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One of Judy Martin's masterpieces, the two-sided linen damask / organdy textile, has entered private collection this month.
Starry Starry is made from a linen damask table cloth that has been dyed with procion dye and marked with a grid of holes. These holes are filled with velvet using the reverse applique technique. The dots are encircled by radiating lines that are embroidered with silk threads.
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| Holy Holy |
From my living room / studio window, I can see the sky above the water of Lake Huron. One of the most remarkable things about each day is how much the sky and the water change colour. One of the most remarkable things about the sky, is that there are so many stars in it, even in the daytime. Judy Martin
A Quilt For Baby Earth was sold by the Perivale Gallery in August 2025.
It measures 47.5 x 46 inches and is a quilt made with handkerchief linen and small amounts of coloured velvet. The surface is embroidered with the poem, Planet Earth, by Canadian poet P.K. Page. The words describe ways of loving and caring and nurturing the earth will all the grasses and lakes.
Judy has permission from the estate of P.K. Page to use this poem in her work. For those interested in reading the complete text, it is avaialbe at this link .
Congratulations to the new collector. I hope that you will find much to appreicate in this piece. Please contact me by email. It's important that I know the provenence of this piece and the information might be needed in the future. Thank you!
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silk thread on linen, mounted on wool blanket, framed in wood (frame not shown)
hand stitch
12 inches x 12 inches 2025 by Judy Martin
Sold in July 2025 from the Perivale gallery.
The title, Yin Yin, refers to the philosophy of yin and yang.
If
yang is fast, yin is slow, if yang is sun, yin is moon. Yang is my outers self, while yin is my
inner.
The first side of
this small piece shows off the raw tactility of the wrong side of reverse
applique dots, metaphors for our interesting, vulnerable inner selves.
The back of the
piece, usually against the wall, is marked with the right side of those same
dots.
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| yin yin on display in the STARDUST exhibition, 2023, Gore Bay Museum |
My work explores the idea of inner self.
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| yin yin on display in the INSIDE OUT exhibition, 2023, Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario Canada |
Humans have two sides, public and private. With two 'wrong' sides, this piece represents private and private.
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| Yin yin in SOFTER and DREAMIER exhibition 2024, Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK |
An original quilt made with three layers of material. The
first layer is made from hand dyed linen. The middle layer is wool
batting. The third layer is white wool
gauze.
A grid of hand dyed velvet dots covers the surface of both
the front and the back of the quilt. On
the first side, these dots are surrounded by raw edges of linen, while on the
second side the dots are neatly finished.
It was while making the dots that the artist discovered the importance
of the second side, or what she terms ‘the inside’. The ‘inner world’ has since become her
primary subject.
Yin Yin is 27 x 36” Reverse applique, hand quilted with cotton button thread.
This week, Yin Yin enters a private collection in the USA.
Lake
Linen, silk, wool and shibori back, indigo dyed, hand embroidered, hand quilted 66 x 52 inches, 2014
Above Us
silk, cotton, cotton threads, chemical dye, hand embroidery-quilted, 81 x 40 inches 2015
sold through Guildworks in Prince Edward County Ontario
A personal favourite of the artist, this piece has been exhibited many times since it was finished in 2019. Cotton, sari silk, silk velvet, natural dyes, wool, cotton and silk threads, hand stitched. 140 x 126 cm
Sold into private collection through Guildworks Prince Edward County, Ontario Canada October 2023.
Sold from Guildworks in August 2023.
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time passes over the earth - velvet, silk, hand pieced over foundations, hand quilted, 20.5 x 20", 2015 has gone into private collection this week. (in Australia)
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a kitten of a piece, so small and soft.
The two person exhibition with Penny Berens / Judy Martin and curator Miranda Bouchard will be touring to Northern Ontario and hopefully Nova Scotia in the next few years. A catalogue about this body of work will be published in 2022.
The two pods on the right of image went into a private collection in January. The collector approached Guildworks gallery and Guy de Carteret acted as an agent with the artist. The titles of the two wrapped bundles are: When My Arms Wrap Round (the hanging one) and My Heart (the floor one). The hanging artwork on the left in the above image is entitled Time Future: Touch the Stars by Judy Martin.
Photo by Paul Latour
Cotton and velvet hand stitched quilt.
Wool hand stitched quilt.
Watercolour and thread painting
Summer sales 2021.
Velvet, silk tie fabric, daily applique journal on felt base, 2018
This piece measures 33" x 20" and it sold into private collection through the Perivale Gallery last month. The Perivale Gallery is on Manitoulin, and Judy has shown work there every single season since she moved to the island in 1993. Click here to see Judy's work for the 2021 season and also the other fine artists at the gallery.
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| Beauty Emotion Spirit Soul found fabrics, applique, embroidery, hand stitch 49" x 49" 2019 Judy Martin |
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| leaving the nest 2016 Judy Martin cold wax and oil on wood panel |
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