Basic Goodness

 Basic Goodness
stitch resisted cotton, procion dye, silk and cotton threads
hand stitched

36 inches high x 35.5 inches wide or 92 cm h x 90 cm w
2017

Exhibition record:

Basic Goodness is one of the seven new pieces created for Judy Martin's solo exhibition in October 2017 at the David Kaye Gallery, Toronto.
It is now in private collection.

Click on The Cloud In  Me, to see images and descriptions of the entire exhibition.
October 5 -29  2017  David Kaye Gallery, Toronto

My Light Green Heart

 My Light Green Heart    22.5" wide and 29" high  (57 x 74 cm ), 2017  old linen damask, procion dyes, cotton and wool threads,  Tucked, stitched and quilted by hand

how she submitted, 

loved,

loved her interior world

her interior wilderness

the primal forest inside her where among decayed tree trunks

her heart stood

light green

Rainer Maria Rilke

(using the female rather than male pronoun)

Exhibitions

2017:
Craft Ontario 17
1106 Queen West Toronto

Perspectives From Here   Northwestern Ontario artists about Canada 150
Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Thunder Bay Ontario

2018:
January 11 to March 30
Quest Art High Craft Juried Exhibition
Midland Ontario
AWARD  (second place)

2019:
Perivale Gallery summer season, sold into to private collection

Above Us

Above Us  2015   reverse side of  the air becomes cloth

silk,cotton, cotton and silk threads, quilted with reverse of hand embroidery
81 inches high, 40 inches wide

turning the air to cloth

turning the air to cloth  2015
linen, cotton, silk, procion mx dye, block printing ink, cotton and silk threads
batik, block print,completely hand stitched (hand construction, hand embroidery, hand quilting, hand quilting with embroidery
81 inches high, 40 inches wide (detail of hand embroidery shown above)

Birds in flight astound us when, moving in unison, their fleeting crosses darken the sky.
Suddenly they are gone and it's blue eternity again.

Exhibition:  In the spirit of Tom Thomson and the Group of seven
July 23 - August 7 2016 at the Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay, Manitoulin Island

Beginning With Time

Beginning With Time: Day  78" x 90" (198 x 228cm) 2015  re-purposed wool blankets and blanket cloth, wool yarns, silk velvet, plant dyes and procion mx dyes.
Reverse applique, seed stitch, all by hand

Beginning With Time: Night  78" x 90"  2015  re-purposed wool blankets, cotton velveteen, wool yarns, alpaca roving, silk velvet, plant dyes and procion mx dyes. Reverse applique, couching, seed stitch, all by hand.

This is a two sided piece.  Both sides are the right side.
Created for the exhibition Wild Pure Aesthetic Wonder
which was curated by Gloria Hickey and Philippa Jones.

Exhibition Record:

Wild Pure Aesthetic Wonder, Craft Council gallery, Devon House, 59 Duckworth Street, St. John's Newfoundland.   March 21 - April 25 2015.  The exhibition includes 20 contemporary fibre artists, most from Newfoundland.

Wild Pure Aesthetic Wonder, Woody Point Discovery Centre in Gros Morne National Park, May 1 - October 16, 2015.  part of  Fibre Arts Newfoundland October 14-18.

Perspectives from Here  Thunder Bay Art Gallery   June - September 2017 in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday.  Artists in this exhibition were all connected to the north western region of Ontario.  Judy Martin was born in Fort Frances.

Beginning With Time is in private collection and was loaned for these exhibitions.

silver water

Silver Water   2012    indigo on rayon and on linen with shibori markings, tucked seam, hand quilted with embroidery floss   14" x 54"   detail shown above

Silver Water 2012, Judith e Martin

Silver Water side b  2012  Judith e Maritn

Silver Water 2012  side b  procion dyed cotton and rayon, hand quilted with embroidery floss  14" x 54|"  (detail above)

Silver Water is in private collection