Peggy Brown: Transparent watercolour art quilts

If your partner comes home with a new library book, don’t be too quick to dismiss it – it may be the beginning of your new career!

For self-taught watercolour artist, now award-winning US art quilter Peggy Brown, this certainly was the case. An ex-journalist and mother of three young boys in the 1970s, Peggy delighted in a break from the chores. The watercolour book that her husband, Jim, brought home from the library, gave her a chance to relax and indulge herself in her childhood love of art.

Once opened and the paintbox wetted, painting became an obsession – and the beginning of Peggy’s trajectory to US art quilt royalty.

Peggy began – initially on paper and later on fabric – for her own enjoyment. But she gains true fulfilment through uniting with her viewers through her vision and the marks that she makes. In the same way, she sees her works as collaborations between herself, the artist, and her medium – watercolour.