Dorothy caldwell

Flying Over Salt Lakes, stitching on cotton with earth ochre, approximately 13" x 16", 2013 Dorothy Caldwell has become an icon for textile artists, exhibiting and teaching around the world. We Canadians claim her as our own, as she has lived in Ontario since the mid seventies, relocating here from the USA. The images in this post are of Dorothy Caldwell's latest exhibition, Silent Ice, Deep Patience, installed in the Art Gallery of Peterborough March 21 until June 22, 2014. Left: Map…

Dorothy Caldwell, Pink Hill, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 Pink Hill is one of a family of five intimate textiles installed together from Dorothy Caldwell's Silent Ice Deep Patience exhibition at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Pink Hill, like her fellow earth ochre encrusted sisters, is about 18" X 24" and is mounted on industrial felt. Pink Hill has a subdued colour palette of black, pale yellow and pale pink. The loopy texture reminds me of a chenille bedspread and makes me wonder…

I have recently returned home after my week at Shakerag Workshops in Sewanee, Tennessee. I had been there once before and it was so nice to return this warm, friendly, gracious and familiar place. It was wonderful to see some friends I had met there previously and join up with those that I was acquainted with from other areas. After teaching for a week at Arrowmont I decided to roll on down the road and be a student at Shakerag Workshops. I took a class with Dorothy Caldwell entitled Human…

Dorothy Caldwell Map without words, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 With dimensions a staggering 9'4" by 8'5", Map without words is monumental. For curators and some gallery goers, size matters, and this textile, as well as four others (that I will share in future posts) deliver. Dorothy lavishes each textile with such care and detail that it frustrates me that, unless the gallery provides a skyjack, I can't see it all up close and personal. A passage from Canadian mystery author Louise…

With so much going on here.......later on that......I've little time to post.......however........prompted by India Flint's announcement of Dorothy's class in Brisbane at our friend Roz's beautiful setting.......I was reminded of two things........My amazing experience attending a workshop titled 'Human Marks' with Dorothy......and it's location........Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. Soooooooooooooo..........as we all do have trouble editing these workshop photos, I'm…

My recent work is the result of parallel projects carried out in the Flinders Ranges, and the Kimberly in Australia and in Pangnirtung, and Bathurst Inlet in the Canadian Arctic. I want to experien…

A Red Hill/A Green Hill 2012 by Dorothy Caldwell ink wash, earth ochre on cotton with stitching and applique, 284.4 x 294.6 cm This post highlights two of my Canadian heroines and their beautiful philosophies about making. In this interview with Dorothy Caldwell Dimitri Papatheodorou of the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg Ontario visits Dorothy in her studio this summer. (2020). The two discussed her touring 2014 exhibition Silent Ice Deep Silence and the research that went into…

I was lucky this year to get into the workshop of my dreams--the Dorothy Caldwell Mark Making workshop at Nancy Crow 's art barn in Ohio. ...

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Dorothy Caldwell, Pink Hill, 2013; Photo © Karen Thiessen, 2014 Pink Hill is one of a family of five intimate textiles installed together from Dorothy Caldwell's Silent Ice Deep Patience exhibition at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Pink Hill, like her fellow earth ochre encrusted sisters, is about 18" X 24" and is mounted on industrial felt. Pink Hill has a subdued colour palette of black, pale yellow and pale pink. The loopy texture reminds me of a chenille bedspread and makes me wonder…