"Prickly Pastel"
Silk Batik
Feb. 2019
13.5" x 71.5"

About the Piece

A series of prickly pears pads hand-drawn by the artist in a batik on silk. Batik is a wax-resist technique used to create patterns. In this scarf, the artist used hand-mixed dyes and wax to draw overlapping cactus pads on a jacquard pattern in silk.

About the Artist

Angela Dye, FASLA, is a licensed landscape architect in Arizona and Colorado, with an M.L.A. and a master's degree in community development and planning from the University of Colorado, Denver. She founded A DYE DESIGN in 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona, as an urban design/planning/landscape architecture firm. The firm has resided in Telluride, Colorado, since 2010, where she has diversified her practice to residential design and the visual arts. She is a past president (2008-2009) of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is currently the chairperson of the Town of Telluride Open Space Commission, a member of the Town Planning and Zoning Commission, and the San Miguel County Open Space Commission. She also volunteers as a DJ for KOTO, Telluride's community radio, as Lady Dye. She does her visual artwork through the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride.