Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Debbie Jones has been a fiber art rebel since early childhood in Texas where she learned to make crafts and sew clothing. Her fascination with color and love of fabric led to a part-time career in sewing and fashion design while also working in Purchasing for many years and then as a Risk Management Analyst. Working creatively gave her balance in life, but it was her dream to make fiber art and clothing full time.
In 1990, after winning a quilt with a $1 charity raffle ticket, Debbie became intrigued with quilts and decided to try making them herself. After taking many classes and studying techniques, she began to create one-of-a-kind quilted wall-hangings that expressed her artistic flair, working both by hand and machine, breaking the rules to get unusual effects with specialty fabrics.
Then an auto accident sidelined Debbie’s health and her quilting for twelve years. While recovering but still addicted to playing with fabric, she developed a unique method for making no-sew fabric collage landscapes and seascapes, mounted flat and then framed as “fabric paintings”. It was during this time that she moved to New Mexico, having fallen in love at first sight with its big skies, sweeping landscapes and diverse cultural influences. She was home at last.
Now that her health has improved and with her corporate career in the past, Debbie’s dream has come true, working full time making and teaching fiber art with renewed energy and enthusiasm, often including her hand painted and ice dyed fabrics. Always searching for new ideas and techniques, she has begun working with loose un-spun fibers, bonded together to make textured “fiber fusion” fabric that is featured in some of her art quilts and three-dimensional vessels.
Debbie revels in the meditative feeling she experiences during the creative process, and it is her joy to make and share these objects of beauty with others. Her fiber art is in private and corporate collections around the world and has also been exhibited in galleries, exhibitions and fine art shows where she has won many awards including Best of Show. Always looking for a creative challenge, Debbie welcomes custom orders from her studio in Albuquerque and would be pleased to meet with you in person or online.
She gives lectures and teaches her fiber art techniques locally and nationally, and has held volunteer classes for young children, for at-risk teenagers in after-school programs and for elderly residents at senior living facilities.
