For the past 2 years, Sarah McLaren and I have been producing bodies of work based on how we feel about specific colours. I have produced 24 works, each one exploring the energy I feel from a specific colour. Sarah has explored each colour through the works of one of her favourite artists. Here is her ‘Modigliani in […]
Read More...During a Mark Makers’ summer residency at the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) website we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and have a dyeing day outside. We set up tables and brought out buckets of water to the backyard of the school. I set up my sophisticated system for working with dye powder […]
Read More...Gathering at the Edge committee members woman the registration desk in the Holiday Inn Express & Suites lobby. Barbara McCaffery, Lesley Turner, Laura Feeleus. Susan Purney-Mark signs in. Gatherers: Katie Stein Sather and Jennifer Love ‘Gathering at the Edge’ is a three-day event in conjunction with the national touring exhibition, ‘Edge of the Forest,’ where […]
Read More...‘Edge of the Forest’ exhibition and ‘Gathering at the Edge’ event committee. L to R- Gina Dingwell, Barbara McCaffrey, Lesley Turner, Laura Feeleus After touring across Canada the ‘Edge of the Forest’ juried textile exhibition arrives on Vancouver Island to be hosted by the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association. Here it is loaded up and […]
Read More...Martha Cole, a Saskatchewan fibre artist, has brought her monumental community art project to Victoria for the first time. You can see it in the Cadboro Bay United Church until May. “All Beings Confluence is a community-based, interactive project that was directly inspired by Carolyn McDade, a composer, social activist and environmentalist whose music has sustained and […]
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