Original art by Rev. Cathy M Grigsby,
This is a quilted fabric piece. The individual panels are made using disperse dye. The dye is mixed and then painted on paper. Once dry it can be cut into collages and then heat pressed onto polyester fabric. Individual panels are machine quilted by the artist.
These little individual landscapes were made over a number of years as an exercise in playfulness, as I would use scraps of the papers from other pieces and sometimes not even know what the colors were going to be as the papers are often very different when they are transferred to the fabric. As I was looking at them last spring they suddenly seemed to go together as small glimpses into imaginary landscapes.
Rev. Cathy Grigsby is an Interfaith Minister, artist, retired art teacher, Arts Minister for Chime, Founder of the Interfaith Ministers of New England, and Director of the Community of a New Monastic Way. She lives in Bridgton, Maine with her husband, Greg, who is also an Interfaith Minister. They have three sons and six grandchildren.
