It’s in the Shadows   Irene Roderick   60 x 72 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT For “It’s in the Shadows,” I reverted back to improvisational playing on my design wall and making new work not [...]

  Ghosts   Irene Roderick   60 x 72 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT “Ghosts” was one of the last Guardians. I wasn’t intending to make any more in this series, but I felt I needed to [...]

  Celebration   Irene Roderick   61 x 73 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT “Celebration” was made during the Inauguration of 2021. After such a long period of isolation, coping with the constant anxiety of the election [...]

  Big Blue   Irene Roderick   70 x 83 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT I made “Big Blue” after “Ninja” and had some Marcia Derse fabric left over as well as some old indigo fabrics I [...]

  Ninja   Irene Roderick   60 x 77 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT “Ninja” began as a challenge to combine my way of making skinny line curves with the curved lines Jenny Haynes teaches. I took [...]

  Royalty   Irene Roderick   71 x 83 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT In the making of “Royalty,” I was determined to use only fabric I had on hand and my own hand-dyed fabrics. Even though I [...]

  Celebration of Indigo   Irene Roderick   57 x 77 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT In the making of “Celebration of Indigo,” I was determined to use only fabric I had on hand and my own [...]

  Best Friends   Irene Roderick   61 x 86 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT “Best Friends” was the first Guardian quilt I made. I was determined to use only the fabric I had on hand and [...]

  Black Spring   Irene Roderick   68 x 76 inches   2021 ARTIST STATEMENT In Spring 2021, Austin suffered a devastating 5-day hard freeze. Luckily, I didn’t lose power or water, but most of the area [...]