Four Strong Winds

In addition to being inspired by landscapes that I photograph, I have favorite song titles and lyrics that influence my direction. Sometimes I don't name a work until it's finished and then I let it speak its name to me and that was the case with this one. As I spent time immersed in the finished scene of the Oregon coast, the song “Four Strong Winds” kept popping into my head so I knew that was what it wanted to be.

“Four strong winds that blow lonely

Seven seas that run high

All these things that don't change

Come what may.” (With permission of Ian Tyson)

Collection of New Mexico Arts Division, Art In Public Places Program, Deming Luna Mimbres Musuem, Deming NM

EXHIBITIONS

• Double Vision: Two Unique Insights in Fabric & Thread
  Riverviews ArtSpace, Lynchburg VA, May 1 - June 21, 2009

PUBLICATIONS

• Landscape Quilts: Stitching the Sea, Machine Quilting Unlimited magazine by Kit Robinson, January/February 2017
• 500 Art Quilts by Martha Sielman, Lark Books, 2010