Fiber artist Mary Tyler is exhibiting her work at downtown Poulsbo’s Verksted Gallery during September.

Tyler has a unique approach to her work, creating fractal patterns using equations that turn math into art, a news release says. Then she quilts wall pieces and tote bags using fabric created with her original fractal images. The patterns are computer generated, digitally altered and custom printed.

“My fascination with color and pattern has always been at the center of my work as a fiber artist,” she said. “Fractals are found everywhere in nature, fern fronds, lightning strikes, the coastline of England. Fractals are geometric formulae that are used to define and measure repeating but irregular shapes.”

Once her finished images are ready, she sends them off to a digital printing company that turns them into printed cloth. The next steps involve topstitching and creating the final format for each piece. Even though each image starts off as a mathematical formula, it ends up as a personal statement about the world. “Color and pattern are still the center of my work,” Tyler said.

Visit verkstedgallery.com for details about artists in the gallery.