Ann Hord-Heatherley, figurative art at Out In Jupiter Farm – map #17

Fiber, Mixed Media

My figures are designed to express human emotion. They are rooted in my experience of growing up in the rural South and shaped further by my life now, living and working on a small farm in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. My work depicts women as they go about their daily lives working in their homes, tending farms, or just deep in thought.

My figures are sewn. I dye most of my own fabrics, often using botanical dyes. The faces are cloth over sculpted clay. Hair is created with mohair locks from my own goats. It's always enchanting to see a little soul emerge from a pile of raw materials.

Ann Hord-Heatherley

August 16, 2017

I create figures from cloth. My goal is to capture emotion in each piece. The costuming of my figures is simple, and intended to capture a sense of time and place. I often find inspiration in vintage photographs of women and children of the American South. I hand dye most of my fabrics, often using […]