EILEEN WILLIAMS

Eileen moved to the Crystal Coast in 1988 and began quilting about the same time. Starting as a traditional quilter, she eventually became attracted to the idea of quilting as an art form and began expanding her creativity to explore the world of fiber art. Eileen feels that the beauty of coastal North Carolina is a constant source of inspiration and her quilts reflect images captured in photographs from her travels and her exploration of the Crystal Coast. To create the visual images, whether they be realistic or something from the minds’ “eye”, a wide variety of techniques are employed, such as appliqué, thread painting, fabric surface painting, embellishing, traditional piecing, collage, photo transfer, and finally, plain old experimentation. Each quilt is an original one of a kind.

Eileen has won numerous awards for her workmanship and she has displayed and sold her work in several galleries to private collectors. She was the featured artist for the September 2005 Arts Alive magazine following a personal exhibition of her work at the Western Carteret Library. Her work was selected for an exhibition of contemporary quilts-- “On and Off the Wall” (February – May 2005)--at the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina.

She is a member of the Crystal Coast Quilt Guild, the American Quilting Society, the International Quilt Association and the Artragous Art Quilt group. Eileen’s fiber art is exhibited at the Mattie King Davis Gallery in Beaufort, North Carolina, and at the Tidewater Gallery in Swansboro, North Carolina. Eileen currently resides along the Intracoastal waterway in Cedar Point, North Carolina.

To see more of Eileens work, you can go to her web site by clicking here.