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The market for quilts in Kenya is relatively small, and for art quilts it is even smaller.  The tropics have a reputation for being hard on textiles, so most art connoisseurs here prefer oils, watercolors and wooden or bronze statues.  Images of big game and Kenya landscapes and tribal arts abound.  In the local art scene, patchwork quilts (art or not) are largely unknown.

Nevertheless, I need some approximation of the world market value of my art quilt “Heart’s Aflutter.”  I intend to use it as a donation to a worthwhile organization and need to be able to give them a reasonable idea of its worth.  I asked for assistance in valuing my silk quilt “Jewel of Africa” and you were all very helpful; I am hoping you will be so again.

“Heart’s Aflutter,” the quilt itself, measures 24″ high by 28″ wide, and the frame is 30″ x 34″.  The work is a surrealist piece, one of my Spirit Works series, made as a cotton wholecloth quilt, hand painted with heat set acrylic fabric paints after being machine quilted with dark thread, with no prior design in mind.  The quilt is mounted on hook and loop tape, for easy removal and cleaning, inside a black painted wooden shadowbox frame.  Tiny copper colored sequins sewn on by hand embellish the center sections.

Heart's Aflutter

To learn more about “Heart’s Aflutter,” click the link or click on the photo above.  To see more pieces like this one and to learn why they are surrealistic art, see my gallery Spirit Works.  Then, please return here and let me know what you think this piece might be worth.  Leave your thoughts as Comments below.

Thank you VERY much!!