I got a lot of books for Christmas, and I’m slowly making my way through them all. I’ve always loved Noriko Endo’s landscapes, since I saw the first small (and probably very cheap) one about 7 years ago. Her large pieces of forests and individual trees would take over a room quite happily. The book Confetti Naturescapes does explain how to make her quilts (which is not why I bought it) in a very general way. Certainly I could have taken her class at IQF in Long Beach last year and made my own little Endoscape; her method is not incredibly difficult…what is amazing is what she personally does with her method. Even watching her demonstrate it here on Alex Anderson’s TV show does not really explain how she gets from those toothpick-sized pieces of many colors to the large landscapes that have dominated the art quilt scene for the last few years.
She seems a very peaceful, content woman, and it shows in her art…and her book is a reflection of that.
Kathy Nida 