Layers of Meaning

Marta Amundson

Marta Amundson This page is in Swedish, which is a bit of a problem for comprehension of the text, at least for me. Luckily, the page is mostly photographs - wonderful closeup photos of Marta Amundson's quilts. You can actually see the richness of the textures and layerings in her work; strawberries on a cake so real that you want to stick your finger in and have a taste, Bleeding Heart flowers created with paint and thread.

Amundson's colors are wonderful. In an interview in the Albion College alumni newsletter, Amundson says, 'The colors in my work are bold combinations that would make Emil Nolde or Henri Matisse proud but raise the hair on granny’s neck.'

The quilt image is from her gallery work, which has a dozen or so of Amundson's quilts on view on the web. Most of her works involve animals and nature, which she observes in her daily life in Wyoming.

image by Marta Amundson