Carola van Dyke is a contemporary fibre artist, and she creates detailed wall-hangings and sculptures made with tiny individual floating stitches, with colour as her driving force. 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. Her work is also associated with the growing awareness of the environment, the need for preservation.
This dramatic, curious approach represents nature in a vulnerable and lace-like manner, with the hanging treads creating movement when walking past, giving the work continuous life and energy. She wishes to achieve a delicate result with fine threads by pushing the boundaries of embroidery, bringing a more refined and unexpected outcome. She is intrigued by the relationship between fragile and rough, hand and machine, traditional and modern; through this interplay, her artworks unite craft and decorative fine art.
Natural and organic forms are always at the heart of her work, the magic found in small details: insects, wings, flowers, plants, roots and their connections. Beauty has always been important in her work, and she takes inspiration from her Dutch heritage, particularly 17th & 18th century still life paintings, embracing the exuberance, the melodrama, the lush colours, and she analyses these historic sources through a modern lens.
Before embracing the embroidery art, her Textile Taxidermy have been part of the interior scene for the last decade and have sold worldwide. Her extensive international client list includes Liberty London, Bergdorf Goodman NY, , Knoll Textiles, Joseph Abboud, Anthropologie to name a few, as well as many private collectors and international celebrity.
Carola is a member of Design Nation, Homo Faber, the Craft Council, and the Society of Designer Craftsmen
Carola van Dyke is based on the south coast of the UK.
Bespoke commissions, private and commercial, taken.
