Somatic Textile Artist & Meditation Facilitator
Presence · Process · Nature · Listening · Slowness · Intuition
About
I’m Melba Aros — a somatic textile artist and meditation facilitator, and a mother of two, based in Western Australia.
I work with silk, natural fibres, and found fabrics, using water, plant dyes, and gentle pigments to let cloth move, breathe, and slowly become itself. Some pieces are born through quiet washes of colour, others through the rhythm of my body in motion.
Everything I make grows from a place of listening — where fabric, time, and touch meet.
These are cloths to live with, to wear, and to rest with.
Where art becomes meditation.
Field of Cloths
This is where my textiles begin — in a slow, open field of colour, movement, and cloth.
I work through listening, letting breath, water, and touch guide the process. Marks may arrive as sweeping lines of sustainable pigment, or as soft blooms of natural dye carried by water and gravity.
Silk, cotton, and found fabrics hold memory.
They respond to the body.
They shift with time.
Some Field Cloths are made to hang in space.
Some are made to be worn.
All of them hold a living field — a place where stillness, emotion, and creative energy can gently find their own balance.
From the Studio
This is where my Field Cloths are born — through movement, pigment, water, and quiet listening.
In my studio, silk is soaked, walked with, lifted, and left to rest.
Natural dyes and sustainable paints are allowed to travel through fabric, guided by gravity, breath, and time.
Nothing is rushed.
Nothing is forced.
Some days are full of colour and motion.
Others are still, with cloth simply hanging in the light, waiting.
Each piece carries the memory of how it was made — the pauses, the gestures, the weather, the mood of the day.
This is not a production space.
It is a place of attention.
