I’ve been working on this piece to donate to the Ossabaw Island Fundraiser. Each year they invite artists to submit a piece of art that folks are then able to buy, and the proceeds go to the Ossabaw Island Foundation. Last year I donated my Oak With Lichen.

The top half of this piece is cotton, cut from some fabric I bought from Pat Pauley. I studied with her a couple months ago, and learned her process for printing and painting using thickened dye. I love the organic nature of her marks and the way the colors flow into one another. I’m pretty sure she scraped thickened dye to create this fabric, and the expressiveness of the marks, especially the blue, are quite seductive.

The bottom half of the piece is linen, which I painted with earth mineral pigment, the process I mentioned in my last blog post. The threads are a mix of silk, cotton, linen and mohair. I tried to gently suggest marks on a trunk and a vine climbing from the trunk to the sky.