I am an internationally exhibiting, award-winning modern textile artist, working under Studio Dundas, known for an improvisational, embodied approach to quilting that prioritizes rhythm, intuition, and presence over pattern or rules.

My work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and is held in both public and private collections. I am represented by Galería de las Misiones in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay and the Textile Art Gallery in New York City. My work is in Color Improvisation 3, a touring, curated exhibition led by Nancy Crow.

I maintain studios in Canada and Uruguay, where my practice continues to evolve at the intersection of art, embodiment, and biology.

Alongside my work as an artist, I am also Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFP, a physician specializing in longevity, functional, and I ntegrative medicine, and the founder of Sublime Life—a multidisciplinary wellness ecosystem integrating medicine, nature, creativity, and experiential healing.

My retreats and creative intensives draw on:

• over two decades of clinical medical practice

• nervous-system–informed longevity medicine

• somatic and presence-based practices

• and my certification and clinical experience in equine-assisted therapy

This retreat reflects the convergence of these worlds.

I don’t teach quilting as a technical discipline alone.

I teach how voice emerges when the body feels safe, regulated, and free enough to listen.

My role is not to shape your work—but to help you access your own way of working, without being held captive by inherited rules, perfectionism, or expectation.

Who This Retreat Is For

All levels welcome.

This experience is intentionally designed to meet you exactly where you are:

• Those curious about beginning—learning to sew or quilt and inviting creative practice into daily life

• Experienced and professional artists ready to loosen control, deepen embodiment, and refine voice

Many participants arrive technically skilled—but creatively constrained.

Here, we gently unlearn habits that mute expression and explore how intuition, repetition, and sensation can lead the work—without chaos or overwhelm.

Finding Your Voice (Without Being Held Captive by Rules)

Traditional instruction often prioritizes correctness.

This retreat prioritizes coherence.

You’ll learn:

• how to break rules without losing integrity

• how to work intuitively without losing structure

• how constraint can become freedom

• how sensation and instinct translate into form

I share the techniques, prompts, and quiet studio “tricks” I use myself—not as formulas, but as doorways you can return to again and again.

This is not about copying my style.

It’s about understanding how voice emerges, so you can access yours.

The Creative Structure (What You’ll Make)

• Final piece: one 40 × 40 textile artwork

• Constructed from: four 20 × 20 panels

• Each panel corresponds to Days 1–4

• Day 5: integration, assembly, reflection, and presentation

No perfection.

No finishing pressure.

The work is a record of process—not performance.