email: abeasley@sbcglobal.net
website: www.alicebeasley.com

Alice has been making fabric portraits in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988. Her goal from the start has been to use fabric as a medium of expression. She incorporates the same light, shadow and realistic perspective used by artists in other media, but without the use of paint, dyes or other surface treatments. Instead Alice uses the ordinary quilter's tools of commercial fabric and thread. She uses unexpected prints rather than solid colors to recreate the complexities of the human form in her portraits and to make vibrant still life compositions. All pieces are cut free-hand with scissors or rotary cutter and machine appliqued.  Most recently she has moved from the layered “quilt” form to fabric compositions that are either stretched on canvas or mounted on a rigid surface such as foamboard. She's proud to be part of the exciting movement that is taking the woman's work we call quilting from "art" to ART!