about
ANDREA FINCH
showing at beech springs farm

Once a traditional flat quilter, my work has left the surface to become sculptures that taunt the viewer to reach out and touch. My garden as it changes from season to season is the inspiration for my work. I start with botanical forms of leaves, flowers, or weeds, reducing the designs to more abstract forms, and finding the essence of the structure. I create art to show aspects of the natural world that few stop to observe and serve as a start for conversations about saving our flora and fauna. I use all textiles, new and vintage conventional quilting fabrics, repurposed quilts I made or collected, reclaimed tablecloths, curtains, and clothing from family and friends, salvaged upholstery textiles, and decorator samples diverted from landfills. Viewing my wall of collected fabric, fabrics will catch my eye bringing color, texture, or pattern to my art. Each piece is a unique collection of hand-cut fabrics, stitched together with liberal use of thread by dense machine quilting and top-stitching through multiple layers of fabric and batting, and occasionally stuffed or wired. The fabrics form the stiffness needed to defy gravity to create the desired shape. In my work I am saving memories, the environment and creating art that is accessible to everyone. Art that makes you smile in a world that can be so bleak. I am creating a whimsical garden of flowers and vessels with ties to my family and community.

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Living in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, I'm a juried SAQA artist (Studio Art Quilts Associates), and I sit on the board of the Virginia Quilt Museum in Dayton, Virginia.

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My work can be found at the Foundry Art Market in Chambersburg www.foundryartmarket.com, various galleries, museums, public and private collections, and juried exhibitions across the country.

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To see more of my work visit www.afinchsongcreation.com or email me at afinchsong@gmail.com