Layers of Meaning

Judith Martin - an Entwining of Images and Color

Judith Martin's extraordinary quilts are featured at creativity.com. She also maintains her own web site with a full gallery. Martin's work utilizes photographic, painting and embroidery to create representational expressive images in fiber. Intriguing is how her use of photographic images weaves into the other surfacing techniques, rather than standing apart.

Martin lives on a small island in Canada, where she creates art works that focus on the balancing act of most contemporary women: " "Quilt making is my art process. Its subject is my life story, which is typical of many women my age. I am married, have children and work outside the home. I have aging parents, an emptying nest, and several sets of friends. I live close to nature and I worry a lot. All of these things are the content of my art. If I could have chosen a process of how to express it, I would have chosen poetry or painting. The quilt language of traditional pattern and emotional colour has chosen me." (from creativity.com)

image: The Blood Shimmers by Judith Martin