[Coverlet - section] c. 1940

This section of a coverlet was made by Cornelius Christoffels, who lived between 1879 and 1960, and look at the handwork. It looks like a plaid made up of blue-blacks and creams with squares in the center and along the edges. I can imagine the artist really getting into the rhythm of making, building up the crisscrossed pattern, then shifting to those delicate square details. Do you think Christoffels was interested in painting? I am always interested in artists that are working in the expanded field. There's a real focus on texture here, the way the threads are woven together to create these surfaces of patterns. And it got me thinking about the physicality of my own paintings – the way I build up layers of color and gesture to create something that's both visual and tactile. So much is about feeling, the way I respond to a particular color or shape. It's like a conversation, you know? Artists are always responding to each other, across time and space, inspiring each other to see the world in new ways.