Muse Gallery
A gallery, teaching, and creative space that highlights local artists and uplifts the arts as a way of life!
WHAT'S ON VIEW
Soft Vase
October 3rd - November 28th 2025
‘The opportunity to exhibit with my daughter Madeline, is something made of a dream I never
imagined. I feel very grateful’.
Kaidy works out of two studios located in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. Born in
the UK, the artist attended art college in London and refined a process of abstract
expressionism whereby she brings to the canvas a feeling, a subject or current affair she
experiences as making no sense. The conversation with paint is a subjective, exploratory and
an investigative process. Her paintings are multi-layered and complex; they are a synthesis of
inanimate objects and ambiguous figures, within aesthetics of beauty, color, rhythm and design.
This semi abstract visual art is an endeavor of the artist to deconstruct chaos into compassion
that touches the viewer and makes for a connection. Hints are embedded into the canvas in
the hope that the conversation in paint quietens the ego and softens the noise of the world. The
artist sees her practice as a health regimen that can create confidence, community and joy.
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Recent Art Exhibitions
Society of Women Artists - Summer 2025 Juried Art Show - Mall Galleries London
Hillsborough Gallery of Art - ‘So Much Color’ - June 25
Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro ‘Winter Show’ - Dec 24
CAM, Raleigh September - NCartists - Sep - 24
Block Gallery, Raleigh - The Municipal Building - 2019
I create textile-based works that explore the intimate relationships between body, material,
and meaning. Grounded in tactile engagement and shaped by a deep sensitivity to softness,
repetition, and transformation, my practice reflects on the labor of care and the nuanced
power of feminine expression. Through stitching, weaving, wrapping, and layering, I examine
how the body is both a singular presence and a collective form—independent yet
fragmented, held together by the threads of memory, emotion, and physicality.
Textiles speak to me in a language of weight, rhythm, and touch. Their structural qualities
mirror the complexities of embodiment: the capacity to hold, cradle, support, and shape. The
process of working with cloth—its pliability, its responsiveness—becomes a metaphor for
relationship. I am continually drawn to the tension between openness and restraint, softness
and strength. These dualities are central to my work, which aims to elevate the quiet,
powerful labor of living.
Much of my material practice is intuitive. I respond to found objects and salvaged
textiles—scraps, remnants, discarded clothing—as though they carry stories waiting to be
revealed. What guides me is not efficiency, but connection: the sense that each piece of
fabric, each gesture of the hand, contributes to something deeply felt. I treat materials not as
blank surfaces but as collaborators, already imbued with form, energy, and potential.
For me, making is not just a technical process—it is emotional and relational. I am interested
in how our interactions with materials mirror our ways of relating to each other: Did we offer
care? Did we allow space? Did we impose control or practice tenderness?
Through textiles, I seek to build spaces—physical, emotional, and conceptual—that hold
complexity, honor softness, and trace the unseen labor of becoming. My work is ultimately
about presence: how we feel, how we hold, and how we are held.
