Quilt Art
The first group of its kind in Europe, Quilt Art was founded in Great Britain in 1985 to develop the quilt as an artistic medium and promote its recognition as an art form. Its members are leading practitioners who exhibit nationally and internationally. Many of them have won significant awards and have been selected to […]
PatCHquilt
PatCHquilt is the Swiss association of quilters. Its aim is to support all Swiss creators in their patchwork, quilting, and textile art projects.Its goal is to promote mutual contacts among members and to foster knowledge and appreciation of textile art in the country.PatCHquilt serves as the central point of contact for national and international calls […]
Martine Apaolaza
After years of varied experiences in textiles, clothing, and patchwork, along with some essential courses, Martine has been working almost exclusively by hand for about thirty years. She primarily creates houses in appliqué, including reverse appliqué to enhance perspective, which is a signature of her work.She also adds appliquéd or embroidered characters, often accompanied by […]
Marina Landi
Marina Landi is a fine arts graduate.She worked for many years creating decorative mosaics for large surfaces such as walls, pools, and furniture.Around the year 2000, she discovered patchwork and fell in love with this art, which shares many similarities with mosaics. That’s when she applied her knowledge, experience, and techniques to create her artistic […]
Maria Stoller
Maria Stoller was born in the United States and has lived in Switzerland for over 40 years. She has always loved textiles and making objects. Her first textile works were quilts, which gradually became figurative and inventive.In 2006, she discovered drawing and painting, which greatly influenced her work. Today, Maria works as a mixed-media artist, […]
Malgorzata Joanna Jenek
Malgorzata Joanna Jenek is a quilter, designer, and patchwork teacher, originally from Poland and now living in Germany. Sewing and crafting have been her passion since she was very young. She started by making clothes for her dolls. A few years later, she created thousands of garments for her friends and herself.Patchwork and hand appliqué […]
Léna Meszaros
Léna Meszaros is of Hungarian and Russian origin, living in France, where she discovered patchwork in the 1990s. Through contemporary patchwork, she finds her personal expression in figurative art quilts, which she transposes into mixed media. The use of various materials in her creations—acrylic pouring, plastic, metal, recycled cardboard—pushes her toward 3D.She employs different techniques […]
Justine Cow
In the beginning, there is a large house, a beautiful sibling group, a huge vegetable garden, a hut, a forest, games, and no television. Justine and Cow grew up in the Val d’Argent, in Lièpvre, at Bois l’Abbesse.After training as a crystal cutter (Baccarat), Justine became known in the valley for her wood paintings. It […]
Jacques Légeret & Hans Zogg
Swiss journalist Jacques Légeret was ‘adopted’ by an Old Order Amish family in 1986, along with his wife and son. Over several stays, he lived for about 26 months with Amish families in Pennsylvania and Indiana. This gave him access to the ‘hope chests,’ wooden chests in which Amish women store their wedding quilts. His […]
Irina Timofeeva
Irina Timofeeva started sewing in childhood. At the age of 20, she discovered patchwork and quilting. For many years, she has been making quilts and collecting fabrics.Most of her quilts are modern, but she also enjoys working with traditional techniques as it’s the best way to showcase her collection of thousands of fabrics.She loves fine […]