Amy Ferron

Formation

Base

Master quilter — decades of practice

Spatial logic of quilting: positive/negative, light/dark, hard-edged seam as composition

Based

Lopez Island, Washington — San Juan Islands

Studio at 645 Bayshore Road · Lopez Island Artists Studio Tour

Influences

Henri Rousseau — flat botanical planes, imagined worlds

Influences

Rex Ray (1956–2015) — painted-paper collage, hard-edged graphic forms

SFMOMA collection; comparisons to Klee and Matisse

Exhibitions

Museum

Whatcom Museum — Bellingham, WA

Museum

Cascadia Art Museum — Edmonds, WA

Institutional

Washington State Convention Center — Seattle, WA

Institutional

Seattle City Hall — Seattle, WA

Gallery

Ryan James Fine Arts — Kirkland, WA

Gallery

Kirkland Arts Center — Kirkland, WA

Festival

Anacortes Arts Festival — juried fine art show

Ongoing

JG Art Gallery + Events — Bainbridge Island & Park City

Gallery Representation

Past

Harris Harvey Gallery — Seattle, WA

Registry

San Juan Island Museum of Art — Artists Registry

Annual

Lopez Island Artists Studio Tour

Process

Step 1

Paint or print background surface

Step 2

Apply handmade paper, hand-painted paper, purchased papers, maps

Adhered in layers to build depth and spatial planes

Tools

Scissors · rotary cutters · X-acto knives

Quilter's cutting vocabulary applied to paper

Subjects

Garden scenes · seascapes · nocturnal landscapes

Titles: moonlight, silver sun, stars, invisible — consistent dusk register

Critical Context

Lineage

Rousseau tradition — flat saturated planes, constructed botanical world

Not observed landscape but assembled from the studio

Lineage

Rex Ray — graphic hard-edge paper collage bridging design and fine art

Mid-century modernism, Dada, Pop: decorative pattern as serious form

Quilting

Fabric-to-paper translation — seam logic becomes cut edge

Light/dark management from decades of quilting practice

Works at JG

Range

21 works — nocturnal garden scenes, Salish Sea dreamscapes

The Night Embraces Everything · The Earth Laughs Flowers · Under A Silver Sun · At Night We Believe