Bette Ferguson’s Statement and Biography

Bette brings contemporary global view to her tapestry weaving. From extensive travels abroad, she translates her views into drawings and then interprets the design through the richness and luminous subtleties of yarn into tapestry

Weaving since the mid-seventies, her early work was a melange of diverse techniques including double-weave pick-up, pattern weaving on a 16-harness dobby loom and tapestry.

These works were dominated by richly hued skies, where the observer never loses the sense of nature’s imagery as her inspirational source.

Weaving exclusively in the Gobelin technique, her most recent work has been to explore the repeated patterns of familiar object such as garden pots, building facades, and freeway overpasses. Bette’s use of color with imagination and verve has brought her many private commissions. Her current work is focusing on the beauty of the desert sky, capturing the brilliance of the sunsets, energy of lightning storms and billowing clouds.