Dutch Baroque meets Modern Photography

Here is a lovely art quilt inspired by Dutch Baroque still-life paintings. The artist is Anna Chupa, a Professor of Art and Design at Lehigh University (Pennsylvania).  Her one‐of‐a‐kind art quilts are created from her own photography. This piece appears to be appliqued, but is actually a whole cloth quilt! Read on for details.

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Garden Pinks, made and quilted by Anna Chupa (Easton, Pennsylvania) 

 

 

Garden Pinks was created from multiple original photographs in Adobe Photoshop. The imagery was montaged from flowers and foliage gathered during photographic trips to botanical gardens and nurseries, then printed on fabric with professional fabric printing. The central medallion was color tinted for unity.  Anna Chupa did the free motion quilting with a longarm machine.  

The result is stunning! The flowers, although realistic, have a kind of hazy glow. For more information on Anna Chupa's work, please see her website at Anna Chupa Designs!

Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Houston International Quilt Festival.