Claudia Kimbrough – Textile Artist
Claudia was born with a love of color and an intuitive feel for combining colors in pleasing and interesting ways, She loves putting pieces of different kinds of materials together to make new things.
Her art is free-flowing, impressionistic, and abstract. Each piece captures the essence of the object or idea, rather than an exact representation. Wabi-sabi imperfection makes each piece unique and true to her vision. (If you need straight lines and perfect corners, please look elsewhere! )
Her focus is textile and paper collage, as well as art quilting and appliqué. Her paper and textile art uses recycled and found materials, along with new fabrics – because textile people can’t resist acquiring more fabric! Like her collages, her quilts seldom use existing patterns. Instead, each one tells a story, capturing memories of places she’s and people in her life.
Born and raised in Berkeley, California, she fell in love with Japanese art and culture at a young age. Many of her current works reflect her recent travels to Japan and feature new and vintage kimono silks from those trips.
