I met Susan Garfield-Wright
when I taught a Zentangle® class at the Cancer Connection in Northampton, Mass. I taught the class while researching the correlation between participating in a Zentangle class and well-being.
Zentangle describes an easy to learn and relaxing method of creating beautiful images from structured patterns.
It was Garfield-Wright's first Zentangle class. At right, is the artwork she created.
Self-described as an art quilter, Garfield-Wright realized during the class that "these designs are meant to be quilted on things.”

So she headed over to A Notion to Quilt in Shelburne, MA and used the longarm quilting machine to experiment with "drawing" Zentangle patterns with thread.
When creating as a photographer, I often shoot multiple exposures, that is, taking several pictures in succession of the same subject and then programming my camera to layer the variations into a single image.
My goal with this process of abstracting reality is to portray the inner essence of a subject by presenting multiple views simultaneously.
From ink and paper, to thread and cloth, to light and pixels.
Note: This fall I will be teaching the Zentangle drawing method at A Notion to Quilt. The classes will progress from learning Zentangle fundamentals to applying these creative concepts to the world of quilting. © John Nordell
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