Sarah J. Pavlik is a contemporary quilt artist living in Lewes, Delaware.

     Like many art quilters, Sarah began working as a traditional quilter, drawn to fabric as a part of her identity growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota.  As she became aware of quilts as “art” over twenty years ago and began to study with Quilt Artist Nancy Crow, she became driven to create original compositions in fabric.  Sarah began dyeing her own fabric, sometimes over-dyed three times in order to achieve rich colors like a painter does when creating their palette.  Sarah is inspired by abstract composition, shapes, lines, color, movement; thereby creating visual interest. 

     Sarah may start with a sketch or a motif or configuration but mostly works improvisationally.  Pieces are not cut all the same size or necessarily planned.  Sarah cuts lines and shapes with a rotary cutter, which becomes an extension of her arm, and places them on her design wall not knowing ahead what the overall composition might be.  She works intuitively and for the most part, without rulers.  As part of the process she will stand back and react to the shapes and lines…continually moving them around until the desired composition is achieved.   She then take those shapes and lines to the sewing machine to stitch them together.  Heavy linear quilting typically finalizes the piece.  Sarah's goal is to create a composition that evokes movement, tension, and a viewer's desire to continue to look at the work.