This series started on my way back from the Quilt/Surface Design Symposium back in 1995. Driving on my return home along some country lanes, I spotted Day Lilies growing beside a farm. I stopped to take a picture. That photograph rekindled my interest in flowers (I was a Biology major in college at Purdue). Having already begun exploring how to put images from my camera in my work, I hid a few "real" photographic flowers amongst the appliqued ones in Lilies of the Field. Since then, I've explored many ways to combine realism and abstraction in my floral quilts as well as many ways of creating the backgrounds with surface-design techniques. I've generally moved from cotton to silk fabrics. Click on the image or name of the quilt for a larger image and more information on each quilt. See Landscape Series and Small Works Series for more floral quilts.

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Fanfare for Roses

Dance of the Roses

Floral Departure

In the Glow

In my featured artist section of Cutting Edge Art Quilts by Mary Kerr, Schiffer Publishing, 2013

Petunias on Parade

In my featured artist section of Cutting Edge Art Quilts by Mary Kerr, Schiffer Publishing, 2013

Black and White and Poppy

The Batik and the Iris

NEW! approx 15" w x 14 h"

SOLD

Iris Reflections

Delightful Dahlias Day and Night

Afternoon Seduction

Purple Spring

shown are back and front

Purple Petunias

Moonlight Sonata

Sunrise Serenade

sold

Red Dahlia Reflections

Dahlia Reflections #1

Dahlia Reflections #2

Duel for My Dahlias

Presentation Rose

Tropical Leaves Kaleidoscope

Red Poppy Reflections

Hermosa Poppies

Hibiscus Reflections

Papilio Amaryllis

Renewal

Fibonacci Sunflowers

Won Best Innovative Pictorial Quilt at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2005 Sold - See at Crozer-Chester Medical Center ER waiting room in Upland, PA.

Sold

Under the Sunflowers

Lilies in the Rain

Dahlias a la Mode

Won 3rd Place Innovative Wall Quilt AQS Quilt Show on cover of AQS 2006 Wall calendar

Dancing Iris

Orchid Fugue

Water Ballet #5

Won 2nd in Wall Quilts at Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2005

Seen on the cover of American Quilter, Spring 2005 issue also at In Full Bloom III IQF 2006

Won 3rd place Wall Quilt at Quilt Odyssey.

Sold

Chaco Cholla

Abundance of Orchids

Clown Amaryllis

At Crafts National 36, Zoller Gallery Penn State University won Award of Merit in 2002

SOLD

Won 3rd Place Naturescapes at International Quilt Festival 2004

Elle's Strawflower

Floral Romance

Let It Bee

won First Applique Wall Quilt Quilt Expo Wisconsin '06

See how this quilt was created in the 6th Edition of Quilting Arts Magazine. SOLD

SOLD

Stargazer
Lily #2

Red Star Amaryllis

Orange Amaryllis

Floral Symphony #10:
Daffodil Fantasia

Floral Symphony #8:
Erythrina

Floral Symphony #12: Water Lilies

Featured on cover of issue 2 of Quilting Arts Magazine

Floral Symphony #6:
Irises Bathed in Light

Sold

Floral Symphony #3:
The Rose

Floral Symphony #7:
Cape Primrose

Sold

Floral Symphony #5:
Wild Geraniums

Floral Symphony #2:
Foxgloves

Floral Symphony #1:
Lilies of the Field