Birds | JUDITH RODERICK ART QUILTS

Birds

2 blue bowerbirds.jpeg

3 Ravens.jpeg

Blue Bowerbird.jpeg

Night Owl.jpeg

Owl and Mountain.jpeg

Owls actual and symbolic.jpeg

Roadrunner in the Southwest Landscape detail.jpeg

roadrunner.jpeg

Tree of Life .jpg

urban bowerbird.jpeg

Vogelkop Bowerbird.jpeg

Birds bring life, beauty, movement and, song to my world, to my landscape. Anywhere in the world that I have traveled or lived, if I look and listen, pay attention to my surroundings, I notice birds. They bring a smile, and upliftment, a delight to life.

I was a Painting and Design major in college, and I draw well, so from my sketches and photographs, I draw freehand on silk to do the original paintings for my Art Quilts.

I often get photos of my quilts reproduced, printed by Spoonflower, and usethem or parts of them to create a
collage, to fuse on to quilts. I generally embellish, after machine quilting, with my large, rich and varied button collection. Many people have their Mother’s or Grandmother’s buttons and don’t know what to do with them,so I am often gifted with these treasures, and I find the hand sewing of these carefully chosen buttons to be a verysatisfying andmeditative
experience.

As for why birds, here is a poem from Terry Tempest Williams:
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing
at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what
we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."

That is what I do with my art.