Clairan Ferrono is a full time studio artist living in Chicago. For the past ten years her work has been extensively shown locally and throughout the Midwest, and, more recently, both nationally and internationally. In 2004 she was awarded an exhibition grant by the Illinois chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her art quilts are in many private collections. Currently Clairan’s work can be viewed at www.artquiltsonline.com.

Windows: September
$250

Canvas, cottons, silk, thread
Painted, hand dyed, drawn with markers and pastels, machine appliquéd and quilter

I am an obsessive observer of windows; to me they are a definitive urban feature. Walls of windows with their reflections, architectural details, curtains, blinds and shades are a readymade, constantly changing feast of pattern. Windows are the structure for my current series about seasons and holidays. Color and stitching provide the emotional surface reality, but the underlying skeleton is the layering of windows, the “historical” context of time and change.