"Picatso: The Art Thief" by Nikki Hill won Second Place - Small Wall Quilts: Quilter’s Choice at Paducah 2023.

Picatso: The Art Thief by Nikki Hill has won numerous awards over the last year and a half. Besides winning Second Place in the Small Wall Quilts: Quilter’s Choice (sponsored by Janome America; Longarm) category at AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2023 most recently, it also took home Second Place - Wall Quilts – Stationary Machine Quilted at Daytona Beach 2023, and Second Place in the Art Quilt category of the 2022 Jacksonville Quiltfest. Nikki's work was featured as part of an article in the June/July 2022 issue of Arbus, an arts magazine in Jacksonville.

In a case of art imitating art, Nikki's quilt is based on Le Pigeon Aux Petits Pois by Picasso and other pieces lost from the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2010. You'll stand back and admire this quilt as just as you would a painting from that same museum because, to the naked eye, it is indistinguishable from one until you see the details up close.

Design Source: Le Pigeon Aux Petits Pois by Picasso and other pieces lost from the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2010

First Main Quilt Photo by AQS ; Second Main Quilt Photo, Detail Photo, Ribbon and Sign Photo by Ricky Tims from AQS QuiltWeek Paducah 2023