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TKKKKK Quilted wall hanging 38″ x 48″. Made of hand-dyed cottons and linens; machine quilted by the artist. I recently became interested in the Yosemite watercolors of Japanese-American artist, Chiura Obata. He did a series of these in the 1920’s and 30’s, then had them made into woodblock prints that somehow visually mimic the action of the original wet pigment on paper. Using his images to guide my palette and my forms, I ended up with much larger blocks of uncut fabric than I usually use. While none of Obata’s ochre and tan remain in this particular piece, I feel that the influence of his El Capitan somewhere under the wall of water and vegetation I’ve created. 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Inspired by the paintings of David Goodsell, a molecular biologist who creates visual representations of cell structure, many based on cryogenic electron microscopy. This image is my wholly imaginary picture of a cell about to divide. Price: SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659378417619-KDYQL0TP6U746O25K23H/Knife+in+the+Water.png Wall Hangings - Knife in the Water Quilted wall hanging, 37”H x 40”W; made of hand-dyed cottons; machine quilting by Libie Peterson. Inspired by a design by Beth Carney, I made this piece using one of my own hand-dyes that accidentally turned out to mimic the look of sun refracted water. Price: $500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659373372134-PRC2QDSVM5HG71QIAG31/CellSeries%25232_Composed.jpg Wall Hangings - Cell Series #2 Quilted wall hanging, 75”H x 41”W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilting by Libie Peterson. Inspired by the paintings of David Goodsell, a molecular biologist who creates visual representations of cell structure, many based on cryogenic electron microscopy. I came up with the idea for this particular quilt as I pondered the difficulties faced by a cell when trying to negotiate the interface between what’s inside and what’s outside—a difficulty our cells face daily. Price: SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659393143849-I9V2ULW6IEHWQWBQJRKK/Transcription.png Wall Hangings - Transcription Quilted wall hanging, 33.5”H x 32.5”W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilting by me. I started out to make ladders and ended up with unwinding DNA strands. Price: $500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659375187071-SJ74M7A6ZX6ZJSJVQKV9/BalancingAct_Composed.jpg Wall Hangings - Balancing Act Quilted wall hanging, 22”H x 25”W, made of commercial cottons; machine quilting by me. One of my many experiments that tries to unsettle the traditional quilt grid made of rectangular blocks. Price: SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659401618932-6976WJ2OA7V1CFTQU6EY/The+Patience+of+Spiders.png Wall Hangings - The Patience of Spiders Quilted wall hanging, 46” H x 34” W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; quilted by me both by hand and by machine. This piece was inspired by the luscious black fabric in the background, created by my friend Mary Tyler. Price: $700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659402298663-VGI39QJ8OPRO460BD5QN/Fractured+City+Sunset.png Wall Hangings - Fractured City Sunset Quilted wall hanging, 50” H x 35” W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilted by Libie Peterson. Another one of my quilts whose inspiration was the amazing hand-dyed fabric of my friend, Mary Tyler. Price: $600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659391022855-VNEF9FQ07SJWVUP512JW/American+History+Quilt+Untended+Wounds.png Wall Hangings - American History Quilt Quilted wall hanging, 27”H x 28”W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilting and hand embroidery by me. A quilt that reminds us of the oozing, untended wounds of the Civil War. Price: $300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659392828013-K47YTYVRU8VQROJAU0LT/Dancing+Threads.png Wall Hangings - Dancing Threads Quilted wall hanging, 36”H x 33”W, made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilting by me, beading by Pat Herkal. Exuberant hand-printed background fabric from Senegal, beaded figures inspired by Serer music and dancing. Price: SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659388948650-T9ZDLRUUHYHRHEAGJQP6/Ode+to+Jane.png Wall Hangings - Ode to Jane Quilted wall hanging, 23” x 31”. Made of cotton and linen; machine pieced and quilted by me. Jane Davies is a Vermont painter who teaches a class called Big Fat Art. She says, “Big Fat Art is a state of mind rather than a specific kind of art” and in her BFA workshops she helps artists learn to focus on process as a way of getting unstuck. Hats off to Jane! Price: $300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659389373706-YY22IINSP5HX831I7FFV/Forest+Windows.png Wall Hangings - Forest Windows Quilted wall hanging, 39”H x 21”W, made of commercial cottons and hand-dyed silk; machine quilting by me. I collected the leaves and other botanical materials in this quilt mainly from my own backyard, then printed them onto white silk using eco-dye techniques that employ natural mordants. Price: SOLD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497813186462-7JNI8C0PK1GTMAJQPCS6/Imaginary.jpg Wall Hangings - Imaginary Rainforest Quilted wall hanging 38″ x 48″. Made of hand-dyed cottons and linens; machine quilted by me. I recently became interested in the Yosemite watercolors