"Textiles have a remarkable ability to hold memory. I stitch pieces of collected fabrics and textile waste together to create sustainable art that celebrates nature and memory."
Liberty Worth pieces fabrics, paper, and scraps together using unconventional, improvisational quilting techniques. The swirling shapes emerge from the trees, mountains, and coastal inspirations of her sketchbook and collage practices into mounted textile wall paintings. Her work takes cues from nature, exploding into bright color directions that recall memories and visual moments— the inside of an anemone, patterns on a shell, or the never ending shades of green in a forest. Living in coastal California, Liberty knows first-hand the way nature can heal the rough and broken places we carry in our hearts. She has experienced the healing that comes when we as humans hold our grief out and let the wind and sunshine swirl around it showing us how brokenness can be present but also beautiful. Liberty's art is a practice of gathering and mending broken pieces into new, fragmented-yet-whole stories—a hope that healing is possible with time.
Combining traditional sewing arts and unconventional, improvisational collage techniques, Liberty Worth is a mixed-media quilter and fiber artist. Her work reads as paintings. Each piece is unique and individually crafted from the artist's hand.
Liberty Worth studied Fine Arts at Pepperdine University where she took a life-changing summer abroad and studied textile design in Florence, Italy, through SACI. She worked as a designer in interior textiles for six years, taking many evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Center College of Design. Her sewing and quilting skills came by way of neighbors and friends made through the Modern Quilt Guild over a decade.
