Yesterday we spent most of the day in the dye and print studios. After Ingrid's demo on making a deconstructed screen with thickened...

While in the paper/dying studio, Ingrid gave us a demo on making a deconstructed screen for printing on fabric with thickened dye. The...

This is the Banff Art Centre dye studio. It has everything one could want when working with fabric and dyes. This morning I put some...

Here we all are at Banff with more of the group to join us at various times through out the month: (left) Gloria S. Daly, Ingrid Lincoln,...

There was great excitement today. While we were in the Glyde Building having our WHMIS orientation (safety training) so we could use the...

March 1st is the 1st day of Articulation's residency in the Leighton Colony at The Banff Centre. We checked in, had our photo ID Artist...

For the past few weeks I have been working with a grades 11 & 12 art class as they learn how to dye and paint fabric. They random-dyed...

Walls Talk is finished - 120 hours of stitching! John Dean is the photographer. He always does a superb job with my work. There is lots...

Working on building up the focal point of the wall. This is a large fossil form caught in the stone. I will have to move the stone blocks...

I am hewing the last stone for the Tyndall wall. Each day I have been washing and blocking a block once it looks as though it has enough...

One of the Walls Talk blocks told me it was finished so it went into a soapy bath for a good clean. Then it was blocked, right side...

I'm back stitching in earnst on my Walls Talk (I think that is its name). I have made 8 blocks of Tyndall stone to make the wall. I now...

Don't Abandon Me Another artist I looked at in my essay was Louise Bourgeois. A vital part of her human form sculptures in cloth is they...

Christian Boltanski is another artist who works with cloth and the body. I wrote about his work in my essay too.'Art can only be made if...

I have returned to earth now that I have completed an essay for the Opus BA module I am doing this semester. What a journey. I learnt...

I recently came across Sue Stone's work and find this one ' East End Chair' so appealing. I don't know why. Is it all of the textures...

While doing research for a term paper I read a great essay by the art critic and historian, Edward Lucie-Smith. He is someone with the...

A good friend gave me a delicious book, Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery, published by the Peabody Essex Museum,...

A kind friend sent me a yummy book. WACK!, the exhibition on in the Vancouver Art Gallery left me wanting to find out more about what...

I am making a Tyndall Stone wall. I have prepared my palette, just as Julia Caprara says to do. Torn strips of fabric... ..lengths of...