An exploration in texture.

Canadian artist Allyson Siobhan Green explores the restorative power of artistic practice through tactile engagement with raw materials. By creating textiles—from unspun wool, silk, and bamboo into felt—she crafts evocative pieces that mirror her emotional landscape. Her work draws poetic parallels between the vastness of the Canadian wilderness and the contours of her inner world, using texture, colour, and technical innovation to build a visual language of self-discovery.

Themes of solitude, transformation, and personal power run through Allyson’s work. Her felt-based “paintings,” often adorned with habotai silk, glass beads, and other found elements, emerge from a deep dialogue with nature. Nostalgia is woven into the many of her pieces through upcycled elements—storm windows, quilting hoops, and other found objects—reframing memory as a vessel for meaning and emotional resonance.

Inspired by the elemental forces of trees, stone, fire, and water, Allyson channels the raw energy of the elements into compositions that reflect both what she sees and what she feels. This process becomes a meditation on perception—interrogating the interplay between sight, gaze, standpoint, and the ways living beings shape and are shaped by their environments.