Doreen

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Doreen has a love with South Africa - not a just a love but it is almost an obsession with her now. Her first visit there was when she was about 20 and being a serviceman’s wife, she did not see very much of the country. However, she returned later in life as a civilian, and it was like visiting the country for the first time – a fantastic world opened up for her. These are some of the pieces of work she has produced

A part of the Adinkra Symbols pictures where symbols have various meanings and can be found all over Africa. They were stunning pictures – so simple as the fabric had been ironed onto Bondaweb, then cut out and ironed onto fabric and mounted onto canvas boards.

The other hobby of Doreen’s is photography, and it is the photographs that she has taken that have driven her to make quilts based on South Africa. She has a series of quilts called ‘The Colours of Africa’ depicting browns for the earth; oranges, yellows and shisha glass for the sun; turquoises and greeny blues using silk and cotton fabric for the sea; blues for the skies. In this series she has used 57 colours of Africa but she admitted that there are more than 57 colours, so this is a very small sample of the total number of colours in South Africa.

The quilts completed have been worked using Log Cabin which Doreen explained, she didn’t start off intending to use that technique all the time, she became fascinated by it and so she used it all the time. The Arcacia tree and a giraffee are the central motifs to the quilts.

Rainbow’s End Quilting Shop - this is a miniature shop showing all the things you would find in a quilting shop. Doreen had exhibited at NEC Birmingham and Puddleducks of Sevenoaks.

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