Suzanne Alexander

Meet PAPA Artist, Suzanne Alexander. Her creative medium of choice is fabric and textiles.

After retirement, I joined PAPA with my husband, Charles whose medium of choice is oil paint. I never would have guessed this group of painters would have such an influence on my quilting! I confess to being a scrappy quilter and I really enjoy incorporating fabric with a little history such as my grandmother’s sewing scraps. I also am very conscious of the importance of recycling and reusing and it’s pretty common to find fabrics from old clothing in my quilts.

Taking on some of the PAPA challenges intended for painting artists has presented an unique challenge and improved my quilt designs a lot! Some of these attempts turn out pretty good while others are destined to be cut up and used in other projects, but all of them take me a little further down the road of my creative journey.