of Japanese-American artist, Chiura Obata. He did a series of these in the 1920’s and 30’s, then had them made into woodblock prints that somehow visually mimic the action of the original wet pigment on paper. Using his images to guide my palette and my forms, I ended up with much larger blocks of uncut fabric than I usually use. Price: $700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1498418185411-E719LI9UEZGEPFNSO0S0/Desert+Winds+copy.jpg Wall Hangings - Desert Winds Quilted wall hanging 41” x 48”. Made of hand-dyed linens and various cottons. machine quilted by me and Libie Peterson. Inspired by an old piece of hand-dyed linen from Mauritania, this piece makes me think of the changing climate of West Africa. Price: $700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659390559041-GUMEP0TAQPFXY4LQIXRT/Unknown+Alphabet.png Wall Hangings - Unknown Alphabet Quilted wall hanging,34” x 45”. Made of hand dyed and commercial cottons; machine pieced and quilted by me. I was experimenting with an improvisational piecing method I thought would suggest leaves and branches. Instead I accidentally made an alphabet. Price: $400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497814592647-XDOUKYRIOMIE8MUURZL8/Dancing%2BLimbs+copy.jpg Wall Hangings - Dancing Limbs Quilted wall hanging 40" x 55". Made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons. Machine quilted by Libie Peterson under my direction. This design was inspired by an image of trees that somehow morphed into dancers. Price: $600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659401905627-15W1DMBQ13YT3EH20S62/Botanical+Print+_3.png Wall Hangings - Botanical Print #3 Quilted wall hanging, 35”H x 29”W; made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons, plus my own botanical prints. In this quilt, I used the eco-dye imagery provided by leaves, stems, and petals gathered from my yard and the yards of friends. Price: $300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659402096995-KF9LXT66Z74TM3WPG4QD/Slumbering+in+the+Fossil+Record.png Wall Hangings - Slumbering in the Fossil Record Quilted wall hanging 41”H x 40”W; made of commercial and hand-dyed fabrics, many of which are botanical prints made from plants harvested here in my own neighborhood; machine quilted by Libie Peterson. The shapes in this quilt made me think about the stratigraphic layers below our feet. Price: $300 http://www.brquilts.net/columns-1-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1418603726349-B3675Y5OK1I2YM9O9564/_DSC8880.JPG Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1418604564217-FGXB5TUGQZ9TZ23Y81UG/_DSC4916.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1418604418578-SGF68L7WT25BAXTXEW9P/_DSC2897.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1418604068936-XHLBQLKXWT7LTBDY61WL/eliz_ocean.jpg Commissions http://www.brquilts.net/archive daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1659373014947-B17H0SRVYUEWUS5OTOOH/Marine%2BScape.jpg Archive - Marine Scape Quilted wall hanging, 71”H x 40”W; made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons; machine quilted by Libie Peterson. This quilt was inspired by a landscape photo taken by Brian Goodman that I transformed into something rather watery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919945825-RF3HYQCO7CJ26RTHKH8R/Beneath+the+Waves+copy.jpg Archive - Beneath the Waves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610920146454-6K9PFDW80DCEKMJKEPPT/Trying+to+Connect+copy.jpg Archive - Trying to Connect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808600428-FVL33DCVEVG35TWHTKJK/Floating+Trapezoids.jpg Archive - FLOATING TRAPEZOIDS Quilted wall hanging 27” x 27”. Made of hand dyed and commercial cottons; machine quilted by the artist. Using bits of fabrics from an earlier quilt, I placed these small blocks against a vivid periwinkle blue background and quilted it heavily using a technique called “echo” quilting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808600227-ERBK3Z1F7F0FBZGZBN19/Cruising+the+Web.jpg Archive - CRUISING THE WEB Quilted wall hanging 36″ x 38″. Made of hand-dyed and commercial cottons and linens; machine quilted at New Pieces. This quilt was one of several that I designed using modular rectangles intersected with curvilinear shapes. Several of the background rectangles are made of hand-dyed fabrics that look to me like old walls with peeling paint or weathered advertisements. The overlying linear elements can then look like graffiti, or streaks of paint, or web-like tangles of rope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610920024321-5476MUQMVNLBHR03Y465/Converging+Currents.jpg Archive - Converging Currents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610920105303-GYEZIF1DLTZ21U25AZ9N/Fire+%26+Ash+copy.jpg Archive - Fire & Ash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919982931-19KQPENZG7Z9426TC4QI/Arable%2BLand%2Bof%2BMy%2BMind+copy.jpg Archive - Arable Land of My Mind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808603228-TT2RMK1J6SZTKNN9T42R/Sketch%232.jpg Archive - SKETCH #2 Quilted wall hanging 14” x 20”. Made of hand dyed linen and cotton; machine and hand quilting by the artist. Inspired by the quilters Gwen Marston and Jean Wells, this is one of a series of smaller works that uses minimally curved piecing and solid and/or near-solid colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1538587002598-KT48VKATKCAPTDQEOMNR/Nurse+Logs.jpg Archive - Nurses Log Quilted wall hanging, 44” x 41”. Made of hand dyed and commercial cottons; machine pieced and quilted by me; embellished with buttons, beads, and thread. Inspired by a natural history course taught by volunteers at the amazing Jefferson Land Trust, this quilt grew out of a field trip to the Olympic rain forest. