With this work i am exploring the relationship between hemoglobin and chlorophyll. Their molecules are the same except for...

Remember this work made from a collection of domestic linens dyed red and green... ...strip-pieced and cut a number of times... ...and...

Over the summer I spent more time organising the college's library. All of the books on individual artists are grouped and labelled with...

After completing the Pattern Design course, my studio was a chaotic mess. I knew I couldn't begin on my next project until I had put...

To teach the Pattern Design course I set up stations around the studio. This is where I demoed how to make different stamps. This was a...

One session during the Pattern Design course I taught at Victoria College of Art, we explored the concept of Notan. I had been keen to...

Articulation is working on an exciting project. Several years ago, we all spent a week based in Regina while studying farms on...

My sister and I spent the day in the Lower Studio at the Victoria College of Art getting it ready for a new course I am teaching on...

The Vancouver Island Surface Design Association had the opening of their Current Threads 11 exhibition at the Ladysmith Waterfront...

After completing a screen printing of a wallpaper over the whole cloth, I put on a wash of light blue paint beside the yellow. I put it...

Another layer was added to our cloths by freely brushing on the back with paint I added some dry brush strokes with a tree stump under...

The 3rd day was spent mostly on silk screening on our 4 meters of cloth. I wanted a wall paper effect so combined an alternating band...

We began day 2 by making different stamps and playing around with them. The next step with our cloth was to establish territories on it. ...

I attended the 1st week of this years Metchosin Summer School of the Arts out at the beautiful Lester Pearson College campus...

The 1st exercise with the disperse dyes Marie-Therese had us do was a sample of the different dyes.  This proved to be a...

The 2nd week, after the SDA conference, I attended a 5-day workshop run by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, from Australia. Marie-Therese is an...

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During the few hours break between the conference and start of the next week of workshops, a group of us took advantage of an outing...

I felt there was some confusion in the focus of the fashion show. There were fashion garments that showed a wide range of surface design...

The feature artist of the Surface Design Association Members' Fashion show was Carter Smith, a shibori artist who has been at his craft...