A new kind of quilt

Brown decorates barns, buildings with her painted designs

  • Artist Beatrice Brown moved to Lexington in 2017 and started ButterScotch Designs. She paints barn quilts and makes traditional patchwork quilts for beds. (Jack Casey/The Oglethorpe Echo)
    Artist Beatrice Brown moved to Lexington in 2017 and started ButterScotch Designs. She paints barn quilts and makes traditional patchwork quilts for beds. (Jack Casey/The Oglethorpe Echo)
  • Beatrice Brown generally chooses designs for her clients when she paints barn quilts, but sometimes accepts commissions. (Submitted Photo)
    Beatrice Brown generally chooses designs for her clients when she paints barn quilts, but sometimes accepts commissions. (Submitted Photo)
  • Beatrice Brown shows off a pattern of a quilt she's started. Her hands also paint barn quilts, used to decorate the sides of buildings. (Jack Casey/The Oglethorpe Echo)
    Beatrice Brown shows off a pattern of a quilt she's started. Her hands also paint barn quilts, used to decorate the sides of buildings. (Jack Casey/The Oglethorpe Echo)

    Beatrice Brown discovered her love of textiles as a young girl spending summers learning how to sew with her grandmother in Maryland.

     

    “I saw her talent of dressmaking fit into my goal of bei…