Meet the Hooking Colonel

Charlie Dalton is a fiber artist following a few simple rules as needed.  He uses a traditional rug hook and pulls fabric strips through a linen backing.  With his background being in education, the passing down of the traditions that were and still are being taught to him by his mother-in-law is an integral part of what he does.  Another cornerstone in his process is the idea of upcycling discarded clothing.  This makes his use of color a struggle finding the right values and shades “off the rack”. He supplements that pile using dyes and/or other techniques creating his own palettes. 

His abstractions find their origins in nature.  He is interested in invoking emotion through the slow movement of color throughout my pieces.  Circles and squares in tandem with line and perspective are the verbs and nouns that he uses to hook his sketchbook brainstorms.