Beverly Moxon

Beverly Moxon comes from a family of makers. Her mother and grandmother were dressmakers and whilst she valued their talent of turning fabric into something beautiful to wear, her interest is in nature and she uses her skills to express what she sees around her.

Beverly grew up playing in the pinewoods behind her home in a small rural town in North Carolina. Those early experiences enriched her life and have influenced the way she thinks about the natural world.

Beverly's work is most often about place, which for her is synonymous with my home. She has lived in beautiful places from the Blue Mountains of NSW to the coastal bays of Tasmania. Now, living in country NSW she finds the diversity of Australia’s landscapes a continual source of inspiration for her art.

Where she lives, fields of yellow canola, golden wheat before harvest and the beautiful green of new crops contrasting with the red brown earth, provide her with a wonderful palette of colours. She uses many different materials in her art but her textile background always seems to bring her back to working with fabrics and fibres.

She likes to dye her own fabrics with Eucalyptus dyes sourced from the surrounding landscape. She uses various techniques such as shibori, rusting and printing to transfer the colours and marks of the terrain onto my materials.

When working with fibre she gathers native grasses and various other fibres from the local area and often include pine needles in my work reminding me of my grass roots in North Carolina.