Floral Impressions

…from the dye garden. I am often asked if my plant dye art and experimentation includes ecoprinting, i.e. making flower prints on fabric. Until 2023 the answer has been no, not yet. It’s sort of like the questions I have been asked since I started weaving: Do you spin your own yarn? Do you dye your own fiber? Do you (insert any number of deepening of experience of working with fiber arts)? While the answer was always, no, not yet, […]

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Textile creation for “Common Threads” project in honor of St. Brigid

I am the Irish Consulate of San Francisco’s chosen artist to participate in a global project: “Common Threads” in celebration of St. Brigid’s Day 2023. See the gallery showcasing each piece and the artist who created it. As an Irish-American using materials endemic to this place where I live, I am contributing a small part of a larger cloak or “brat” to be assembled from pieces coming from all over the world and to be exhibited in Dublin in February […]

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28 Days in May: avian observations

This is the story of the journey of a father-daughter collaboration to create an illustrated poetry book. In 2009, my dad came to me with a collection of haiku he had written almost daily about the birds he observed in the backyard and along the river bank of my family home in Washington State. Together we have enjoyed sitting along the riverbank observing the bird activity, and over the years the bald eagle pair and their offspring in the cottonwood […]

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Foraging for Color

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I began experimenting with using foraged plants and flowers and food scraps in my own kitchen as natural dye materials in 2017. For regular updates on this, head over to my IG feed: @sfurbanwanderer. For a fiber and textile fanatic who loves color, this was probably an inevitable exploration. I am the kind of person who takes photos like this at museums (from the Vasa Museet in Stockholm) and reads books like this for fun. As I began to learn […]

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