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808602277-VFHZO46KT93U01ADB46X/NGor+Beach.jpg Archive - N’GOR BEACH Quilted wall hanging 39” x 41”. Made of cotton fabrics hand dyed in West Africa as well as commerical cotton fabrics from the USA; machine quilted at New Pieces. The colors and feeling of “liquidity” in these hand dyed fabrics remind me of a beautiful day on N’Gor beach in Senegal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808602284-3FGHJ65CKG3K9VWS5ZCM/Prehistory+of+Quilting%231.jpg Archive - PREHISTORY OF QUILTING #1 Quilted wall hanging 24” x 41”. Made of cotton fabrics, some hand dyed by the artist, others from Senegal, Mali, and Ghana. and Guinea, as well as commercial cottons from the USA; machine quilted by Kathy Ritter at New Pieces. This was the first in a series of quilts that were inspired by thoughts of the pigments used by the first human artists. Did they use charcoal from their fires? Iron oxide from an uplifted ore deposit? Ochre-colored mud from an eroded stream bank? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808603111-QKIXSLQ2XOSYVPYD2AX7/Shadowing+Goke.jpg Archive - SHADOWING GOKE Quilted wall hanging 39″ x 49″. Made of commercial cottons and a few hand dyed cottons; machine quilted by Kathy Ritter at New Pieces. While contemplating some fabrics from Kyoto recently given to me by friends, I stumbled on a photo of a quilt by Goke Keiko, a Japanese quilt artist who used similar fabric. Goke’s design and my new material mingled in my mind and resulted in this quilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808601203-JYJUHXMQOWJYHE722HD9/Indigo+Spring.jpg Archive - INDIGO SPRING Quilted wall hanging, 19″ x 39″. Made of Japanese yukata cloth, commercial cottons, hand dyed cottons, and indigos from China; machine quilted by the artist. The idea for this piece came from a trip to the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum in Washington state where I saw an exhibit of Japanese quilts curated by Miwako Kimura. The quilting in the piece was initially meant to set off the beautiful flower shapes in the yukata; it was only after I was finished that I realized it resembles the rake marks left in a Japanese rock garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497808604257-6QBDZP20HUNIQJDJMH0W/Square+Fireworks.jpg Archive - SQUARE FIREWORKS Quilted wall hanging 42″ x 45″. Made of hand-dyed and commercial cottons; machine quilted at New Pieces by Kathy Ritter. I was challenged by the technical difficulty of retaining the background tie-dye’s subtle radiating pattern. I had to construct the quilt carefully to ensure that I could maintain the radial color streaks despite sometimes having to cut and seam the fabric into relatively small pieces. This radiation is strongly reinforced by Kathy Ritter’s excellent long-arm quilting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610920981799-Z3DEY27JSWMYW1INPLRB/Floating+Pods.jpg Archive - Floating Pods Quilted wall hanging 35"H x 22”W; made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons, machine quilted by me. Several artist friends and I decided to use the pod shape as an inspiration - this was my result. Price: Sold http://www.brquilts.net/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610939585306-34ES1R0QLZ65VJOFFJCF/BRamseyOde+to+Kris1.jpg Contact Ode to Kris http://www.brquilts.net/wall-hangings daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1538587069928-6XBR96WHX957X1692IPI/Unknown+Alphabet.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Unknown Alphabet (Copy) Quilted wall hanging,34” x 45”. Made of hand dyed and commercial cottons; machine pieced and quilted by me. I was experimenting with an improvisational piecing method I thought would suggest leaves and branches. Instead I accidentally made an alphabet. Price: $400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1538587002598-KT48VKATKCAPTDQEOMNR/Nurse+Logs.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Nurse Logs (Copy) Quilted wall hanging, 44” x 41”. Made of hand dyed and commercial cottons; machine pieced and quilted by me; embellished with buttons, beads, and thread. Inspired by a natural history course taught by volunteers at the amazing Jefferson Land Trust, this quilt grew out of a field trip to the Olympic rain forest. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1538587105157-QAKJN8DOATM0DVTBRDK2/Ode+to+Jane.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Ode to Jane (Copy) Quilted wall hanging, 23” x 31”. Made of cotton and linen; machine pieced and quilted by me. Jane Davies is a Vermont painter who teaches a class called Big Fat Art. She says, “Big Fat Art is a state of mind rather than a specific kind of art” and in her BFA workshops she helps artists learn to focus on process as a way of getting unstuck. Hats off to Jane! Price: $300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1498418185411-E719LI9UEZGEPFNSO0S0/Desert+Winds+copy.