embroidery + collagraphic print
Embroidery
collagraphic print + embroidery
Collagraphic Print
Collagrpahic Prints
Collagraphic Prints
The Migration Cloak is a hand-sewn, printed, and embroidered silk organza cloak. It features shell beads and removable silk Monarch Butterflies. This piece captures the sweep, the light, and the colors of a red sand pocket beach in Phippsburg, Maine during the fall migration.
Hand-cut and sewn from a vintage wool family blanket. This coat is embroidered with the first birds of spring on our fields in Bowdoinham, Maine.
Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
A small linen pillow embroidered with a quote from Robin Wall Kimmerer and microscopic images of carrot seeds.
A series of dresses, coats, and Japanese aprons made of silk organza and linen. Hand-dyed and hand-printed with seaweed plates. Embroidered with images of marine life, both microscopic and actual size.
Silk organza dress. Hand-painted, printed, and embroidered with creatures from the vernal pools of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Sanagi is a Japanese word meaning chrysalis. A collection of hand-sewn silk organza tunics in the style of a traditional Japanese work apron. Printed, embroidered, and beaded.
A collaboration with couturier Suzanne MacFadyen creating a collection of silk organza clothing. Seaweed printed and hand-tailored.
A series of hemp panels printed and embroidered with views up through the tree canopy
A line of hand-died scarves and clothing in silk and rayon printed with collagraph plates made with materials collected from the intertidal zone.
A project researching life on an 18th-century farmstead on Cape Ann. Created printing plates from surrounding current-day family farms using native crops and plants that were part of the landscape then and now. The exhibit surrounded the house in printed yardage, bringing color and life back to this historic structure in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
A series of silk and hemp wall panels depicting local landscapes. These large-scale works are hand-sewn and collagraph printed with plates made with gathered materials. They are studies of larger landscapes made with elements from the landscape itself — an exploration of universal shapes in nature and how they can be interchangeable.
