Peninsula Gallery
Fine Art & Custom Framing
Conservation & Restoration
Guest Artist of the Month
Sarah Pavlik
March 1 - 31, 2023
The Peninsula Gallery's Guest Artist program highlights a different artist each month. The line-up of participants includes our gallery's repeat exhibitors, as well as artists entirely new to the space. Visit the gallery each month to see the guest artist's special collection and follow our Facebook and Instagram pages to learn behind-the-scenes information about their background and creative process.
 “Building Blocks” 13” x 10” image gallery wrapped fiber $295 |  “Jazz” 20” x 24” image gallery wrapped fiber $475 |  “Off Kilter” 10” x 8” image gallery wrapped fiber $295 |
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 “Childhood Series: Lost” 12” x 12” image gallery wrapped fiber $325 |  “Childhood Series: Found” 12” x 12” image gallery wrapped fiber $325 |  “Childhood Series: Resilience” 24” x 24” image gallery wrapped fiber $575 |
 “Childhood Series: Adolescence” 40” x 16” image gallery wrapped fiber $625 |  “Childhood Series: 3+4=7” 12” x 12” image gallery wrapped fiber $325 |  “Childhood Series: Jungle Jim” 30” x 15” image gallery wrapped fiber $495 |
For the first guest artist of 2023, we're pleased to welcome back local fiber artist, Sarah Pavlik. Her quilts will be on display from March 1-31.
Sarah Pavlik is a fiber and quilt artist. Her artistic process typically involves using a motif or configuration as inspiration in creating a composition. Sarah explores the possibilities, often improvising to create new configurations. She strives for figure-ground tension and a composition that encourages the viewer to move their eyes around the piece, finding interest throughout the work. Once the piece is completed, it is quilted, typically with dense amounts of stitching to complement the work. Making art quilts requires both creative thought and expertise in the construction of the work. Sarah continually explores new territory by working in a series, modifying piece after piece. She continues to evolve as an artist pushing herself to create new work in her own artistic voice.
Sarah has been studying with world-renowned quilt artist, Nancy Crow, for almost 20 years. Since beginning this art form, Sarah has won numerous awards and exhibited her work in galleries in the Washington DC area, New York, Indiana, and Delaware. She is a member of the Lewes Artist Studio Tour, where artists open their studios to the public every year on the third Saturday in September.
Method
"My fiber art journey began by making traditional quilts. I then became interested in art quilts after discovering artists Nancy Crow and Gwen Marston. While Gwen Marston pushed the limits of traditional quilt blocks, Nancy Crow was pushing the idea of improvisational piecing and original design. In her workshops, she demands originality and the searching for one’s personal 'voice' in creating shapes, lines, and figure-ground studies that exemplify the tension between design elements, in one’s own style. An idea may originate from realism but quickly becomes abstracted, stretched, exaggerated, or varied to create a dynamic composition.
I am continually striving to create original work. I often work in solid colored fabric, but continue to explore techniques in 'surface design,' where I design my own cloth which may become a 'whole cloth' quilt or be cut up and sewn together again in a pieced composition. I am always interested in exploring new ideas. I tend to work in a series, where one piece will lead to another, and another, and another: experimentation, trial and error, 'what if?'... these things are always spinning in my head…"