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Tricuspid Biomorph #2
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  • Copyright © 2025 Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
  • Size: 64" wide x 80" high
  • Techniques: dye painting, photography, digital design, digital painting, digital printing, machine quilting
  • Materials: Fabric: 100% cotton • Batting:  50% cotton / 50% bamboo • Thread: polyester & acrylic
  • Price: $18000.00
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• Email • Phone: 360-385-2568 • Snail Mail: Bryerpatch Studio •10 Baycliff Place. • Port Townsend, WA 98368
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Design Concept

In 2025, I resurrected a series of designs I drew in 1995, based on radially symmetrical hexagons.

I placed the hexagonal shape in a rectangle and played with it, extending the lines within the hexagon to the edges of the rectangle and tweaking them until I had a line drawing I liked. I turned the line drawing into a series of closed shapes and filled the spaces between the lines with colors and gradations in cool tones. I added additional shapes to make the design more interesting. I photographed a fabric which I hand painted and used the photographic image to fill the background shapes.
When I was satisfied with the design and colors, I did some additional playing with a hue function to reverse the colors to their compliments (opposites on the color wheel).

I turned the second color variation into a square rather than a rectangle and had both versions printed in different sizes. This design, the larger of the two, was delayed at the printer, so I quilted the smaller, warmer hued piece first, making this #2 in the series.
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This piece was heavily quilted with dozens of different decorative patterns. I used contrasting colors of #40 polyester and acrylic threads so the patterns would be visible from a distance. Although the design is non-representational, it has many of the shapes and colors that are found in nature, especially in the plant world. I invented a title that sounded like the scientific name for a plant species.

Just for fun, I added a quilted humming bird in the lower right corner. The shape of the humming bird came from a photo my husband Ron Gentry took in my garden in 2019. I invented the colors.

The backing fabric, in two color-ways is from one the collections I designed for Benartex.

Exhibitions:

  • 2025 International Quilt Festival’s Judged Show, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, October 9–12, 2025 (Master Award for Machine Artistry)
  • Texas Quilt Museum – International Quilt Festival Winner’s Exhibit, La Grange, TX, January  8th  - April 25th , 2026

Publications

  • The Quintessential Quilt, 2025 International Quilt Festival Program, p. 61
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Updated 10/15/2025