Judy Martin

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Canadian artist Judith E. Martin creates poetic  hand-stitched textiles informed by memoir and nature. Her pieces are exhibited internationally and are included in several museum collections, such as the International Quilt Museum in Nebraska, USA.  Born and raised in North Western Ontario, Judy has lived on Manitoulin Island for over 30 years.  The art that she shares with visitors to Perivale Gallery each season is about being present in our precious world.  Her work is about care.

"I love being with needle and thread, allowing my mind to wander as I put rhythmic marks into the cloth in my lap.  The thin cloths I make always have two interesting sides and I believe that they illustrate an interior world.  My palette is a combination of neutrals with gentle colour, my key materials are red thread, soft velvet, and time, and the recurring motifs are dot grids, horizon lines, cosmic circles, and plus-sign/crosses.  I hope to communicate at a heart-to-heart level with my work through the sense of touch.”