Design Concept

In February of 2020, we visited Torres del Paine National Park in Southern Chile. On one of our hikes, we found a large heard of Guanacos, who did not seem to mind if we walked among them and took their pictures. We also noticed that each heard had a sentry posted on top of a nearby hill to warn the group when a puma was in the area. This photo reminded me of one of the sentries.

To create the design, I combined elements from two different photos with digital painting. One photo was of the guanaco, and the other was of the Andes mountain range, shrouded in clouds. The background was digitally painted, and the edges were faded to white. The finished design was printed by Spoonflower in two pieces and appliqued together to form the complete image.  The matching binding strips were printed at the same time.

The image of the guanaco is very heavily quilted with dozens of different colors of thread and the sky and outer edges are quilted in a meandering, and spiraling pattern.

Exhibitions:

• Visuals 3 Quilt Competition: Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival Online, February 24-27, 2021 (second place)
• Photos Pixels & Pizzazz, (solo exhibition) Latimer Center for Quilts and Textiles, Tillamook, OR, May 3-June 27, 2021
• Landscape Quilts, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, October 28 thru 31, 2021
• Road to California, Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, CA, January 18-22, 2022
• AQS Quilt Week Branson, Branson Convention Center, Branson, MO, March 23–26, 2022
• AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Schroeder Convention Center, Paducah, KY, April 27-30, 2022 (Third Place: Pictorial)
• Reflections of Light: Recent Works by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, July 13 to October 30, 2022
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Digital Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Special exhibition, Road to California Quilters Conference, Ontario, CA, January 17-21, 2023
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset Iowa, December 12, 2023 - March 10, 2023
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden CO, 7/22 – 10/19, 2024

Publications

• None as of 10/15/2024