{"id":47519,"date":"2018-04-19T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=47519"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:44:45","slug":"living-in-colour-meet-jason-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/living-in-colour-meet-jason-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in colour: Meet Jason Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every two weeks, I will be profiling an extraordinary human being who lives in our community. If you know someone who is doing something interesting with their life or has an inspiring story to share, I want to hear about it. Send me an email at <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>laura.maclean@doppleronline.ca<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There’s nothing black and white about Jason Martin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love colour,\u201d says the eccentric Huntsville native.<\/p>\n

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And the proof is in the pudding. Jason is a master at the art of tie-dyeing. It’s something he’s been doing since he was just a kid. It was a way to kill time when he had all the time in the world and now it’s ignited into a full-blown passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember being on my parents’ deck with buckets of cheap dye from the Dominion Store. We didn’t have YouTube back then. We were just experimenting with making a mess and it turned out interesting. I never stopped messing around with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason is 46 now and he’s no longer experimenting with making a mess. His level of skill and the quality of his handmade creations are nothing short of breath-taking.<\/p>\n

He creates the bold and the beautiful and that has garnered the attention of people from all walks of life. Because, really, you’re never too old or too young to rock some serious colour. Jason can’t help but smile when he talks about the pair of socks he made for his oldest customer. She was 101.<\/p>\n

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Jason’s got the brains and the inner flame. He’s created some epic one-of-a-kind pieces.<\/p><\/div>\n

The thing about tie-dyeing is that it’s always blowing my mind. The colours mix differently and the patterns are always interesting. It’s multicolour, it’s multidimensional… you can never do the same thing in a tie or a compression and you never have variables that are the same and I think that’s awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the years of twisting and turning and tying and folding and compressing, Jason has become an expert (although he humbly declines the title of an expert because he says he’s forever learning). Different techniques yield different results. There isn’t a style he hasn’t tried nor an item he hasn’t tie-dyed. He’s made everything from pants and t-shirts to underwear and socks; onesies for babies to yoga pants and one-piece jumpers; curtains, bedsheets and pillowcases to altar cloths and recyclable bags.<\/p>\n\n\t\t