Galatea Fine Art
  • Home
  • Gallery Artists
  • Exhibitions
    • Current & Upcoming
    • Past
    • Solo Preview Videos
    • Curated Virtual Exhibits >
      • Songs of Innocence
      • Songs of Experience
      • Visions of Paradise
      • Glory Upon Awakening
  • Editorial
    • Press
    • Blog
    • Newsletters >
      • Edition 10
      • Edition 9
      • Edition 8
      • Edition 7
      • Edition 6
      • Edition 5
      • Edition 4
      • Edition 3
      • Edition 2
      • Edition 1
  • Curator’s Platform
  • Contact
    • Becoming a Member
Diane Cadrain
Boat Meadow Creek, Jacquard Lumiere paints on cotton, 30 x 40 Inch
Fence Creek, Jacquard Lumiere paints on cotton, 20 x 20 Inch
Mushroom Barn at Auer Farm, wool roving and embroidery, 16 x 30 Inch
On the John Day River, Jacquard Lumiere paints on cotton, 24 x 20 Inch
Sand Ripples with Golden Pebbles, wool roving and embroidery, 12 x 12 Inch
Sundown Dazzle II, Jacquard Lumiere paints on cotton, 30 x 30 Inch
Artist Statement:
The natural world inspires my work by offering constantly-refreshed images of arresting loveliness.  Tolstoy said, “Love all creation…love every leaf.”  In that spirit, I create images that combine fragility with strength and the evanescent with the eternal.  The evanescent and the eternal appear, for example, in the sand ripples left by the departing water at low tide.  Those ripples are always different, yet eternally the same.
 
My fiber art work focuses primarily on landscape, and encompasses two principal types of media, quilting and felting.   The quilted creations are painted on cotton, then embellished with thread painting, backed with batting and backing, and finally quilted.  The quilting adds dimensionality to the work.  The felted pieces are created by deploying a material called wool roving as if it were paint.  I then enhance this tactile and textured medium with hand embroidery.  
​
Artist Bio:
In 2015 I retired from freelance work as a lawyer and writer specializing in employment law topics, but I’ve been sewing all my life, starting with hand embroidery and pin weaving as taught by my grandmother at our home in Hamden, CT.  I learned machine sewing in the Hamden public schools, and with that skill, I proceeded to construct my own clothes and costumes.  As a law student, I learned to knit, and later, in my early 30s, as a new mother, I began quilting.  I took up felting in my 50s. My fiber art work now includes hand-painted fabric, thread painting, felting, knitted embellishments, hand embroidery, and beading.
​
www.diane-cadrain.com
Picture
460B Harrison Ave, #B-6 | Boston, MA 02118 | 617-542-1500
Gallery Hours: Thu
-Sun, Mar-Oct, 12-5pm; Nov-Feb, 12-4 pm, and by appointment​

Join Our Mailing List
Follow Galatea Fine Art on Artsy
Picture
Picture

Artists Login
  • Home
  • Gallery Artists
  • Exhibitions
    • Current & Upcoming
    • Past
    • Solo Preview Videos
    • Curated Virtual Exhibits >
      • Songs of Innocence
      • Songs of Experience
      • Visions of Paradise
      • Glory Upon Awakening
  • Editorial
    • Press
    • Blog
    • Newsletters >
      • Edition 10
      • Edition 9
      • Edition 8
      • Edition 7
      • Edition 6
      • Edition 5
      • Edition 4
      • Edition 3
      • Edition 2
      • Edition 1
  • Curator’s Platform
  • Contact
    • Becoming a Member