About Eugene Burchill
Eugene Burchill (Chemistry professor, University of Manitoba, retired) was born and raised on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. Educated at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Leeds (England) he taught for six years at the University of Victoria and at the University of Manitoba for thirty-one years.
His involvement with quilt design began with drafting templates and scaling patterns for his wife. This led him to designing patterns of his own. After retirement he decided to try his hand at construction of quilts from these designs. A major influence in his designs has been the geometric studies of tessellation by the Dutch artist and print-maker, M.C. Escher.