The annual Vancouver Island Surface Design Association Currents Threads exhibition will open on April 15 and run until April 30, 2017. This year the group is returning to the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith. All of the work will have been completed in the last 3 years and has not been shown in any Current Threads exhibition before. […]
Read More...Working with slippery synthetic sheers I can’t keep the large pieces of fabric under control. Solution – hang them on the wall and take down as needed. My current problem is to find a method for making a soft material appear hard. I have made tapered tubes. They need weights in the bottom to keep […]
Read More...Laura Feeleus ‘Heartfelt’ VISDA’s annual exhibition is on at CACSP’s Tulista Gallery in Sidney. Works by Lori Mudrie, Terry Phillips, Donna-Fay Digance The exhibition is on until Sunday 4:00 pm July 31st. Works by Barb McCaffery, Margie Preninger There will be an Artists’ Reception on Saturday 2 to 4 pm July 23rd. Works by Bryony […]
Read More...The Mark Makers are exhibiting again! Here is a peek at what they have produced over the past couple of years. This is the view as one walks into the gallery – wearable art and 2D and 3D wet felt. To the right are the results of a challenge to produce interpretations of the Melford […]
Read More...After working its way from Newfoundland and across Canada to places in between, the ‘Edge of the Forest’ exhibition has arrived on the west coast. Actually, the 54 works in 2 shipping crates arrived on the island a month or so ago and I have kept them in storage until today when they were loaded […]
Read More...Current Threads 2015: Garden Tapestry has been installed at South Shore Gallery, Sooke. Here is the view as you walk into the Back Gallery. The back wall The lights haven’t been adjusted yet but it was time to leave after spending all day installing the work. The artists worked with the size restriction of 12″ […]
Read More...‘Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters’ is open in the Frazee Gallery in the Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick. This is one of 5 galleries in the building and what a beautiful building. ReBecca Paterson, who lives in New Brunswick, was responsible for getting the exhibit into this beautiful space and she has done all of […]
Read More...Naiomi Wanjiku Gakunga standing in front of her work in the Russell Hill Rogers Gallery on the Navarro Campus, after giving a moving presentation about her life as an artist and the importance of storytelling in her culture and her work. In the same gallery Michael James had a solo exhibition,’Organising Nature`.This work is titled […]
Read More...The 2nd post card in the series is about the French who settled in the Bay of Fundy at various times from the early 17th century until the mid 18th century.I visited a reconstructed French fort, Port-Royal, a national historic site, to find out what sort of houses were built and what textiles were used. […]
Read More...Maggie Tchir, Kathleen Hill, Earth Nest Merino & Romney wools, barley seed, maple branches. Kerstin Bennier, sitz.kugel – white, hand made merino wool felt, cotton fabric. Catherine Dormor, Shimmer, digitally printed silk organza, silk satin. This was my favourite exhibition of the festival. Each work was so quietly powerful.The Winter 2013 edition of Fiber Art Now also has an article […]
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