Debbie Jones is a fiber artist who specializes in fabric collage and art quilts.  Her fascination with color and love of fabric started as a young child.  At age two, she began designing clothes, which eventually led to a business in fashion design and sewing.  In 1991, after winning a quilt in a charity raffle, she became intrigued with quilts and decided to try making them herself.  After studying techniques from world-renowned quilting instructors, she began to create one-of-a-kind art quilts that express her artistic flair, working both by hand and by machine.

Then an auto accident sidelined Debbie’s health, and her quilting, for a few years.  While recovering, she felt compelled to find another outlet for her fabric art that would be easier on her injured neck and back than sewing.  So she developed a technique for gluing fabric, rather than sewing, which evolved into her fabric collage technique. 

Debbie chooses from thousands of fabrics, including hand-dyed, hand-painted, airbrushed, batiked and marbled fabrics, along with commercially-made fabrics, which she has either collected or created herself.  Also, collectors of her art send fabrics from around the world, which she includes in her artwork.  Debbie cuts the fabrics using a free-form technique, usually with no pre-conceived pattern or design.  Starting with only a color scheme in mind, she is inspired by the various fabrics, from which she envisions trees, mountains, rocks and water.    Her collages are, at once, serene and peaceful, sometimes with an Oriental feel about them. 

Now that her neck and back have healed, Debbie is making art quilts again and continues to make fabric collages with renewed energy and enthusiasm.  She enjoys the meditative feeling she experiences during the creative process and loves knowing that collectors of her art enjoy the final results.  Her art quilts and fabric collages are in collections around the world.

Always looking for a creative challenge, Debbie welcomes the opportunity for custom orders.  She works from her studio in Venice, Florida and would be pleased to meet with you by appointment.  She is also experienced in working with clients who live out of the area, via photography, email and phone.