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Margie
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Margie Davidson is a friend of long standing. We met more than 20
years ago in a deaf education course at the University of Alberta.
Through the years our friendship has developed into a warm and caring
bond. As neighbours and friends we have shared a love of textiles
and quilting along with the events of our lives both big and small.
Margie is a talented quilt artist and surface designer. She is most
happy when she is making or altering fabrics. Her love of colour
leads her to play with abandon with paints |
and
dyes. Her curiosity has enabled her to devise increasingly complex
experiments with her materials.
Teaching is also an important part of who Margie is. She is an an
engaging entertaining speaker and a supportive instructor. She loves
her role as a teacher of women learning to quilt. However, she is
equally engaged in teaching children and young adults at the Edmonton
Art Gallery where she is employed as an educator.
Her award winning quilts have been exhibited in Canada and the United
States. She is currently participating in the "Inside
the Dress" project .
I am pleased to indroduce my dear friend, Margie Davidson.
- Mary
Holdgrafer.
Margie
writes:
"For me, colour is the most important design element in developing
my own artwork and when viewing art of any media. Playing and experimenting
with colour as I discharge print or paint fabric in my backyard
each summer is a joyful part of my creative process. I am drawn
to trees, and trees often appear in my work, both realistic and
in a simpler abstracted form of line.
Having developed my techniques through studying with many wonderful
quilt teachers such as Nancy Crow, Jane Sassaman, David Walker,
Velda Newman and others, I am now questioning how to develop my
voice in fabric further. Where I am going in my art is not entirely
clear to me. I am approaching this creative journey with some anxiety
and much excitement."
Margie Davidson. November, 2004
Please
click on these thumbnail images to view the enlargements:
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Patch Fall Out
size: 36" x 22"
Cotton fabric, canvas, hand-dyed cotton by Judy Robertson, cotton
and rayon thread.
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Healing Landscape
size: 13 " x 32"
Cotton fabric, cotton, rayon and metallic thread.
detail
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Following the Drunkard's Path
size: 29" x 49"
Cotton fabric and thread.
detail
This piece won the 'Innovative Small Wallquilt' award in
the Canadian Quilters' Association 16th
Annual National Juried Show at Quilt Canada, Winnipeg, 2004.
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