Welcome to my Online Portfolio,

I am a Franco-American artist born in Abington, Pennsylvania in 1961.  I share my time between a charming village in the Loire Valley and Swans Island, a Small Island off the coast of Acadia in New England.  My initial studies were in painting but after several years, I found the medium stifled my creativity.  I eventually turned to textile sculpture, focusing on materials as my inspiration.  It restored joy in my artmaking process.

Living in a frenetic society riddled with high technology that favors impersonalization, with great tenacity, I remain loyal to the handmade process, celebrating the beauty of human imperfections.

Textiles and fabric have continued to be an important part of my work and I endeavor to redefine and modernize our foremother’s techniques, so called, «traditional handicraft »; embroidery, needlepoint, knitting, fabrication of handmade lace… Traditional techniques, « Women’s  handicraft » have always been relegated to a lesser position in the hierarchy of Arts.  I recycle our ancestor’s methods, reassembling, modifying, and expanding  their purpose, propelling them into the contemporary art scene ;  a quest to redefine the delicate frontier between fine art and traditional art.

These ephemeral textile environments, formed of discrete fabric memories, each handstitched together, create reflections of communities past.   The suspended sculptures poetically respond to the space they inhabit, immersing the viewer into an architectural environment where the definition of interior and exterior become blurred : Nurturing or suffocating.  When I conceive a work of art, I am sensitive about leaving only a light footprint on nature, like a memory.   I have been collecting family heirloom lace and clothing for years and have a passion for anything fabricated with love ; history laden objects ; sensuality.  Gloves, for example, beautifully fashionned were once donned for rituals as divergent as weddings, baptisms, funerals…  Symbols impregnated with  specific memories.   By connecting the different textile heirloom éléments together one by one, I reassemble, repair, and preserve  a human trace, emphasizing human connections and interactions.  Besides,  a  woman’s life   is but  fragments  of stolen time.

Thank you for taking the time to peruse my work.

Pamela A. Moulton