Sheryl Gillilan

Sheryl Gillilan is an award-winning quilt artist who sees inspiration for quilt ideas everywhere – tile floors, rugs, graphic and modern art, landscapes, and architecture.

She uses cotton and silk fabrics, both commercial and hand-dyed, to provide a variety of colors, textures, and patterns in her quilts.

Sheryl has long been enamored with the symmetry of circles (and their derivatives) as a universal symbol of natural balance, wholeness, and the passage of time. She is fascinated that they are foundational in art and structures throughout history, and continue to appear in contemporary life as pizzas, camera lenses, Ferris wheels, traffic lights and roundabouts, and profile pictures.

Sheryl grew up in Salt Lake City and then lived overseas and in other states before returning to the mountains and family in 1985. She lives with her daughter, cat and dog in an art-filled home. She was an arts administrator for 20 years before retiring in 2023.

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The colors! Wow, they're so diverse and cover the color wheel from muted to brilliant. This state is a feast for the eyes!