Echinacea Sweater Brooch Yellow Brick Road by Andrea Finch

Andrea Finch
Echinacea Sweater Brooch Yellow Brick Road
2025
Cotton & other textiles, wire, polyester stuffing, cotton batting, thread machine quilted, hand & machine constructed
3" x 13" x 13"

About Andrea Finch

Andrea Finch creates sculptural quilts of botanical subjects, realistic to abstract, exploring textile textures. Her botanical obsession began with 2 decades of photographing and creating an arboretum in her yard while working at a local garden center. She has come to quilt-making from a different angle, allowing the fabric to speak through texture, color, and design.

Andrea grew up on a hobby farm in Eastern Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Fine Arts from Kutztown University. She started quilting during her last class at university which changed the direction of her art. Her art career was interrupted for 18 years while she raised her children and lived a different creative life. When she returned to quilting, she tossed out many of the quilting rules. Her work, never truly conventional, has taken on sculptural forms.

Now living in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, she is involved in many arts organizations throughout the region. She is a Juried Artist member of SAQA (Studio Art Quilts Associates), sits on the board and exhibitions committee of the Virginia Quilt Museum in Dayton, Virginia, is the manager of the Foundry Art Market c-op.

Her work travels around the country and world in numerous national & regional juried shows, including four SAQA Global Exhibitions and can be found at various galleries, museums, public and private collections.