Artworks with Texture

Each artwork here is unusual - unique - in that it is crafted through the meticulous manipulation of the fibres of simple cheesecloth, sometimes with the addition of painted fabric, resulting in intricate texture and compelling imagery.

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Mary Pal is a Canadian artist best known for her fibre artworks made with cheesecloth. Her work is exhibited internationally, purchased for private and museum collections throughout North America, and widely published. A juried artist member and former board member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, she is an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of the fibre art movement.

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It’s been a busy and exciting year settling in to Victoria. I spent six weeks in Ottawa, helping to look after my granddaughters. And then earlier this month, my new grandson arrived. Basically making baby quilts and other family heirlooms and
If you are in Vancouver between now and August 28, you can take in this show in which I am exhibiting Hokusai’s Great Wave Revisited. And if you are at Il Museo Gallery in the Italian Cultural Centre on Thursday, July 11 between 1 and 3, we can
Proud to be putting Canada on the map as I participate in this prestigious show in Taiwan that opens a month from now. I will post photos of the event when I receive them. Delighted that my portrait of Sir David Attenborough in A World of Difference
Fun to watch Willie in action as he tours a number of US venues, teaching viewers the magic of cheesecloth in fiber art.
I am delighted to be exhibiting my David Attenborough portrait, "A World of Difference" in Current Threads 2024, a multi-media surface design art show presented the Surface Design Association BC + Yukon. Join us at the Pat Martin Bates Gall
The Drifter is still drifting. I have not seen him in many years as he has traveled to a series of US galleries, part of the SAQA Layered and Stitched exhibition, and then before I left for China, I was invited to have him shipped to the Cameron Art
Those of you who have followed my work may remember this piece from 2011, entitled Musing. Instagram was in its infancy, so I don’t think she ever got posted here. Her presence was requested by the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC for an ex