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Candice Crotet
France                         

Candice Crotet is a French artist and quilter based in Besançon. After exploring abstract painting, photography, music and dance, she turned to quilting in 2022, revisiting a practice she had first shared with her mother.

Working mostly by hand with reclaimed fabrics, from old clothes and gifts to flea market finds, Candice approaches quilting as a way to express emotions rather than pursue precision. Her quilts bring together warm, joyful colours, with pink recurring throughout her work as a personal motif. Through the act of piecing fabrics together, she explores the idea of holding different parts of oneself together. Rooted in a tradition of making do with what is available, her work finds comfort and resilience in the act of making

Read our interview with her.

Those That Close and Those That Open Those That Close and Those That Open
Those That Close and Those That Open
€242.00

Made in Besançon, France by Candice Crotet, Those That Close and Those That Open is a wall quilt pieced entirely from upcycled fabrics. Blocks of blue, beige, white and black build an architectural grid, with a few accents of pink, brown and gold. Its making was influenced by Japan, and the quilting is pared back to just five straight lines of green thread.

Baby Quilt Baby Quilt
Baby Quilt
€302.00

Made in Besançon, France by Candice Crotet, the Baby Quilt belongs to her Stripes and Beans series. Uneven stripes of pink, green, beige, white and black run across the quilt, scattered with red bean shapes appliquéd by hand. It is quilted in blue cotton thread over a cotton padding.

The Pepin Quilt The Pepin Quilt
The Pepin Quilt
€677.00

Made in Besançon, France by Candice Crotet, The Pepin Quilt is a hand-quilted wall piece in linen and cotton over a wool padding. On a ground of off-white and beige, two green bands and blocks of pink are scattered with small black shapes, each stitched in by hand. The artist made this quilt about Palestine.

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