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  • Copyright © 2014 Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
  • Size: 30" x 30"
  • Techniques: Hand dyed, machine pieced, appliqued, and quilted
  • Materials: fabric-100% cotton / batting: 50% cotton 50% bamboo
  • Price: $4600.00
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If you would like to purchase or exhibit this quilt, please contact Caryl privately.
Email • Phone: 360-385-2568 • Snail Mail: Bryerpatch Studio •10 Baycliff Place. • Port Townsend, WA 98368
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Design Concept

This quilt began with a small sketch made in 1989, shortly after returning from Australia and the Great Barrier Reef for the first time.  I have kept the sketch for many years, and have made a new interpretation almost every time I returned from a snorkeling trip. The shape of the fish bodies and tails are a kind of fantasy amalgam of many different species. The colors and patterns were inspired by parrot fish and other brilliantly-colored tropical fish.
Full size drawing on freezer paper
The quilt top began with a full size drawing on freezer paper. This was cut up to make templates for cutting my fabric. Some of the fabric was hand dyed and the rest is from the various collections I have designed for Benartex. The green and yellow dots were appliqued. The rest of the shapes were pieced, using my hybrid “applipiecing” technique. The quilting in the fish tails was done with the feed-dogs up, and the rest was free-motion quilted with the feed-dogs dropped.

Exhibitions:

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  • Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, & Motion, University Museum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, January 26 - April 16, 2016
  • Fantasias in Fiber & Beads: (two person show) Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA, May 5-29, 2016.
  • Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry: 40 Years of Color, Light, & Motion
  • Color, Light, & Motion: Fine Art Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Art at the Old Alcohol Plant Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA, July 8-August 26, 2018
  • Fiber II, A National Juried Show, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA, Oct. 5-28, 2018  
  • Green Blue Magic, Port Townsend School of Art Gallery, Port Townsend, WA, April 1-29, 2019  
  • Fur, Fangs, Feathers, & Fins, SAQA juried exhibition, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, April 2, 2022 –June 17, 2022 and traveling through December 31, 2025 (venues tba)

Publications

  • None as of 7/20/21
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Updated 7/20/21