About Cindy Watkins (The Textile Artist)
The Textile Artist
Cindy has won many awards for her textile artwork both in Australia and over seas. Cindy's work has been published in magazines in Australia, New Zealand and America. Her work hangs in private collections throughout Australia and Internationally. The natural world is her inspiration especially Tasmanian flora and fauna.
Cindy uses her sewing machine to create her artwork. She fee-style stitches each piece to create unique and beautiful pieces. Silk and cotton are her preferred materials which are often hand dyed by Cindy using leaves and bark found in the natural bush areas of Tasmania.
The 5000 Trees Project
Trees are an integral part of our world. They provide for us the air we breath, the homes we live in, they create rain, provide food, shelter and nutrients for many forms of life, warm our homes and they are a thing of beauty. Science has now proven they communicate, nurture, defend and support each other through their root systems. They have symbiotic relationships with fungi, birds, insects and animals. They are part of a very complex system quiet often hidden from the human eye.
The Tree of Life appears and many religions all over the world. Early civilisation understood their significance even without our science.
The 5000 trees project was inspired by the book "The Hidden Life of Trees" By Peter Wohlleben. Cindy has set herself a goal to stitch 5000 Trees exploring the amazing and complex life of trees.
As part of this ambitious project Cindy wanted to give back to the environment, so she choose to donate $2.00 to Landcare Tasmania for every tree she stitches and sells to help with there local environmental projects.
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“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” - John Muir