Feather Necklace – Red and Blue Cotton Threads

Red and blue cotton thread feathers, with metallic silver thread details, alternate with metal pendants. The chain is “snail” ribbon which was space-dyed in variegated bluish tones.

18-inch length

Silver plate hook closure

Eileen Doughty of Doughty Designs

I love the concept of “place” and so my preferred subject matter is the landscape. My career in cartography has been useful in designing my fiber art, since designing maps also relies on understanding how people view and interpret colors and symbols. Currently my work focuses on exploring what makes fiber art so unique: texture, freedom of shape of the “canvas” and employing three rather than two dimensions.

My goal is to portray our environment as a thing of inherent beauty, be it a mountain vista, a city park, the life underground and unseen in the forest, the flowing water in a small neighborhood stream, or the living cells in an oak tree trunk.  My artwork is designed to have something for the viewer to enjoy both from a distance and close up.