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Schrott Chappaqua, New York website: www.susanschrott.com email: click here Susan Schrott’s award winning art quilts have appeared in various publications, are among numerous private collections, and can be seen in several children’s hospitals in Israel. Susan was raised by generations of creative women. Originally inspired by her great-grandmother’s and grandmothers’ needle work and her mother’s paintings, she developed her own passion for textiles early in life. In her teens she began to sew her own garments. In her early twenties Susan pursued a successful musical theatre career. In her late twenties she returned to college, earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work, married, had two daughters and became a psychotherapist. Susan is a member of Fiber Revolution, Studio Art Quilt Associates, the American Quilter’s Society, and The International Quilters Association. Artist Statement: For over a decade I have been exploring how my quilts become works of art when I use fabrics, threads, paints, and embellishments to bring my visions to life .My artwork is deeply personal, inspired by my unrelenting passion for authentic self-expression. My inspiration comes from my life as a woman, my family, my work as a psychotherapist, and a drive to release my conscious and unconscious creative energy through my artwork. |
Dancing With
Their Timbrels
55"w x 72"h
©Susan
Schrott 2004
Cotton fabrics, cotton batting, tulle
found objects, bells, beads,
sequins, rhinestones,
metallic, variegated, cotton
threads, fabric markers, machine quilted
Originally created in response to a
Myths and Legends Challenge on the QuiltArt website. However, as
this piece evolved it exceeded the measurements required for the
challenge, and so I continued working on it and allowed my own
vision to come to fruition.
This piece is inspired by Miriam
and the women who danced with her after crossing the Red Sea and
joyously finding and feeling their freedom.
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Surrender to Joy
5'6" x 4'9" © Susan Schrott 2003 Winner, Honorable Mention, 2004 World Of Quilts, Somers NY Cotton fabrics, cotton batting,
Embellished
with yarns, beads, sequins, metallic threads, rayon threads, gold
leaf and white bridal petals, appliquéd, machine quilted.
A fantasy self portrait. She came
alive when I decided this fall to take a sabbatical from my work as
a psychotherapist. With great support and love from my husband, I am
working fulltime as a quilt artist. I don't like the cold and winter
is here. So, in this piece, the sun is radiating down upon this
woman, her skin is glowing with warm earth tones and birds fly
freely around her. I quilted each bird separately and they are
hanging three dimensionally from the borders. They are embellished
with beads, sequins, gold leaf petals and metallic threads on both
sides of the mini bird quilts.
Her skirt is hemmed with dangling
beads, the border is couched with blue yarn and she wears a
crown of sequins.
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 First Star I See Tonight (detail) 36"h x 29"w © Susan Schrott 2004 cotton fabric, cotton batting, tulle, metallic, rayon and polyester threads appliquéd, free motion quilted This piece was inspired by a photograph I took of my younger daughter on a warm summer evening, in the woods at my parent's home on a very special island. |