One of the pioneers of the art quilt movement, Pamela Studstill trained as a painter. Shortly after completing her studies, she turned to quilts as her genre of choice. As a child, Studstill had learned quilting from her grandmother, who exchanged quilt blocks with her granddaughter as a means of keeping in touch. Studstill’s quilts unite traditional techniques with contemporary color and design theories to produce artworks of intricate pieced construction and shimmering mosaic color. For Studstill each quilt is a “study in light” in which lighter colors gradually transition into darker tones through chromatic variation in patchwork and the addition of painted surface patterns. Although many of her quilts are both inspired by and evocative of landscapes, Studstill assigns each of them a number (rather than a title) to emphasize their abstract nature.