NICQUI WILLIS 'Chanticleer'

Nicqui took up patchwork and quilting in the 1990’s quite by chance when asked by a friend to fill a space on a quilting workshop. Having always sown she initially dabbled a little with traditional patchwork but found her creative textile voice on becoming an early member of the Committed to Cloth community in 2002. She completed a City and Guilds in Patchwork and Quilting with Janice Gunner in 2015, exhibited at Festival of Quilts the following year as a Diploma graduate and was also nominated for the Medal of Excellence.  Her work is nearly always wholecloth using a combination of surface design techniques and can be found in a number of publications and private collections. More recently she has focused on the use of earth pigments and acrylic paint in combination with procion and natural dyes and has rediscovered the joy of hand stitch. A member of the Quilters Guild, The Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates.