Capricorn Goat hand tooled and textured in leather with constellation in a blue black sky.

Determination 

Embroidery on linen using chain, back, running stitches, and french knots. There is a hole torn off to the left side. Stray threads are seen entering and exiting the opening.

The Center Will Not Hold

A wool tapestry of a little bird in various colors of blue, standing at the edge of the seashore.  Special tapestry technique includes color gradations created by splitting the 4-ply wool strands and re-twisting them into new color combinations to then be woven into the tapestry. 

Chirpy Little Chap

A flowing organic, intertwining, fuzzy vessel made of needle felted natural MN alpaca fiber.

2020 In A Clamshell

A 3 dimensional representation of a tree trump, entirely crocheted using jute twine, and stuffed with twine.

Stump

A rounded box rimmed with white porcupine quills and decorated with colored porcupine quills that are in the shapes of flowers with leaves, stems and vines.

Waabigwanii-gitigaan (A Flower Garden)

A felt artwork with bright fluorescent hand cut abstract shapes in the center, surrounded by swirling needle felted shapes and background using muted colors and a softer focus.

Cosmic Pond

A red twined weaving reflective of a dancer. Made with cotton.

Dancer

Cartonnage Tea Mugs suggest a season of social gathering together in different forms or individual reflections at this time. Remnants were leftover patterned fabrics from making face masks.

Summer Camp Covid

A monster sculpture made of fabric. Neon green fuzzy body with a round skull, purple crystals for teeth and bug eyes. 

Bug Monster 

A reverent llama dressed in the traditional dress of his Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

Dalai Llama

A quilt of a cardinal in an showy mountain ash tree.  The thread-painted  cardinal is on a quilted background showing leaves and framed by the branches of the tree.

Cardinal on Mountain Ash

Silver framed, white/light blue matted, Hardanger Embroidery, stitched with soft blue threads on Ada cloth, the eight-pointed star is surrounded with a complimenting embroidered design of circles and points.

Framed Hardanger

Hand sewn knotted snake made out of iridescent turquoise and pink material. I added heart shaped pink eyes.

Snake

This is a series of heads with curly hair- all made out of sheep’s wool. Some of the wool is naturally curly. The wool was dyed in different colors and formed into the heads and hair. These are hanging on a pine tree trig to give it its three-dimensional form. 

Curly Heads

After

Digital image of vintage watchstraps with sterling silver watch faces as reminder to live in the moment. 
Two of an ongoing body work of Time Pieces by Camille Hempel. 

Time Pieces for Being Present 

A single twisted tree growing from the rocks on the edge of Lake Superior.

Tree by the Big Lake

A 3-dimensional wet-felted fish treated with many layers of Norwegian wool roving. A plastic resist was placed in the center of the shape about halfway through the felting process so that it could be cut to reveals the "insides" of the fish.

Felted Fantasy Fish

A small, three dimensional wall sculpture.  Digital embroidery in peach and light blue threads with 3 beads.  It appears to float off the wall.

Parallelogram

An orange fabric background with a pink concha embroidered in the middle, and the text "Conchas" above it and "not cops" below it, embroidered in black cursive. Each corner has a different succulent in a yellow pot with a pink stripe (green round one with pink flower in the top left, green and leafy in the top right, green tall standard cactus in the lower left, and blue cactus with pink flower buds on the bottom right). It is in a dark brown, almost black, frame against a white background.

Conchas Not Cops - for the Former Dulceria Bakery

Doubleweave line design with cotton yarn. Lines are in black with a multiple color background.  Dark, but also bright.

Look on the Bright Side

This piece was created by fulling teal blue wool by agitating it in hot water, then over dyeing it by first tightly wrapping a covering over it that allowed the original color to remain while the exposed sections had color removed, then dyeing in the rust color that forms the grid patterning.  The wood frame was painted copper with a border made of three strands of yarn, some with metallic and sequin highlights.

Tiles

A piece of fabric that has a repeating pattern of irregular oval shapes. The oval shapes are white and the background of the fabric is medium-dark, soft blue. The pattern is irregular and the blue color seeps into the white oval shapes on each shape. Along each rectangle's border, there are dotted lines. 

Resist 1

A pair of ladies black, soft shoes embellished with bright acrylic paint depicting comic book themes.

Best Foot Forward

An installation of a hand woven rainbow stretched out between two, red light stands near a window as sunlight comes through the blinds. 

Untitled (rainbow #1) light stands

A hat of hand stitched, hand molded cotton buckram with integrated wire foundation covered in silk velvet, nylon cording, fortune pleated satin, silk Dupioni fabric, glass beaded tassels, vintage brooches, sustainably sourced and recycled antique bird of paradise milliners feathers, cut crystal stone, 

Fortune Spirol

A sculpted bust of a veiled woman made from wool that looks like marble. The wind appears to be blowing the fabric against her face and the rest is billowing away from her. The veil reveals beneath the illusion of translucent folds half of her face is classicly beautiful and the other half is her skull. 

When The Veil Is Torn Away

Passion Flower

A peaceful lake view in autumn, created in fibers and fabric.

Fall Reflections

An abstract art quilt inspired by the rocks, sky, and sea of the black sand beach at Reynisdrangar, Iceland.

Determination , 2020

peggy dainty