Remember, I’m With The Cosmos
February 2025 Durham Art Guild Gallery
“Remember, I’m With The Cosmos” features paintings and naturally dyed fabric depicting farmscapes that Antonia Brown created during her six month Artist in Residence with the Durham Art Guild.
In these pieces, the artist grapples with her connection to agriculture and continues, uninhibitedly, to choose the path of tenderness, community and reverence. Her focus lies in the little moments of breath, beauty and serenity she holds tight to while farming. This collection of paintings acts like a journal for the artist and this exhibition seeks to bring those little moments of presence and daily acts of sacredness into the gallery.
Natural Dye
During this residency, the artist experimented with natural dyes derived from farm materials to add warmth and texture to the canvas. The vibrancy of the dyed cotton and linen fostered a minimal design to allow the material to shine. These materials invite the viewer further into the agricultural world by surrounding them with crop dyed cloth. Dye techniques used were bundle dye and batch dye with marigold petals, yellow onion skins, eucalyptus leaves, pokeberry and avocado pits.
