Jette Clover is a journalist, art historian, curator and fiber artist. She was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has lived 14 years in California and Seattle, WA, then 20 years in the Netherlands, 4 years in Florida and since 2005 in Antwerp, Belgium, where she maintains a studio and teaches design and dyeing classes.
Jette has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the US, and she has acted as a curator and a juror for many international exhibitions. Her work is represented in international collections.

Jette is the author of European Art Quilts (1997), The Art of Joan Schulze (1999), Scandinavian Quilts (2001) and she published the book Naden/ Seams about her own quilts and collages together with the Dutch writer Herman Coenen in 2001.
Jette is a member of the European group Quilt Art, the Art Quilt Network/New York, the Fiber Gallery, SAQA and the Surface Design Association.

Marks the Spot I
$ 250

Cotton, netting, cheesecloth
Rusting process, screen printing, hand- and machine quilting

I am fascinated by the rusting process, by the spontaneous and unpredictable design and coloring. I react to the marks and colors of the organic process by putting down my marks in the form of painted and printed images and words. A dialog with nature about markmaking.