Love Quilt
Love Quilt was created for NGCI’s 2002 Love exhibition and was donated to the collection by the quilting group. It celebrates the Islands’ unique flora and fauna, maritime heritage, and cultural pastimes. Among the scenes depicted are images of the breadfruit tree, catboat sailing, traditional domestic architecture, and underwater marine life, forming a visual panorama of Caymanian culture.
About the Artist
Cayman Quilters
est. 1993
Cayman Quilters is a collective of local quilters dedicated to continuing the long tradition of craft in the Cayman Islands and raising funds for charitable organisations. The group was started in 1993 at the suggestion of Monica Gore, wife of former Cayman Islands Governor Michael Gore, and has met weekly in one another’s homes since that time. Past and present members include Debbie Calder, Maureen Collins, Carmen Connolly, Lucinda Cruikshank, Geraldine Duckworth, Doreen Gray, Marilyn Henrion, Glenys James, Sandra Joseph, Julia Kandiah, Pam de Lisser, Judy Massie, Meg Paterson, Suzanne Smith, Jilly Stone, Val Strang, Sybil Watler, and Jill Wood. Their work is in the collections of the Cayman Islands National Museum and NGCI, and was featured in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd., Fall 2016). A special commission, Creation, which won The McCoy Prize in 2004, hangs in the Baptist Church in Little Cayman.