Katharina Litchman
My lifelong love and care for domestic and wild animals, flowers and plants inspires me to recreate them in my textile art.
Fins and Friends 46 x 35″ For hours, I just floated, about 20 feet above. I, on the surface, in mask and snorkel, the natives of Caribbean reef below, oblivious of me peering down. Physically not so far apart, yet we inhabited separate worlds. Here sunlight pierced the water, illuminating the colors. The clouds cast […]
34 x 34″ NFS Details:
Goddess of Wisdom 6 x 6 “ box Framed 8 x 8″
6 x 6 “ – sold –
25.75 x 36″ Waya – Wolf in Cherokee Quote from www.Defenders of Wildlife.org “Barely back from the brink of extinction, wolves everywhere are under the gun. Wyoming has become a free-fire zone throughout most of the state, wolves from the Yellowstone National Park packs are being shot just outside the park boundary and in North […]
38 x 30″ Mufasa was inspired by a friend’s very beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat, a stray found at the race track. I used hand dyed fabrics. Underneath the heavily quilted Mufasa are hundreds of small pieces in a variety of shades of brown, beige, whites. He is Machine appliqued to the background and then free-motion […]
17 x 17″
28 x 19″
21 x 21″ – Sold –
27 x 19 “ Detail As I poured water into the reservoir of my self-watering flower pot . . . out popped this toad. He made it clear that this was his home (but he didn’t mind my flooding it). He remained for the summer. He had the mien of a Prince. Would […]
24 x 21 “
23 x 23″
Delphinium – hand-pieced petals, machine appliquéd. Background hand dyed,-guided machine quilted. 51 x 36″
21 x 16.5″
12 x 12″ – Sold –
12 x 12″ – Sold –
35.25 x 22 inches This piece was inspired by the drought in California as well as other parts of the world. We are depleting our water resources to the point where we are drawing irrigation waters for lawns, pools, and agriculture from aquifers where it cannot be replenished. The pump in this piece is reaching […]
9 x 7″ – Sold –
11 x 11″ – Sold –
12 x 12″ – Sold –
19 x19″ – Sold –
11 x 7″ – Sold – After watching The Dust Bowl (American Experience on PBS) and the news about the serious drought out west, I made this piece and donated it to the new SAQA traveling trunk show. “Dought”, 7×11 inches and has been juried into the permanent collection of the National Quilt Museum in […]
33 x 33″
17 x 17″ – Sold –
