Lorraine Roy

Dundas, Ontario

A passion for plants and nature lead Lorraine to choose formal training in Ornamental Horticulture. But eventually, her earlier fascination with embroidery and fabric collage evolved into a full time art profession, noted for a painterly approach with textiles and threads. She works intuitively, using thousands of fabric and thread cuttings like a painter uses paint. The result is an accumulation of semi-transparent layers, hiding and revealing what lies beneath, and building up images that physically embody the breadth and nature of her themes.