above: detail from “Prairie Roots Run Deep”
Eileen Doughty's specialty is creating landscape art quilts. She founded Doughty Designs in 1991 and has been creating commissioned custom, heirloom quilts and textile art ever since.
I love the concept of "place" and so my preferred subject matter is the landscape. Over the years I have created a broad range of work from bed quilts to wall hangings, postcard size to mural size, traditional to abstract, and wearables. I also teach and lecture on various aspects of quilting.
News
I have added new quilts to these pages: Freedom's Box and What Do Dogs Dream About?. They were both in a special exhibition, "President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts" at the Cafritz Arts Center, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland.
Studio Art Quilt Associates' Benefit Auction 2009 is beginning; over 100 art quilts (each one foot square) have been donated for the September 10 auction. Here is my donation, "Spring, Captured". The base is hand-painted cotton, over which I have sewn squares of a double layer of hand-painted organza with flower blossoms between the layers. The small squares are attached only at the top so they "float" upwards.
I have been awarded a Margaret M Conant Grant, and a William A. Strauss fellowship. I am exploring making three-dimensional thread sculptures with the funds. "Green Leaf Tea" is an example. It is about 8 inches high, and made only of cotton threads:
(Photo courtesy Dan Moore, taken at Wichita Center for the Arts).
See my thread sculptures gallery for more. I also am making jewelry!
