While a painting major in college, I took an elective in textile design and discovered batik and Shibori, traditional dyeing techniques from Asia that produce patterns on fabric. In love with the color geometries coming out of the dye bath I began to split my creative time between oil painting and fabric dying. Painting taught me to closely observe the physical world and explore the spatial powers of color while at the same time I was playing in the dye studio with abstract form and pattern. Both processes melded and influenced my work over the years.
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Dyed Textiles

Red Star, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, 44"x20", 2014

Queen of the Night, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, 39" x 80", 2015

Blue Mozart, resist-dyed shantung, fiber- reactive dyes, 23” x 70, 2015

Regeneration, resist-dyed cotton, fiber-reactive dye, 39' x 60", 2015

Replication, resist-dyed silk satin with fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 19” x 38”, 2015

Pink Mitosis, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 15” x 44”, 2015

Red Mitosis, resist-dyed shantung silk, fiber-reactive-dyes, thiox, 14”x 44”, 2015

In the Garden, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive-dyes, thiox, 15” x 44, 2015

In Bloom, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 15” x 44”, 2015

Reflection, resist-dyed silk shantung, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 15” x 44”, 2015

Sunspots, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015

Madame Butterfly, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015

Sequence, resist-dyed raw silk with fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 17” x 21”, 2015

Note To Rothko, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 20” x 22", 2015

Analagous Dream, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox, 44” x 15”, 2015

Shape Shift, resist-dyed raw silk, fiber-reactive dyes, thiox 44” x 15”, 2015

Mastery, textile pigment printed on felt with thermofax screens, 8" x 15", 2016

Blue Birds, fiber-reactive dye painted on silk shantung and printed textile pigment, 18" x 24, 2016