Arlene Mathieu has worked in various art media for over four decades and exhibited throughout the United States. Her work is included in private collections in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Her formal training was in painting, and textiles and design; Mathieu also has a degree in cultural anthropology. Her work in the fiber arts employs a collage technique, with stitching as drawn line. It includes hand-dyed--by Mathieu--fabric in which color is reminiscent of watercolor washes, as well as commercial fabrics, digital photos printed on fabric, Asian and other hand-made papers, and found objects, many of these from nature.

Stepping Into
$600

Fabrics hand-dyed (by artist) and commercial, paper, digital photo printed on cotton
Collage; machine stitching and quilting


Splashes of color, the play of light and shade; feather-like fronds moving in the wind, petals tissue paper thin. Step around a corner, and there, another display. And as always in a natural landscape, reminders of change and the ephemeral.