Mary Pascoe is a quilt artist who lives and works in Palm Harbor, Florida. She learned to sew from her mother and has been fascinated by quilts for a long time. Over the years she has made several full sized and many baby quilts. She found her unique methods later in life after a career in health care and computer programming. A long-time lover of animals, quilts, and colorful fabrics, she was able to put those passions together to create her original art.
Mary knew that she wanted create pictures with colorful fabric, but she didn’t care for the usual ways of doing it. Everything “clicked'' in 2017 when she found inspiration in the work of several artists that she admired, including Danny Amazonas and Susan Carlson. That inspiration led her to create her own methods and designs.
Mary first finds the right animal or person photo as a guide to create her one-of-a-kind art. Starting with the eyes, she uses hand-cut cotton fabric pieces to “paint” her colorful quilt pictures. She then adds batting and a backing fabric and quilts around each piece to create the special texture of the finished quilt art.
Mary Pascoe’s Etsy shop includes quilted art as well as prints, mugs, and tote bags with her unique designs.
