Lorraine Roy: Textile Art

2021

28x11" fabric wall hanging

This piece was created for the exhibition "PoARTry: A Dance of Poetry and Art", a group show of various art media inspired by particular poems chosen from the works of the Tower Poets Society of Hamilton, ON, to honour their 70th anniversary. Please go to my Events page for location and dates.

This piece is available to purchase from Carnegie Gallery, from June 4 to July 4, 2021, after which you are welcome to contact me directly with inquiries.

Inspired by the following poem:

Anticipation
by Gertrude Olga Down

Between the passion and the promise
of a stirring spring,
in the cool of an afternoon
with sharp winds waking,
an indifferent road glides past
the apple orchard –
where squat bodies lie wholly exposed,
trim rows upon rows,
pristine palette of perfection;
arms stiff from pruning
welcome the sun's beneficence.

But, there, in the midst
of the imposed conformity,
one lone untamed tree
feverish with buds – plump, prescient,
heavy with waiting.