For just over 20 years, Lorraine Roy has been working with textiles in non-tradtional ways. By using a unique mixture of techniques like sewing, collage, embroidery and quilting, she integrates thousands of bits of fabric and threads with fine transparent tulle and machine stitching. The results combine her passion for science and spirituality while exploring the earthy origins and surprising versatility of fabrics and threads.
Lorraine’s formal education in Horticulture and subsequent research have become a steady source of material for her tree and plant images. From the start she combined representational motifs mixed with symbols from dreams, memories, and mythology. Lately she has been experimenting with abstracted images, a form that she finds more and more fascinating with each new breakthrough.
Lorraine’s formal education in Horticulture and subsequent research have become a steady source of material for her tree and plant images. From the start she combined representational motifs mixed with symbols from dreams, memories, and mythology. Lately she has been experimenting with abstracted images, a form that she finds more and more fascinating with each new breakthrough.
Lorraine now lives in Greensville, with her husband, photographer Janusz Wrobel. Visit her website at http://www.lroytextileart.com/ .
