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.

self hug

self hug   2015  silk thread hand embroidery

self hug   2015   vintage monogrammed linen pillow case, silk thread, hand embroidery

self hug 2015 and gathering myself 2009, feel better installation

exhibition record:

2023:  included in Judy's solo exhibition Stardust, up for the entire summer at the Gore Bay Museum
2015:  P0P FOLK Textiles at la galerie du nouvel ontario, Sudbury, Ontario, Sophie LeBlanc curator
(They were part of Judy Martin's larger feel better installation which included 75 bundles and an interactive area where participants could wrap their own bundles)

2010:  Convergence at Tom Thomson gallery, Owen Sound Ontario  (juried exhibition) 

2010:  Be Safe My Love (solo exhibit)  Greenwood Quilt Gallery, Guelph, Ontario 

three moons

Three Moons  15" wide, 40" long, 2015,  silk charmeuse, indigo dye,  hand stitch resist and hand stitch with silk thread.(detail above)

Three Moons, 40" x 15", 2015   silk, indigo, stitch resist

Three Moons detail, 2015

Time, Dream, Memory series

Time, Dream, Memory: Time  Vintage materials , van dyke print, hand stitch, frame within a frame under glass  20 inches square  2014  Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory: Dream    vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame within a metal frame under glass  20 inches square  2014    Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory Memory     Vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame under glass within a metal frame, 2014  Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory: Mother   vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame under glass within a metal frame (not shown)  2014  Judith e Martin

Exhibition history:

2014:  Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island
2014:   time, dream, memory: memory and time, dream, memory: mother showed at the Manitoulin Fine Arts Association Members exhibition in September 2014 at the Centennial Museum of Sheguiandah, Manitoulin Island
2014  the David Kaye Gallery ,Toronto, Ontario  time, dream, memory: time and time, dream memory : dream
September 2015: Craft Ontario's Craft on Tap fundraiser,  time, dream memory: mother was part of the silent auction in the distillery district of Toronto.
2016:  David Kaye Gallery, Gallery Artists exhibition included the Time and Dream pieces,
2018:  le Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury fundraiser exhibition: time, dream, memory: time
2019:  Guildworks, Bloomfield Ontario, time, dream, memory: dream 

Lake

Lake  Indigo and hand stitch on silk, 2014  Judith e Martin

168 cm h x 133 cm w   (66" h x 52" w)

Materials: re-purposed linen damask, hemp silk blend fabric, indigo dye, cotton embroidery and quilting threads  (bamboo batt)

Techniques:  paste resist, hand embroidery, hand quilting.   (Entirely hand stitched)

the tuck that seams the two pieces of indigo dyed cloth together creates a horizon line.

2015  Perivale Gallery Spring Bay Manitoulin Island.  May 17- September 15 2015
2015  Quilts=Art=Quilts  Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center  Oct 31 2015 - Jan 3 2016
2016  World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario  Oct 29  - November 27 2016

Bachelard Series

Bachelard Series:  Memories  2012   film photographs, thread, artist canvas, hand stitch, framed in shadowbox under glass, 18" h x 22" w

Bachelard Series:  Solitude  2012   film photographs, thread, artist canvas, hand stitch, framed in shadowbox under glass, 18" h x 22" w


Exhibition Record
2012 - Three of the Bachelard series were shown at the Perivale Gallery for the 2012 season.   One of them sold.  (sorry, no photo)

2014-16 - Art Gallery of Sudbury art rental