Artist Statement

Edie Brown blends over thirty years of Zen practice and her work in healthcare as a registered nurse, with her textile work. "When the eye and hand meet the cloth, every stitch grounds me". With playfulness and openness, Edie continues her exploration by dyeing, stitching, and working three-dimensionality with fibres.   She appreciates the support and building of community with other fibre artists.

Biography

Edie Brown expresses a state of mind within the context of meditation and contemporary textile art.   Her exploration of meditative stitching, dyeing, and surface design began in 1995, first exhibiting in 2003. 

Edie continues to explore the intersections of meditation in daily life and “speaking in cloth”.  The journey becomes a path with a visual language for that which can’t be named.

Acknowledgements

With gratitude to RR Jones for the photos of my work and for all my teachers that have come before me on this path.