“Forest Flowers 3” Here is my entry in the VISDA Current Threads 2015: Garden Tapestry exhibition. Triptychs were accepted as long as each panel fit the specified size. The first step in the making process was to dye a well worn bed sheet with a number of different coloured earth dyes. Small torn squares of cloth […]
Read More...I am working on a new work for a Surface Design Association exhibition. It involves a number of different steps and techniques. Random dyeing the ground cloth. All of the fabric is worn bed sheets. Dyeing for an all-over mottled colour. Another sheet dyed to get a more randomly patterned effect. Sampling different fabric paints to […]
Read More...The conditions were right: no wind, sunny, fresh leaves falling fast. It was the right time to sun-print. I lay an old door on the grass and covered it with plastic. I had a collection of leaves I had picked up on my morning walk. Three Setacolor transparent greens were mixed and thinned with water. […]
Read More...The last bit of machine sewing resulted in a satisfying number of empty spools. I do enjoy using my stash of resources. I sent a swatch sample to the SDA Swatch Collection. It is a piece of bed-sheet that was wrapped around a maple tree for over a year. I stitched it with the colours […]
Read More...More great work in the Quiet Zone exhibition. Dominique Arlot, Black and White 1 Gesso and acrylic paint on old sheets. With hand and machine stitching. Catherine Dormor talks about her work resulting from her PHD studies. Catherine talks about her work to Articulation. Ingrid Lincoln, Joe Lewis, Catherine Dormor Dawne Rudman, Festival Chair and […]
Read More...With this 2nd installation of my graduation work ‘Home’ I was unable to suspend the frame from the ceiling. I had to modify the work to fit the challenging space in the Oakville Town Hall. I used 2 of the 4 sheets to make a bed. And added a plain pillow with a treat. This installation […]
Read More...I have stitched the last band on each of the 4 tree cloths. Each cloth documents the growth of the tree over one year. The cloth is a chromatic record of biological processes. The colours and their sequence are different on each cloth.
Read More...I continue my tree colour studies each new moon day of the month.Here is a leaf on the maple tree in July. The chlorophyll has started to withdraw. Here is the same leaf a month later showing very little change. We must have had a cold night back in July. The arbutus is back […]
Read More...Maple Cloth Cedar Cloth Arbutus Cloth Douglas-fir ClothAn idea i explored with this work is seeing as a gendered issue and a cultural issue.I placed small elements from each tree under its cloth to lure the male inside the structure, knowing he focuses on details from long distance. The female eye is rewarded with the […]
Read More...The 4 bed sheets are hung from a wooden frame suspended from a trapeze. On the nearby wall is the book of posts from my blog documenting the process I went through to produce this work. My artist statement and business cards are beside it. I laid out all of my research on the floor below this wall. Tomorrow […]
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