Leah Evans

I feel very drawn to the work of Leah Evans,

She is a textile artist who makes quilts, each piece features a map which is hand sewn in fine detail forming an almost abstract pattern.

She uses applique, dying needle felting hand printing and a variety of embroidery techniques.

I love her colour pallet and the simplicity of her marks.

she uses imagery from maps, aerial photography and satellite images. However she doesn't simply translate maps onto quilts, instead she creates imaginary lands and uses elements from different maps. 

I thought this quilt below was very similar to Louise's style of work.

 Leah also works to the more minute systems of the microbial world. She enjoys the play in scale between magnified microbial life forms and remote sensing images of huge tracts of land. Both scales deal with the translation of scientific information into a visual form. At times, these separate bodies of work merge. The overlap is seen in vessel-like arteries of water, tundra pools that look cellular, and microbes that swim through to pographic lines. The piece below is simply gorgeous.