Wendy Martin Art

Wendy’s work explores the abstractions of the wilderness of being, the juxtaposition between movement & stillness, expansion & contraction, expression & silence.

A  word weaver & poet, movement educator, natural dyer, seamstress, and maker of things, Wendy shapes her art as a container to process, digest and experience the wildness of life. 

Wendy creates handmade living inks sourced from locally foraged materials. Including berries, flower petals, leaves &  grasses.  These natural pigments are shifted with mineral salt modifiers, which transforms a singular pigment into a spectrum of colours. These original works are photographed and turned into fine art prints to preserve the quality of the original pigment (which naturally fades with time and light exposure)

Wendy also works with raw canvas and dyes, both natural & fibre reactive dyes. She hand ties each piece to create resistance patterns that when immersed in the dye solution, creates an embedded pattern, depth, dimension & interest. 

Wendy’s work explores the relationships of seasons & cycles, both in nature and within her own inner landscape. She works instinctively & intuitively with an assortment of mixed media, a process, which creates a range of wildly unpredictable prints and impressions. 

 Hand stitches, machine stitching, fibre weaving, hand made paper & original poetry, are all modalities used in the expression of bold, wild and untamed statements. 

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