Instructor

Barbara is a fabric artist who sews original abstract artworks using traditional quilting techniques. Employing her own designs, she pieces together fabric shapes with a sewing machine and by hand. Her primary materials are commercially printed fabric as well as fabric she had dyed and manipulated. She is absorbed by the simple acts of washing, rinsing, drying, sewing, and ironing and differs from many traditional quilters in that she designs and cuts fabric in an effort to distort geometry. She works to create irregularity, using various shapes to impel the viewer’s eye to roam over the entire surface of the quilt, seeking the harmonies in the middle of contrast. After living in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years, in 2015 she moved to Port Townsend with her husband, Kerry Tremain, a photographer, art director, writer, and editor.