Craft Ontario promotes the Award program with images of Judith Martin's work

Prayer Cloth: Hope   by Judy Martin  2024

golden rod on cotton, stitched with red thread

40 x 40 inches

Two of Judy Martin's new works have been chosen by Craft Ontario to promote the award applications on social media.  Martin won one of the awards in 2024 (the Gladstone House award).  

Martin's work is featured on Craft Ontario's Instagram account (here)  and on the council's facebook promotional page.  (here).

Applying for the Craft Council awards helps an artist to gather their work together, take stock of what has been accomplished, and what direction one might want to go in future work.   Judy Martin

You Are A Single Star by Judy Martin
Fifteen Dresden Plate appliques made in the 70's, new wool, natural dyes
90 x 90 inches, 2024, hand stitched with wool and cotton thread.  

Ontario Craft Council highlights the 2025 awards on their website, as well as listing all 2024 recipients. 

Ontario Craft Council chooses Canadian Pioneer for booth display at the Interior Design Show in Toronto

 Canadian Pioneer  Wool Quilt, embroidered and felted, 2012

Hopefully, this piece will draw attendees of the Interior Design Show in Toronto January 23 - 26 2014 to the booth of the Ontario Craft Council. 

The craft council is using the following biography of the artist, Judy Martin in their display.

Judy Martin and her husband reside on Lake Huron’s Manitoulin Island, a relatively isolated place typical of the peaceful beauty she has sought her entire life.  This self-imposed retreat has a marked effect on Martin’s work, which is grounded in the phenomenological idea that the sense of touch is the most effective way to connect emotionally with others.  Her repetitive stitches communicate directly to our inner world.

Judy Martin has participated in more than one hundred group shows in Canada, the USA, Europe, and Japan and she has mounted twenty-four solo exhibitions.  The Finnish characteristic, sisu, (courage, optimism, indomitable will) sets Judy Martin’s work apart.