ROZ SCHUETTPELZ

I’ve been making art all my life.  My mother, her sister, and two of her nieces were art teachers.  I love to sew, too… so art quilts became a favorite medium (also that I don’t like to follow a pattern; just do my own thing). I was a home economics teacher and an art teacher.

Being an art teacher, I had to know how to work with lots of mediums. I also paint with watercolors and make collages.  I love hand building and wheel throwing clay, but won’t ever try to have my own studio.  If I could go back, I wish I would have taken up jewelry making/silversmithing…lapidary…

Currently, my studio is in a spare bedroom, but usually spills over to my living room.  When I  start a project, I usually go right to my fabric stash. To begin a quilt, I often combine stack of fabrics first. Then, I contemplate “subject”.  That might depend on what I did last, nature or art I’ve recently seen, my mood…. I might flip through my “idea book”. I like to do landscapes, woman figures, leaves/ nature, or horses, or “shapes” and abstracts.