Capilano Textile Arts at Circle Craft Christmas Market

Circle Craft Christmas Market at the Vancouver Convention Centre West begins today!

Capilano University's Textile Arts program has a booth with a variety of student and alumni work on display, including some of my own. I will be there on Sunday, November 11th from 1pm to 5pm. Hope to see you there!

Richmond Maritime Festival

Here is a slideshow from the Richmond Maritime Festival weekend. We lucked out with perfect weather for the event! Loads of people were interested in making fish prints and contributing to the public art installation on the fence along the First Nations' bunkhouse. We went through over 700 pieces of fabric, so I'd have to say that it was a successful weekend of art-making!

Richmond Maritime Festival

Join me and Colette Lisoway http://www.colettelisoway.com/ at the Richmond Maritime Festival on August 10 & 11th to make fish prints! Adapted from the traditonal Japanese art of gyotaku, we will be using an assortment of fish replicas to print onto fabric and then using those prints we will create a community art installation.

Come find us in Zone 3 at the festival! Richmond Maritime Festival activities
We'll be at the southwest corner of the First Nations Bunkhouse (see below picture)

West Vancouver Memorial Library Gallery

If you missed the opportunity to see the student work at the grad show, some pieces are hanging in the West Vancouver Memorial Library now through the end of July.  http://www.westvanlibrary.ca/event/gallery
Go have a look; it is a beautiful library and well worth a visit!

Capilano University Textile Arts Grad Show

Here are some photos from the opening night of our Grad Show at Seymour Art Gallery in Deep Cove.  http://www.seymourartgallery.com/index.php

It was a fabulous evening and a wonderful celebration and exhibition of some of the work produced by students in the 2-year Textile Arts program at Capilano University. http://www2.capilanou.ca/programs/textile-arts.html
The show runs until this coming Sunday, May 27th when there will be an artist talk at 2pm. Please come by if you can make it!

 

Paper lanterns

These are some prototypes for vat-dyed, shibori lampshades made for my final project in Surface Design.

I received a very generous donation of assorted fine papers from Yvonne Wakabayaski http://www.yvonnewakabayashi.com/ and I wanted to test the limitations of each type of paper. I started with some origami folding for tesselation patterning, which I could not get to work on any of the papers. I went on to fold and clamp the paper before dipping them in various vat-dyes. Some paper stood up very well in cold water vat dyes, but didn't do as well in the warm indigo vat. To my surprise the most delicate-looking paper was the most durable.

 

 

 

 

 The truncated doctahedron shape is my favourite; it looks like it belongs in Doctor Who...especially when you adjust the picture like this!

And it's very spacey-looking at night...

 

Embroidery Project

This embroidery sampler from my second semester (last spring) fulfilled the project criteria that it must be a 'narrative of self, include text, and a date'.
I thought it would be interesting to delve into my educational past for this project. I wasn't a very focused student, but I  had a social agenda back in elementary and high school, which is well documented in my report cards.
I extracted some of my teachers' comments from my report cards and created this little handbook, which I thought could be a very useful guide for the younger generation of girls in my family.

Spring Inspired Tapestry

 I'm working on my final project for weaving, a tapestry inspired by the springtime. I wanted to capture the look of the sunlight as it appears through the foliage; I like all of the shadows created by the layering of leaves.

 

 

Paper Pursuits

I combined shibori techniques with indigo dyeing and origami for these three projects for Surface Design.

I'm exploring more tesselation patterns for my final project; their potential for interiors is astounding!