Marianne DuBois,
duBois deRoche and Arcady Designs
Marianne has been interested in rocks and landforms since childhood. This was expressed by playing “hydrologic engineer” in puddles, collecting natural objects, and gluing her nose to airplane windows to see the vistas below. Early inspiration also came from her mother who was an artist and inspired teacher.
Training in geology added new dimensions- honing her eye for detail, and teaching the precise execution required of a scientist. The textile courses she has taken enable her to express the beauty seen during the course of her geology career. Now these characteristics combine in her textiles to create designs with flow, balance and harmony.
Marianne’s designs reflect the beauty in the textures and vistas of nature. Texture, shape, and color are revealed at many different scales, from the detail of a crystalline rock only millimeters thick, to flow structures in river sandbars after a flash flood, to kilometer-long currents flowing in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Technical control of a textile allows collaboration between the fabric and the garment. Marianne’s inventive use of drape, hand, texture, color, and construction produces unique garments. Beautiful silk and cotton fabrics are the foundation of her designs. English, Australian, New Zealand wools are incorporated into each design, and luxurious fibers such as cashmere, alpaca, and quivit are often used as well.
Marianne finds that life provides an inexhaustible book of stories that can be illustrated with her felt designs.
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