The Earth Speaks
Solo exhibit at The Art Base, Basalt, Colorado.
Dorothy Raymond has spent her life in love with the Western landscape, but it was her husband who introduced her to the beauty of the oceans.
“I want to evoke a sense of recognition; a feeling of ‘yes, I have been there’. . . My ocean/land pieces are all about the ebb and flow of water as it meets the land.”
While Raymond’s constructed works pull directly from the tradition of quilt making, the fabrics, palette, and textural qualities are directly sourced from the beauty of her immediate environment. The constant rearrangement of these cut shapes is the process by which she composes her artwork. She then secures the cut shapes in place with machine stitching that is integrated with the composition.
“Textiles and thread are the means I use to better understand and narrate the natural landscape of Colorado and the boundary between the ocean and the land.”
Dorothy currently lives and works in Loveland, CO and her work has been displayed broadly, recently including The Loveland Museum, The Gallery at FDC, Denver, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, and the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.
Sisters: Nurtured by Nature
Two-artist exhibit at the Murray Art Guild
Two sisters, Annette and Dorothy, growing up on a small dry land farm in northern Colorado, took different paths in life, only to share making art together in in later years.
The lawyer sister learned from the artist sister about composition and the importance of value. As the lawyer sister grew in her artistic practice, the sisters realized that even though they focused on different media, their landscape depictions of the outdoors were strikingly similar. This catalog of their first joint exhibit shows off just how similar their artistic sensibilities are.
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