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Background:
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Pam Johnson moved to
the United States in 1980 and worked in management for 13
years at Digital Equipment Corporation, a major computer
company in the Boston area. She and her husband, Bill (BJ),
live full time in Monterey.
Pam has been creating art quilts since 1981, and has made
quilts using a variety of techniques including: piecing,
machine thread painting, hand and machine appliqué, trapunto
and hand and machine quilting.
Gardening has been a life-long passion and the inspiration
for quilts in the Woodland and Garden series, which are all
machine pieced and quilted. The process involves creating a
sketch, often based on photographs or detail drawings,
developing that into a master piecing diagram with each
element numbered and from those creating templates. The
fabrics are all cotton. Most are designed especially for
quilting, but some are decorator fabrics. Selecting the
dozens of fabrics in each quilt from hundreds laid out in
the studio takes the most time. All the pieces are pinned to
the design wall before starting sewing to ensure the colors
work together, to create illusions of depth, light and
shadow and to create overall balance.
Recently Pam has been experimenting with
non-representational work and different construction
techniques.
Pam studied Botanical Drawing, Graphite Levels I & II at the
New York Botanical Garden and Colored Pencil at the
Berkshire Botanical Garden; she has taken water color
classes focused on drawing from nature, has twice taken Ruth
B. McDowell's week long art quilt design classes and also
classes from professional art quilters Jude Patoka and
Pamela Allen.
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