Perivale Gallery opens May 19 2013

Ceremony For Innocence
ink, wax, photo transfer, stitch

Judy Martin has three pieces at the Perivale this season. 
Perivale Gallery, Manitoulin Island
open weekends in May and June
every day from July 1 to Labour day
Spring Bay , Manitoulin Island
705 377 4847

Opening of Threadworks 2013

Judy e Martin spoke at the opening of Threadworks 2013 on April 28.  The exhibition continues until June 9 at the Wellington County Museum and Archives.


above video by Evelyn Ward de Roo

Details below of  just three of the 58 artworks made with needle and thread on the theme of Water.

 But Will It Hold Water? by Evelyn Ward de Roo, juror's award

Spring Thaw by Tracey Lawko, award for free motion embroidery                              

Sirens by Mary Kroetsch,

Threadworks 2013 ~ WATER

Threadworks Juried Traveling Show 2013

April 20 to June 9

Opening reception and awards ceremony: April 28, 1 - 4 pm

Wellington County Museum

0536 County Road 18

Fergus, Ontario

519 846 0916

Judy Martin is one of the jurors for this national show of needlework created by members of guilds associated with the Ontario Network of Needleworkers (ONN) and/or any Canadian residents. All entries will be juried on site at the museum and need to arrive there before April 8 with a completed entry form.  There are 7awards.  The other jurors are William Hodge and Sylvia Naylor

German exhibition

Can you see Judy e Martin's signature and the year Monumental Simplicity was made? 
(2012) (in chain stitch) 
 

naturally dyed wool, hand stitched, 9 feet square.
Hanging in the Villa Weiser in Herxheim, Southern Germany. (photo by Monika Bruekner)
The show continues until March 10, 2013.  See entry below for more details.

Continuum in Germany

The exhibition that began at Middlesex University in June 2012, then travelled to Oakville in Canada for the World of Threads Festival in November 2012, now opens in Herxheim bei Landau, Germany on Sunday February 17, 2013 at 11 am..

Ten artists are included.  Monika Brueckner from Germany, Denise Jones, Val Cross, Caroline Hibbs, Jean Kirk, Victoria Jenkins all from England, and Ingrid Lincoln, Lesley Turner and Judy e Martin from Canada.

Monumental Simplicity, a pieced wool and silk cloth coloured with plants from Manitoulin Island Canada and hand stitched with silk yarn is Judy Martin's exhibition piece.  The gallery is the Villa Wieser.

Images of the installation are on my main blog - click here.

Local art at the library

Red Thread
graphite drawing, ink wash, red silk thread embroidery on paper

Shown in the December exhibit of local artists at the Little Current Library until early January 2013.
Click here for library hours.

Le Nouveau Louvre

 milkweed, watercolour on gesso on cotton with stitch

smoke flower, watercolour on gesso on cotton, with stitch

November 24 - December 22, 2012
La Galerie du Nouvel Ontario annual fundraiser
all paintings are $150 - with $100 going to artist, $50 to the gallery
It is possible to purchase many pieces of northern Ontario art at the gallery 174 Elgin street or through the web site.  Click here to see the exhibition.  (these are sold)