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Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

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WELCOME! to my teaching and design website.
An element of serendipity is integral to the art of quilt making. This quality of surprise spurs me to explore new possibilities in the fusion of colour, shape, line and texture through fabric and stitching.

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Brenda Gael Smith

Learn with me!

My teaching focus is on freeform piecing, effective design and the use of colour – to promote fun and encourage creative momentum.

My live, interactive workshops are structured as 3-hour classes optimised for learning via the Zoom platform.

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Geometricks

Logs & Ladders: Building with Improvisation

Strip-Ease

The X Factor

Book me for a Presentation!

All of my presentations are available as live, interactive programs via Zoom for up to 100 participants. Contact me for my rates and availability.

Driven to Abstraction

The Art of Curating

Upcoming In-person Workshops

Other Workshops

In addition to the 3-hour workshops, I offer the following longer format, in-depth workshops for both in-person and virtual events. I can tailor content and timing for your needs.
Abstraction from Reality
Abstraction in Action
Bound to Please
Circular Explorations
Circular Explorations
Creating with Felt
Creating with Felt

Improvisation Plus!
Improvisation Plus
Lines of Beauty
Lines of Beauty
Metropolis: Logs & Ladders
Logs & Ladders
Modern X
Modern X

Serendipity Shibori
Serendipity Shibori
Stacks of Improvisation
Stacks of Improvisation
Neapolitan Strata Variou
Strata Various

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Brenda Gael Smith
brenda@serendipitypatchwork.com.au

PO Box 131, Avoca Beach
NSW 2251 Australia

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It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
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My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm 
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough. 
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