"Of all the quilts here, it’s my favorite. I think it’s within the great tradition of symmetrical important forms. It reminds me of Tantric Art; it has great power. It has certain elegance, the hand-dyeing of the material of the patchwork is aiding and abetting it. I think it’s pretty fine. The relationship of the parts to the whole are additive. Good work."
– Jack Lenor Larsen, comments about "Boogie Bottom," at the open jurying for the NC Fiber Arts Association textile exhibition, Greensboro, NC. April 6, 1982
"Thunder and Lightning is fabric expressionism at its best. Just as a thunderstorm demands your attention, so does Susan’s dynamic portrayal of the explosion of light and sound, seen and heard in a thunderstorm. Jagged bolts of lightning in narrow fabric strips cut across the background. Flashes of color penetrate the darkness with a knifelike quality. Susan’s fabric engineering is so effective, one can almost hear rumbling and crackling."
–Great American Quilts 1990. Sandra L. O’Brien, Ed.
"The word "creation" falls just beneath many of the pincushions featured throughout, and from that Webb Lee crafted her near-perfect 49-inch square painted fabric, "In the Beginning." Or at least that’s what one surmises from the beautiful phasing of gold-to-green lettering centered along the bottom. Tomatoes, looking much like a strand of tangled Christmas lights, line the top. In the middle, birds, fish and snakes swoop, swim and slither against a predominantly dusty pink background. The biblical images are obvious, but even for the non-religious, the piece is a fanciful celebration of the wonderment of life."
–Brandon Brady, "City Beat," Cincinnati, OH, July 2000. Review of quilt exhibition at the Linda Schwartz Gallery
"Lee’s geometric pieced quilts present complex compositions full of small asymmetrical alignments that make the eye and the colors dance."
–Robert Shaw, The Art Quilt, 1997, comment about the quilt "Colors Dance."
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