Carolyn Dahl's passions are painted textiles, nature prints, and handmade paper baskets. Beginning with ideas from her journals and poetry, she explores the many possibilities of each medium. The resulting artworks have been show in museums (New Orleans, Mint Museum, Santa Fe), art centers (Chicago Textile Arts Center, Brookfield Craft Center, Arrowmont), in numerous commercial galleries, and in Holland and Italy. Magazines such as American Craft, World of Embroidery (England), Fiberarts, and Southwest Art have featured her work as well as Fiberarts Design Books, The New Photocrafts, Paper Sculpture, and Guild 7 in which she was an American Crafts award winner. She has also been a featured guest on Home and Garden Television (The Carol Duvall show and Simply Quilts) and PBS (Creative Living and Sew Creative. She is the author of TRANSFORMING FABRIC: 30 Creative Ways to Paint, Dye and Pattern Cloth (Krause Publications/F&W Books) and the nature printing book NATURAL IMPRESSIONS: Taking An Artistic Path Through Nature (Watson-Guptill Publications).
From Flower, to Eye, to Garden of Memories
$490

Hand-painted and dyed cotton, prints from real flowers, beads and buttons
Machine and hand embroidered

If we will but look at the world closely, lovingly, reverently, everything that
exists in nature can be ours forever, imprinted in our memories through
the magic of our collecting eyes. When we crave to see the beautiful, the
cherished object again, we need only remember.