New affiliations - Spring 2017:

Invited Member, Connections Fibre Artists
“Connections Fibre Artists is dedicated to the exploration of fibre – cloth, thread, paper and mixed media, as an art form...Members teach, give lectures, exhibit independently and show internationally.”  Upcoming exhibit:

• Running With Fibre, Gallery Stratford, Ontario - July 14 - Sept 24, 2017.  Join us for the opening reception Friday, July 14, at 7pm.

Juried Artist Member, Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA)
SAQA's mission is "to promote the art quilt through education, exhibitions, professional development, documentation, and publications." Juried Artists are selected by portfolio review. Upcoming exhibits:

• My Corner of the World, Canada -  travelling, Australia, 2017-18
• Concrete and Grasslands - travelling, Europe and China, 2017-18

Current exhibit details:

North America:
Gallery Stratford:  Running With Fibre (Connections group)
            Stratford, Ontario, July 15  - Sep 24, 2017
          Opening Reception: 7pm July 14, 2017. 
Thunder Bay Museum:  Threadworks (juried group)
            Thunder Bay, Ontario, May 8  - Jun 29, 2017. 
Temiskaming Art Gallery:  Threadworks (juried group)
            Halleybury, Ontario, Jul 4 - Aug 30, 2017.
Simcoe County Museum:  Fibre Content  (juried group)
            Minesing, Ontario, Sep - Nov, 2017.
Arthur Child Heritage Museum:  Threadworks (juried group)
            Gananoqué, Ontario, Sep 12 - Oct 31, 2017.
 Scugog Shores Museum:  Threadworks  (juried group)
            Port Perry, Ontario, Nov 6, 2017 - Jan 6, 2018
Australia:
           My Corner of the World (juried group)
         Exhibition Park, Canberra, Aug 2017
         Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Aug 2017
         Goyder Pavilion, Adelaide Showground, Sept 2017
         Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, Nov 2017
         & additional venues through 2018
Europe:
           My Corner of the World (juried group)
            Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines, France, Sep 14-17, 2017
          Vicenza, Italy, Oct  19-22, 2017
         Concrete & Grasslands (juried group)
            Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK, Aug 2018
Asia:
           Concrete & Grasslands (juried group)
            9th Asia Quilt Festival, Shanghai, Sep 22-24, 2017

Gallery

Overhead Underfoot

Contemplating walking paths.

Dappled and shifting patterns on paths, roads, beaches evoke the broader sky, nature, wind, and light overhead. Looking down becomes uplifting.

Eye to Eye

Chicken portraits.
 
At a human scale, eye-to-eye, you might see familiar personalities, emotions, characters… chicken? ...person? ...both?

Small Skies

Real and imagined skies.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough,  wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The subject is vast but the pieces are small, to fit in close places where horizons are hard to come by.