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

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

pioneer babies

Pioneer  Babies, vintage domestic linens wrapped and then stitched around cut spring branches to make bundles

all have been embroidered with red silk thread

 some are wrapped with cotton tape

sizes variable,  8 inches in height to 16 inches in height.  Five shown (eight have been made)
most are filled with flowering pussy willow or forsythia branches

One has been exhibited. The one on the extreme right was reworked and included in the Lucky Protection exhibit, Feb 1 - 28 2014, (solo) at The Northern Artist Gallery (organized by Artists on Elgin) in Sudbury, Ontario.

starry night

 40" x 46". plant dyed silk and silk wool blend 

shibori markings with hawthorne and walnut

hand embroidery and quilting

exhibition record

until January 6 2013:  Auburn, New York
                                 Schweinfurth Art Center
                                 Quilts=Art=Quilts  (sold into private collection)

Monumental Simplicity

 nine feet square, plant dyed wool/silk blend

 hand stitched with naturally dyed silk threads

upper half dyed with willow, lower half dyed with cone flowers and iron

exhibition record

June 2012:  London, England, Middlesex University BA hons embroidered textile degree exhibition
November 2012: Oakville, Canada, World of Threads festival, with Continuum
February 2013, Germany, Continuum, independent exhibition

April 2019, Beauty, Emotion, Spirit, Soul - solo exhibition at One Sky Gallery in Sudbury Ontario