Dale MacEwan email – dalemac@telus.net Each year, around June, a group of 5 local artists install an exhibition in the Community Art Council of the Saanich Peninsula (CACSP) gallery in Tulista Park, Sidney. Dale makes pieced and quilted compositions reflecting micro views of the landscape she lives in. She often incorporates her photographs printed on cloth and […]
Read More...Sherley Gordon Edey has invited 7 other artists working in different media to exhibit their work with her photography while exploring the many layers of meaning in the statement ‘Know Your Place’ Sherley presents her work in a wide variety of formats, including video and keeps the viewer looking for the story. Often several different stories […]
Read More...‘Canadiana’ May 1 – 8, 2015 Textile Art ShowCommunity Arts Centre, 9565 Fifth Streetat Tulista Park in Sidney Open daily 10 am – 4 pm A travelling exhibition of 30 works exploring a sense of place in Canada by members of the Fibre Art Network. FAN is a co-operative of Fibre Artists in Western Canada. This […]
Read More...Another stunning exhibition at the SDA conference was a collection of Maria Shell’s quilts, at Gallery Nord. “Color Grids” Every quilt was made using the same quilt block. But Maria played with ‘line, shape, print, and color’ to produce a collection of technically exquisite and very different quilts. The quilts were installed in a 3-sided booth, […]
Read More...Foreclosure QuiltsThis is the intro members got before viewing Kathryn Clark’s work:“Clark’s life as an architect and urban planner influences her work as an artist. As the foreclosure crisis spiraled out of control, this exhibit took its form from foreclosure maps that marked the disintegration of neighborhoods in major U.S. cities.”Many of us had also […]
Read More...The inspiration for Post Cards # 4 and #5 came from the Age of Sail Museum http://www.ageofsailmuseum.ca/, the sailor’s costume for Post Card #4 and these woolen quilts for Post Card #5. The quilts appear to be made from woolen clothing, particularly men’s suits. One of my favourite textile researchers is Anne Hollander. She has written extensively on the […]
Read More...I found this such an interesting book.I went through it twice, once for the photos and again to read the well written bios of mainly American quilters. It is a ‘Whose Who’ of the past and present North American ( mainly) quilt world.By featuring quilt artists from the early 19th century to the present it […]
Read More...My friend Carol made me a quilt!It is a very special quilt because usually Carol makes her quilts for babies who have to spend time in hospital and she makes them for her family.They are made from previously worn cotton velour clothing she finds all over the city.She cuts them up and with her painterly […]
Read More...(Left) Wendy Klotz’s ‘Gates Puzzle’ silk piecing and applique and Vickie Newington’s stump work and stamping. Donna Clement’s ‘Spruce’ and ‘Cedar’, free motion embroidery on cotton, silk, linen and paper. Wendy Klotz’s ‘Colours of the Forest’, hand dyed, hand/wet felted, machine embroidered wool and organza. Vickie Newington’s work. (not sure of the title of the […]
Read More...I am posting images of the Articulation exhibition at CQA on 2 different blogs – mine and Articulation’s. Left – Ingrid’s “Night” is an abstract response to the city she has lived in for many years. There are lots of layers here: screen printing, applique, mark making by hand.Middle – Gloria’s work started as a […]
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