Carola van Dyke is a contemporary textile artist, and creates free-motion embroidered artwork, which she uses to explore her fascination with colours, textures, layers and light. Her work is about the balance between the ephemeral and the permanent. It observes how to replicate nature with thread, both in bloom and decayed and is also associated with the growing awareness of the environment, the need for preservation. Her work is inspired by the relationship between fragile and rough, hand and machine, traditional and modern; through this interplay, her artworks unite craft and decorative fine art.
She creates wall hangings and sculptures with floating tiny individual stitches, where colour is the driving force. The embroidery artwork is made with thread and have a dramatic, curious quality and represent nature in a rough and vulnerable manner. She wishes to achieve a delicate result with fine threads by pushing the boundaries of embroidery, bringing a more refined and unexpected outcome.
Natural and organic forms are always at the heart of her work: insects, wings, flowers & plants and their preservation. Beauty has always been important in her work, and she is fascinated with the exuberance of Dutch 17th century vanitas and still life paintings.
For the past decade her Textile Taxidermy has been part of the British interior scene and have sold worldwide. Her extensive international client list includes Anthropologie US, Knoll Textiles, Joseph Abboud, Bergdorf Goodman and Liberty London to name a few, as well as many private collectors and international celebrity.
Carola van Dyke studio is based on the south coast of the UK and focusses on designing the more unique and one of a kind art pieces for galleries, private residencies and the hospitality industry.
Bespoke commissions, private and commercial, taken.
