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Friday, December 4, 2015

Time Passes Over the Earth

Time Passes Over The Earth    2015
silk rayon velvet, plant dyes, bamboo batt, backed with wool gauze, cotton and silk threads
hand pieced and hand  quilted
24.5" h x 20'5"w
What it FEELS like to live on Manitoulin Island.

Exhibition Record:
2016  My Corner of The World: Canada
          Stratford Perth Museum, Stratford Ontario, a SAQA exhibition (Studio Art Quilt Association).
          Michela Fitzsimmons; juror, Bethany Garner; co-ordinator
          Toured until 2018
2018  Available through David Kaye Gallery Toronto Ontario
2019  Beauty Emotion Spirit Soul exhibition at One Sky gallery, Sudbury month of April
2019  Available through Guildworks Bloomfield Ontario

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Canadian Pioneer

 Canadian Pioneer, 48" w x 64" h, re purposed wool blankets, wool fabrics, wool yarns

 hand pieced, slashed, mended, bundle-tied, felted, quilted
completely hand stitched

Exhibition History

Ontario Craft 2013 :  Ontario Craft Council Gallery   October 2013  Toronto, Ontario
International Design Show in the Ontario Craft Council booth, November 2013, Toronto, Ontario

Lucky Protection: Northern Art Gallery   solo exhibition at the northern art gallery (Artists on Elgin) February 1 - 28, 2014 Sudbury, Ontario

Quilts=Art=Quilts:  Juried into this exhibition by Kathleen Loomis and Valerie Goodwin
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center,  November 1 2014 - January 4 2015, Aurburn New York, USA
awarded first prize

The Perspective From Here  Thunder Bay Art Gallery  summer of 2017  an exhibition to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and includes 150 artists from North Western Ontario.  Thunder Bay Ontario Canada  June 23 - September 10, 2017 

Entered the permanent collection of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in mid November 2017.

The World We Know - a group exhibition (12 artists) of new acquisitions of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery - April - June 2022

Monday, December 24, 2012

Paradise is what lies beyond the horizon

 paradise is what lies beyond the horizon (one)  2012
 paradise is what lies beyond the horizon (two)  2012
 domestic linen, acrylic paint, thread, paper
domestic linen, found fabric, thread, paper

each measures 19" x 19" and are framed in shadowboxes under glass

exhibition record
2012:  summer season at the Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay, Manitoulin Island Ontario
2013:  winter season at the Art Gallery of Sudbury art rental, Sudbury Ontario
2014:  February.  Both pieces were part of the Lucky Protection exhibition at the Northern Artist Gallery, Sudbury, Ontario.
2014:  spring.  Paradise Meditation I was part of the juried exhibition, Convergence, in the Tom Thomson gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
2015   in David Kaye gallery, Toronto
2018:  in One Sky Gallery, Sudbury Ontario
2019:  both pieces included in Beauty Emotion Spirit Soul at One Sky Gallery
2019:  Paradise Meditation II donated to Thunder Bay Art Gallery Auction
2019:  Paradise Meditation I  sold through Guildworks, Bloomfield Ontario