The latest installment in my Natural Dye Chronicles series is a short & sweet little ditty, a soliloquy on the fleeting nature of color. Hope you enjoy!
#naturaldye #naturalinks #art
So much variety! #fiberarts are the best arts 🤗
I’m very excited for this Friday’s opening at Alto Gallery, featuring work from myself and the other four artists in last year’s Land Line Artist Residency with Denver Botanic Gardens. If you live near Denver, stop by—it’s going to be a great show!
It’s energizing to witness how #fiberart continually brings people together in service of the bigger picture. What is it about fiber art that leads to this collaborative spirit? History? Women? I’m fairly new to this “genre” of art and let me tell you I can’t get enough of y’all’s good vibes 💛🧶
Love this creativity! Quilting but 3D 🙌🏼
Catherine Owens
Red onion, red onion with iron, avocado, and osage orange inks in process & in action. Love these hues together 😍🌿💁🏻♀️
#naturaldyes #naturalinks #naturalcolor #livingcolor
Finally posting proper photos of this piece! “We’re all Made of Madder,” #punchneedle tapestry using wool yarn dyed with madder, marigold, indigo, cutch, and pomegranate dyes. (51.25” x 31”)
#fiberart #naturaldyes #fiberartist #womensart #artyear
I took a break from simmering yarns this week to prepare some natural inks for an upcoming workshop. Distilling color from food scraps never gets old 🙃
#naturalink #naturaldye #inkmaking #livingcolor
Whelp I’ve managed to go further down the rabbit hole of woad in ancient Britain. 🙃 At the risk of putting a target on my back, I’ve plunged deep into the debate over the Picts and their alleged woad body art.
#naturaldye #naturaldyes #historyofcraft #scottishhistory #woad #picts #britishhistory
Fantastic turnout for my local #teslatakedown protest today! Thanks to the stranger who handed me an American flag on my way in: true patriotism is standing up against what’s happening to our country right now. Fascism has no place here.
Catherine Owens
I’ve been fixated on color lately: my eyes comb every tree for bulging bits of neon green, fallen cottonwood catkins have stained our…
Emily Van Hoff transforms traditional quilting into sculptural art, creating dynamic textile pieces that combine geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and inn
The Coat of Hopes, a patchwork coat on an ongoing walking pilgrimage through the UK, raising ecological issues, made by, worn and walked by 100s of people on a journey on foot over more than a 1000 miles so far.... #FridayFeeling
