Artist's Statement

 Marty Freeman 

The desire to create comes from the generations of women who came before me who created out of necessity to provide warmth for thier families through the clothes on thier backs and the quilts on the beds. Their love shone in the care and time to stitch together a thing of beauty. Vintage imagiery inspires me, folk stories paired with the techinques my Granny Jennie Pearl showed me growing up. I mix mediums: block printing, hand sewing, and embroidery in my pursuit to create.