"Best Kept Secrets"

"Best Kept Secrets", 43"l x 35"w x 3"d (wall hanging)

Price: 4,500.00

(On display at Bead+Fiber, Boston, Mass from April 2-May 2, 2010 )www.beadandfiber.net

Media: Photos on cotton, linen, paper:pieced, quilted, free motion stitching, hand embroidery, applique, beads, stones, scanned aspen leaves, metal button, leather, book in pouch that folds down.

"Best Kept Secrets"

"Best Kept Secrets", Detail of folding book

Plaid Mary

Title: "Plaid Mary" 25" x 20"

Media: Photos on cotton, organdy, silk;pieced, machine and hand quilted, hand embroidery, beading, antique sequins, lace, heat transfers, applique, paper flowers, crocheted years, glass

Price: 3,000.00

"Cowboy Music" (28" x 35") 2004
Artist: Peggy DeBell
Media: Photos and altered photos, inkjet prints on cotton:pieced, fused, appliqued, quilted, hand embroidered; Bottle caps, plastic, foam stars, braid, beads, leather, scrapbook finds.
Price: 2.400.00

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The Three Julias

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"Mourning in Appalachia"

"Mourning in Appalachia", 36' x 30" x 1", 2004

Artist: Peggy DeBell

Media: Photos and altered photos, archival inkjet prints on cotton, silk and organdy, pieced, quilted, slashed, layered, hand and machine stitched, beads, glass, paper, stones, ribbon

Price: 3,000.00

"Mourning in Appalachia"

Detail of "Mourning in Appalachia", --A red sheer panel hangs over the blackbirds..

"Mourning in Appalachia"

Detail middle panel of "Mourning in Appalachia"--6 layers of fabric, slashed to reveal hidden wildflowers of Appalachia that often get disturbed when homes are built. (photos on cotton)

"Mourning in Appalachia"

Detail of Mourning in Appalachia.. original poem, hand embroidered

"Red Shoe Magic"

"Stitched into Reality",Bead+Fiber, Boston, MA

I have 8 pieces in my one person show called "Stitched into Reality" at Bead + Fiber in Boston. "Red Shoe Magic" marked a change in my art because I had discovered the holy trinity : My new computer, scanner, and image editing software! www.beadandfiber.net

Red Shoe Magic, (27.5"L x 20"W x .5"D) 2,500.00 (wall hanging)

2002

Red Shoe Magic" began with a photograph I made of a Flamenco dance teacher in Tucson, AZ in 2002. I was visiting a friend, Norma Kwestel, and was inspired by her paintings of these dancers. The woman was wearing black heels that reminded me of the shoes worn by Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz , so I used my own magic to make red ones. The entire surface is transformed and integrated by my use of heavy hand embroidery, free motion machine stitching, heat transfers, photos that have been digitally altered; scanned and appliqued images (nautilus shell), piecing in a collage like manner, and depth added by layering and quilting.

It took about 120 hours of labor intensive work to complete this one of a kind textile.