Judy's Journal

Janice Wright Cheney Janet Wright Cheney's life-sized bear, Widow, is armoured nose to paw in felted woollen roses and a velvet hide.  S...

Last Tuesday Rachel from Breaking the Blocks / Crafty Monkees interviewed me.  She asks artists to talk about their lives and how their art...

Frances Dorsey When Frances Dorsey was seven to ten years old, she lived in Saigon, Viet Nam.   She remembers "a paradise on the edge o...

Here is another post about writing my book.   Since 2000, I have been trying to archive my art work and relate it to the timeline of my life...

Have I mentioned that I'm writing a book?   I want to put my life and my artwork into some kind of meaningful context. At first I though...

Grey Scale I by Polly Apfelbaum, marker on silk/rayon velvet, 60 x 37 inches,  2015   Ned and I went to the National Gallery of Canada to vi...

Sunday:   Idea:  to work from the back, to use more colour, to cut silk in narrow strips, to couch it to the back. I write this idea down be...

 Crown of Thorns 1972.  first quilt by Judy Martin  re-purposed clothing and curtain fabric, hand pieced and hand quilted,  (no longer exist...