Discover Port Townsend.com is pleased to present our Featured Artist, Carolyn Doe!

Artist Statement

I am mostly a self-taught artist which only means I play until I figured something out. My on-going education in art takes place through my own passion and pleasure in the exploration of certain creative processes. I started working in batik on silk fabric over twenty-seven years ago. Batik has become my voice. When dye touches silk fabric it spreads like crazy. The wax creates a boundary. It is this dance of control/no control that captivates me for hours. Through this ethereal quality, I try to convey the essence of a place and of the creatures and plants that dwell there.

My inspiration comes mostly from the natural landscape. My work as a field camp manager and cook around the state of Alaska allows me to experience wonderful, wild and remote places. I have been as far south as Antarctica as well. Like the cold, the beauty of Antarcticaʼs changing light cuts deep to the bone. Hours spent observing, then I go indoors and create.

I like the movement of birds. They sometimes fly into my work. I like the quiet of trees. They too, sometimes enter my paintings. And I love the stillness of the land.

I currently have work in galleries and private collections all over the US, as well as in several countries around the world, including Antarctica.                                        

                                                                                                                      Carolyn Doe

Carolyn’s work may be seen at Gallery 9 in Port Townsend as well as the real estate office of Miller and Ashmore.

For further info check out www.carolyndoe.com