Quebec artist Sylvie Lajoie melds thread drawing and acrylic paint for her unique works. (Below: Main Street Gossip, 20 x 16″)
Her studies in fashion design, followed by visual arts, led her to her preferred medium: textiles and thread. First, Lajoie drew on linen and cotton, but since 2016, she changed the technique. (Below: The Girls, 24 x 24)
Since that time, what Lajoie calls “drawing on thread” has been based primarily on photography, which she uses to create her canvases. Paper has become integrated into her works, and the trio of “photo, fiber, and paper” is an integral part of her current practice.
Above: Jacqueline, Berthe and Laurette, 16 x 12 “
Sylvie Lajoie’s website, here.
At Bloom Gallery, Montreal, which represents her, here.
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They look like puppets. Just pull the strings and they will move.
Oh I love that image. Too true. Thank you!
I feel like a child sometimes when I see art. Say the first thing that comes to mind. Like the little boy in the book, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” That’s the beauty of art though, we all have our own interpretation of what we see.
I love these works! And they must be so much more compelling, when seen in the gallery and all their textures are right there before you in 3D. The chattering women made me think of a work I only heard about,& “saw,” for the first time yesterday, when one character in a book I was reading mentioned it to another: the sculpture Les Causeuses by Camille Claudel. How odd, and how rewarding, the jumps our minds can make. (And thank you internet, for letting me immediately discover what those book characters were talking about… https://www.museecamilleclaudel.fr/fr/platre-causeuses )
That’s a fascinating comment and an intriguing link. Always happy to see you’ve weighed in!