Welcome to my world of hand-dyed art on silk
Feel soothed by my contemplative works
Delight in my playful pieces
About the Artist
Hi, I’m Salley Knight. I’m a fine artist who has worked on silk as my medium for over 50 years. I use traditional Japanese techniques to prepare the silk to ensure vibrancy and longevity.
My art reflects the beautiful surroundings of Squam Lake, NH, my childhood in Virginia, as well as my whimsical sensibility.
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snowing again/dyeing again
It’s snowing again. Endlessly. I’m dying again. Or is that dyeing again? I haven’t dyed silk in three years, I believe. I’ve been using fragments from previously dyed silk to see: what can I do with this? I played with single color coils of the more translucent silk. Then I
imagine!
It’s at this time of year – in the dead of winter, buried by snow – that my children start talking about summer. They start formulating plans about when to come. The first mention I heard was June. June? Will the lake even be unfrozen by then? This is my
separate worlds
Some things you like to talk about. Other things, not so much. I would say Lyme lands in the second category. But as a child, I was used to these two categories. Not for uncomfortable diseases, but for “society”. My father was from the south. Southern women did not run
