Alexandra Kingswell’s artwork is the combination of two of her biggest passions: textiles and color. Using mainly solid color fabrics in bright and saturated hues, she makes quilt-like designs formed of geometric shapes. Her patchwork is very precisely sewn and contains no embellishments with the finished design sometimes stretched over a canvas stretcher, and other times not.
According to Kingswell, her love of color goes all the way back to her childhood, when she sorted her colored pencils into pleasing sequences. “Color! I love it when it creates drama and impact, when it dances before your eyes, when it stirs the soul and fires the imagination,” she writes on her website.
Her love of textile came later, having earned a degree in communications design and after a fruitful career as a graphic designer. “I get pleasure from creating things,” says Kingswell, “things that are so much more than the sum of their parts – finding new patterns by exploring the beauty of color, number, sequence, and proportion through the medium of fabric.”
Her aim with her work? To lift spirits and make people smile. “And also intrigue them a little!” A good enough cause as any.
