Jean Judd Art Quilts - Wall Art Gallery

Textile Wall Art Gallery

Art Deco #1 (2009), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This piece is the beginning of a new series of art quilts based on the art deco design. This first piece is 30"x27" and is densely hand quilted.

The art deco design is carried out to the edges of the piece from the center design. Hand quilting alone carries on the design. A very tactile piece that everyone wants to touch and feel. The backing is traditional unbleached muslin and is signed and dated by the artist.

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Autumn Charm (1995) Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This quilt is made from 91 different fabrics pre 1995. It is only 15 1/2 inches wide x 24 1/4 inches long. Each piece is 1" wide by 2 1/2" long and no two pieces of fabric are the same. The fabrics chosen give you the feeling of fall maple leaves and all the brilliant colors of autumn.

The piece is hand quilted around each individual piece and in the grey leaf border, a garland of leaves has been hand quilted.

The backing is traditional unbleached muslin. It is signed and dated by the artist.
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Choir of Angels Tapestry (2005), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This is the first in a series of quilts using this block. The entire quilt is made from one block with each block individually designed to create the overall design. The quilt is set on point with setting triangles to make the quilt square.

The block used in this quilt, Wyoming Valley, is from the 1930’s Chicago Tribune column, Nancy Cabot. The block has 65 individual pieces consisting of squares and triangles. A total of 2,665 pieces are in the main body of the quilt. Placement of the six different colors affected the change in the design of each block. The focus fabric is the Angel Tapestry fabric used in the center of each block.

The hand quilting done over the entire quilt top is in a grid design. The finishing quilting was documented at over 350 hours, which comprised 1/3 of the quilt top. The backing of the quilt is traditional, unbleached muslin and is signed and dated by the artist. Detail Photo Purchase

Floral Crossword Puzzle (2005), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This is a wonderful quilt celebrating the art of gardening as well as crossword puzzles. This is the first in this series of Theme Crossword Puzzle quilts.

The black squares are a tone on tone black print with light grey roses. In the center of each black square, there is handquilted a four pedal flower. Flower names are handquilted in the white squares which are a tone on tone tiny leaf pattern.

The floral border is handquilted in a crosshatch pattern that really adds texture to this piece.

The backing is traditional, non-bleached muslin, signed and dated by the artist. Detail Photo Purchase

Fractured 'Gello #1 (2009), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This piece is the first piece in my new series, Fractured 'Gello. The next 2 pieces are in progress and can be seen on my Works in Progress page. The piece is heavily hand quilted in an off set geometric pattern.

Because of its abstract quality, this piece is designed to be displayed either vertically as shown to the left, or it can be hung horizontally. Click the link below to view it in a horizontal orientation.

Currently featured in the National Quilting Association (NQA) Quilting Quarterly magazine, Quilters Scrapbook feature, Winter 2009 edition, page 28. Horizontal Detail Quilting Purchase

Isn't It Coffee Time? (2005), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This wall art piece was designed as a challenge where one piece of fabric 18"x18” (the brown marbled fabric) was given out. The requirements were to design a piece no larger than 30”x30” using this fabric along with any others to create a unique piece that reflected the theme of “Coffee Time”.

I thought about all the mornings of sitting over a cup of coffee, watching the swans and loons on the lake outside the window starting their morning routine as I prepared for another day of work. The ritual of hunching over that first cup of coffee; looking down into the cup as the coffee swirled after having stirred in the cream is represented by the swirl echo quilted inside the cup.

Time plays a part in all of this as well – never enough time to just sit back and enjoy life, so a subdued image of a clock was quilted inside the coffee cup as well. The cup and coffee are hand appliquéd to the background. The quilting stitches are in an overall grid design and gives this piece a finished look of being set on a tablecloth. Detail Photo Purchase

The Last Angel (2010), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This textile artwork has been a long time in the design and construction process. It was started in 2002 and just completed in August of 2010. The art quilt is done entirely by hand. The tan oval is hand appliquéd to the cherub background. The angel form is densely hand quilted and the intricate radiating lines and the abstract swirls in the cherub background are also done entirely by hand.

The full extent of the hand quilting can be seen here in the image of the back of the art quilt as well as in the detail image of the angel’s head here. Some of the abstract swirl can be seen in this detail image here.

The format of the piece is reminiscent of iconography created for Byzantine and Orthodox Christian traditions from the 17th century forward.

The artwork is available for PURCHASE here directly from the artist.

Serenity Tree (2004), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist In the center is a “Serenity” tree, that is the place where we all can go for solace and peace during the troubled times of our life. The fabric in the tree canopy is a reproduction fabric from the William Morris Collection (1834-1896). It is heavily echo quilted.
Framing the tree is a white border representing the “fence” that keeps the atmosphere around the tree peaceful. Interlocking leaves are quilted in the white border.

The next two borders are asymmetrical and represent the different influences in our lives. The red is for the anger we experience sometimes in our life. The black for the dark periods we experience.

Two opposing corners have pinwheels that represent the out of control feelings we sometimes have, and the other two corners are the rigid “black and white” views that we encounter.

The goal of the Serenity Tree wall hanging is to have you focus on leaving the bad influences outside of yourself and go into the peaceful, quiet, serene garden, and sit under your Serenity Tree and rejuvenate your soul. Detail Photo Detail Photo #2 Detail Photo #3 Detail Photo Back Purchase

Stained Glass Mosaic #1 (2007), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This is the first quilt in my new series, Stained Glass Mosaics. This quilt has 66 different fabrics, none of them repeated, in this compact quilt. The center of the quilt has a stained glass effect produced by the black bias tape separating each piece of fabric.

The quilt is hand quilted in a spiral design starting in each of the four corners and in the center of the quilt. The spirals spill out into the grey "explosion" background.

The fabrics are 100% cotton commercial fabrics, polyester batting, and traditional unbleached muslin for the backing. Signed and dated by the artist. Detail Photo Detail Photo Back Purchase

Stained Glass Mosaic #4 (2008), Jean M. Judd, Textile Artist This is the fourth quilt in an ongoing series exploring the use of bias tape and freeform design.

The black leading is hand made bias tape made by the artist and hand appliqued to the Venetian Glass fabric. The piece is hand quilted in 1/8" echo quilting. The piece is hand bound, signed and dated by the artist. This piece is featured in the Summer 2008 ARTnews magazine in the Artist Directory on page 183.
This piece is featured in the Burnett County Sentinel, Grantsburg, WI September 3, 2008. “Jean Judd in national juried art show” article. Jean's piece has been juried into the upcoming Lines Into Shapes art exhibit at the Art Center in Estes Park, CO, Sept. 19-Oct. 5, 2008. Detail Photo Purchase