Underfoot The Earth Divine

Underfoot The Earth Divine 

rescued damask, tannin and iron natural dyes, velvet, paint, machine pieced, reverse applique,         hand quilted with a variety of threads (cotton, silk, wool)     89" x 89" or 226 cm square

About appreciating the expansiveness of the natural world,

And the simplicity of it.

Overhead the Sun (verso)  

About the divine within nature and within us

And the intimacy of touch.

This then is life,  Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.           How curious!  How real!  Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.            Walt Whitman

Underfoot the Earth Divine was part of the two person exhibition In the Middle of the World curated by Miranda Bouchard.

The debut was with this exhibition in Almonte Ontario, at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, 2021.

It then went over to Birmingham England and received an award of distinction for Fine Art Textiles in the Festival of Quilts in 2022.

In 2023, the exhibition In the Middle of the World travelled to Kenora, Ontario in the spring and showed at the Muse gallery (Lake of the Woods museum, Douglas Family Art Centre)

Underfoot the Earth Divine was juried into Quilts = Art =  Quilts at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn New York USA and won the Schweinfurth award in 2023.

In 2024, this quilt travelled to Nova Scotia to take part in the two person exhibition with Penny Berens, In the Middle of the World, that was installed beautifully at Artsplace, Annapolis Royal in September.

Underfoot the Earth Divine / Overhead the Sun is available for purchase.

my pandemic summer / My Awakened Heart

This 45 minute lecture was pre-recorded for a presentation to the York Heritage Quilt Guild in Toronto Ontario on October 20, 2020.  Judy and her husband live and work on Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron, Ontario Canada.  Manitoulin has a long history of First Nations settlement.

Manitoulin means Spirit Island in the Ojibwe language.  The island is considered sacred by the native Anishinaabe people who identify as the People of the Three Fires, The Ojibwe, The Odawa and the Potawatomi tribes.  Judy Martin acknowledges this traditional territory and hopes that her work and this talk show her deep respect and graitude.   

To view and listen to Judy Martin's 'My Pandemic Summer' click on this link.  

the softness inside her

The Softness Inside Her

wool, silk-velvet, plant-dyes, cotton and silk thread, slashing with reverse applique, hand embroidery 51.2" h x 39.4" w x 1" d  or 130 x 100 x 2.5 cm

Made during the pandemic summer of 2020.  
 

Like a Star in My Sky

Like A Star In My Sky 2020
wool, hand stitch
33" square  or 84 cm square

A Star in My Sky detail

A Star in My Sky (reverse side)
Wool and hand stitch  33" square or 84 cm square

April 2020:  Featured in the Toronto Star in article about Visible Mending
May 2020:  Sold through Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island and is now in private collection.

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me   found wool blanket, saddened with iron, cut and stitched with yarn,   67" x 62"  2020

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me (verso side)  vintage blanket saddened with iron, cut, appliqued and stitched by hand, 67" x 62"  2020

 Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me   2020

wool threads, dyed velvet
cut, appliqued, stitched by hand
a two sided piece

here viewed as a sculpture

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me
detail of side a