Name A Garden Moment Medium Quilted fibre and Mixed Media Description This is one of a series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  In this series I combined my background in quilt art with my love of texture.  Is this assemblage  ’embellished quilt art’ or mixed media with quilted components? Circa 2008 Size 15″ x 12″ Exhibitions 2008 – Story Pictures, Read’s Book Store, Carleton...

Name Serenity Medium Quilted fibre and Mixed Media Description This is one of a series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  In this series I combined my background in quilt art with my love of texture.  In each of the pieces in this series I have used new techniques to capture the mood.  In this one, shiva has been used to create the fabric designs. Circa 2008 Size 15″ x 12″ Exhibitions 2008...

    Name Oriental Moment Medium Quilted fibre and Mixed Media Assemblage Description This is one of a series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  In this series I combined my background in quilt art with my love of texture.  I am often inspired by the ‘stuff’ I collect or ‘find’.  The challenge is to find items in proportion to the size of the finished piece and in this...

  Name Tangled Garden Revisited Medium Quilt / Fibre Art Description (from proposal to our first show) ‘Frayed Edges’ is a community of artists who share a passion for creating with fibre which I helped to establish.  These contemporary artists live within a 100 km radius of Almonte, ON and meet monthly to share new ideas and techniques, to encourage and support each other and to seek opportunities to exhibit their work as a group.  The...

    Name Memory Quilt for Dave and Lisa’s Wedding Medium Quilt Art Description This memory quilt was created as a surprise for my son and his wife on their wedding day. It was hung by members of the wedding party so that it would be at the reception when they returned from their picture session and gave the guests, while they were waiting for the reception program to begin, a glimpse into the couple’s joint history.  Each...

I’m finally over my creative block – my fear of beginning .  I’ve got two potential exhibition pieces planned and deadlines looming and I’ve been finding all sorts of reasons to avoid actually starting! The project I’m focusing on first is based on the photo above taken in an ancient forest in BC in 2011.  It will involve a lot of different techniques and was started in the fall when I experimented with paper...

For a change of pace I’m going to share some of the photos that I looked at when starting this project.  The finished piece will be 18″x45″ so the shape of the piece will be a challenge in itself. This piece will be an entry into a FAN (Fibre Art Network) exhibition in 2013  entitled Abstracted.  This show requires artists to work with a partner, one artist develops a representative art piece and the other develops an...

    This was a month for experimentation, adding new people and organizations to my network and to time to get serious about some artwork.  One of my project this month was to explore the possibilities offered by paper fabric and to get ready to lead a workshop on the technique early next month. One of my samples is featured in my October journal quilt. This journal quilt incorporates paper cloth – a technique that has been on...

  This month’s journal quilt is ‘busy’ but more joyful reflecting, I hope, a turn in the course of events.  Can you find the ‘C’s’ encircling the centre of the piece? Inspiration September proved to be a busy month.  For me it was an introduction into full-time life in Calgary, a first-time for living in a city environment.  It was a month of continued, but lessening, worry about family health issues balanced...

This time I chose to use another of my ‘recycled’ fabrics for my August journal quilt.  I pulled out a piece of ‘fabric’ created from fused shopping bags and created my artist trading cards for the FAN retreat in September and some ‘inchies’ and squares that are incorporated into this piece.  Nothing goes to waste! My Inspiration August proved to be another crazy month!  I chose ‘T’ for a number...