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Desert Winds (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 41” x 48”. Made of hand-dyed linens and various cottons. machine quilted by me and Libie Peterson. Inspired by an old piece of hand-dyed linen from Mauritania, this piece makes me think of the changing climate of West Africa. Price: $700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497814592647-XDOUKYRIOMIE8MUURZL8/Dancing%2BLimbs+copy.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Dancing Limbs (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 40" x 55". Made of commercial and hand-dyed cottons. Machine quilted by Libie Peterson under my direction. This design was inspired by an image of trees that somehow morphed into dancers. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497813545521-M2PHKV21TIAJ47IU6E9E/Beneath+the+Waves+copy.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Beneath the Waves (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 38″ x 52″. Made of hand-dyed cottons and linens; machine quilted by Angie Woolman. This quilt was inspired by a batch of hand-dyes in my fabric collection, clamoring for attention. I had fabrics from an indigo-dyeing workshop given by John Marshall, a lot of cottons and linens I’d manipulated with fiber reactive dyes, and a few other oddments. These, combined with a snorkeling vacation in Hawaii, resulted in Beneath the Waves. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497810234943-92TM69WF28P4E1R7YH8E/Arable%2BLand%2Bof%2BMy%2BMind.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Arable Land of My Mind (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 38” x 39”. Made of hand-dyed upholstery fabric and various cottons. Machine quilted by Libie Peterson under my direction. An imaginary farmscape as seen from a plane. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497814835231-EE26LAEJMU4MK239UKK5/Converging%2BCurrents+copy.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Converging Currents (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 36” x 42”. Made of hand-dyed and commercial cottons, Turkish wool, and hand-dyed linen. Machine quilted by Libie Peterson under my direction. This quilt began with the luscious blue and green and brown hand-dyed fabric of my friend, Mary Tyler. After looking at it for several days, the design simply emerged, as if from the air and water around me. Price: Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497813186462-7JNI8C0PK1GTMAJQPCS6/Imaginary.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Imaginary Rainforest (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 38″ x 48″. Made of hand-dyed cottons and linens; machine quilted by me. I recently became interested in the Yosemite watercolors of Japanese-American artist, Chiura Obata. He did a series of these in the 1920’s and 30’s, then had them made into woodblock prints that somehow visually mimic the action of the original wet pigment on paper. Using his images to guide my palette and my forms, I ended up with much larger blocks of uncut fabric than I usually use. Price: $700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497815027153-5C4YXPSV3Z86MW4Q4BZ3/Trying+to+Connect+copy.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Trying to Connect (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 28″ x 45″. Made of hand-dyed and commercial cottons; machine quilted at New Pieces. This quilt was designed in modular rectangles, some of which contain curvilinear shapes that seem, in certain places, to connect the rectangles together. Some of these shapes intersect neatly, some appear disconnected. The finished piece reminds me of how we are sometimes not as we appear, in our attempt to connect. Sold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497810249000-GGB034BBD4LIL8CB9Q9A/Fire%2B%26%2BAsh.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Fire and Ash (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 46” x 69”. Made of various hand-dyed and commercial cottons. Machine quilted by Libie Peterson under my direction. Here I decided to go against some of my usual bright colors and use a more neutral, subdued palette. Then the red burst out. Not for sale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1497810249940-ISIJ1V4WI6WP1TUAO51B/Louvered+Windows.jpg Wall Hangings (Copy) - Louvered Windows (Copy) Quilted wall hanging 21” x 28”. Made of hand dyed linen and cotton; machine quilting by me. Inspired by the quilters Gwen Marston and Jean Wells, this is one of a series of smaller works that uses minimally curved piecing and solid and/or near-solid colors. Price: $400 http://www.brquilts.net/cards-books daily 0.75 2021-01-17 http://www.brquilts.net/cards-books/undersea-garden-a-voyage-of-wonder-and-imagination monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610918604813-4G2EVHHKMO07PM3EPDHS/Undersea_CoverFront.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919372378-1GXK37F817DZCMGHCABR/Undersea1.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919372397-G08HAK4OOUDDZFCDSKBQ/Undersea2.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919373977-H1L1WVTLDPWW42DZZ2SN/Undersea3.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919374185-RT0UFTOZGE5HQVR02TR0/Undersea4.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919559416-4Q2T6W394P47ZQUC9XCG/Undersea5.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919559536-0B3EKJODFJ0MPP1B6X94/Undersea6.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5488e0f0e4b0c4911842ae98/1610919560473-25M4664VQH8P4HREEH3R/Undersea7.jpg Cards & Books - Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination