Lynn Bunis

Artists statement: As my quilting work has evolved over the past 15 years, I realise that I am perfecting my ability to create abstract designs as well as to paint pictures with fabric. The delight I get in finding a fabric that has just the right texture, shading and nuance to look like old paint on a weathered boat, the face of a black-faced sheep, or the play of light on a distant mountain is exciting and energizing. Abstract work is more difficult; little about it comes easy to me. That is why I have tried to do more of it in recent years. Painting pictures – whether real or imagined – and telling stories, or taking you where I’ve been, brings me most joy.

Lynn Bunis is an American now living in Comrie. She has worked with textiles all her life and began patchwork in 1990. She rapidly moved from the traditional repeating pattern bed quilts, to wall quilts. She has won awards in numerous shows. Her work is on display in the US, England, Italy and Scotland. In 2002 she received her City and Guilds certificate in Intermediate Design and Technique.

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