Q&A Portfolio for Rose Rushbrooke

Rose Rushbrooke creates Fractal Art Quilts. What are fractals? Simply put they are mathematically generated patterns repeated at every scale.

Is it necessary to understand the mathematical element of fractals to create images? Of course not. The software to generate fractal pictures is available to anyone who wants to download it onto their computer. The images produced are similar to psychedelic art and can be interpreted in the same way as one would ink blots or clouds. Rose uses this initial fractal design to create her art quilts.

Each piece represents a journal entry into Rose's book of life. Whether it be about her physical situation, or a reaction to an event - it is a simple personal view and can be related to as the everyday human experience.

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$Upon Reaching Middle Age: Grease fractal art quilt$
Upon Reaching Middle Age: Grease
© Rose Rushbrooke 2004
82" x 62"

This piece is shiny with grease, globular with fat and is dimpled with cellulite. Where did the slim, lithe young body go?
Machine pieced and quilted.

$Summer Haze aka Volcanic Pizza fractal art quilt$
Summer Haze aka Volcanic Pizza
© Rose Rushbrooke 2002
14" x 14"

A gorgeous summer day in England, the gladioli are blooming in the cottage gardens and the sky is clear blue. Doesn't this piece look like a pizza!
Hand appliquéd, embroidered, manipulated, beaded, tied and quilted using hand dyed cotton muslin, polyester, embroidery floss, silk ribbon, glass beads and variegated cotton quilting thread.

A sizzling hot meteor has landed on ice and melts its way through leaving ripples on the surface of the water.
Hand pieced, appliquéd, embroidered and quilted using hand dyed and quilters cotton, velvet and cotton embroidery floss.

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