Marsh #11" which I added to the Collection in 2001. Odd that I should have both #11 and #22. Guess I'll have to watch for #33!

"Marsh #22" Sue Benner - Texas 2018 46"W x 15"L

Hand painted fabrics by the artist, fused, cotton batting, machine quilted.

The color in these pictures is brighter than the actual quilt, but I can't seem to adjust it very much; it is more misty and mysterious. I have enjoyed having it hanging on the wall in the family room where I see it off and on all day. And I see different things in it at different times. Sometimes it does indeed resemble marshes, but also cities on water, sunset or sunrise on the ocean, views in the mesas and valleys of the desert.... I find it very peaceful, very calming.