I just received this yummy book in the mail & I have already spent several hours dipping into it. Nancy Bradfield obviously loves costume...

I have been thinking about the exhibition Wack! and why the time period it covers, 60s & 70s, is called a revolution in the art world....

I went to this exhibition in Vancouver last weekend. Vancouver is its 4th and last stop in its North American tour. I recommend you go to...

I am adding on the 2nd layer to this Tyndall stone work by weaving in a variety of thick yarns & tapes. I want to show fossil/organic...

It was Julia's funeral yesterday. On and off, all day, I was thinking of her, her family and all of their friends and how sad they must...

I found some more images of the work I posted yesterday. This close up shows the work with the 3rd layer - the buttonhole stitch starting...

Back in 2005 Quilting Arts Magazine featured a series of articles written by Julia Caprara. In the Winter issue, Julia wrote about the...

I have just reread the interview Maggi Grey did with Julia Caprara in her Workshop on the Web e-zine, May 2007. It is such a good...

...from India Last week I ordered Julia's new 'Exploring Colour' book from D4daisy, http://www.d4daisy.com/ . I have read so many...

Julia was interested in symbols left behind by ancient peoples. So here are some Canadian petroglyphs and pictographs for Julia. Canadian...

Julia's idea of the perfect place to be while working in her sketchbooks was to be warm while sitting beside water. So here are some...

I am filling my blog space with colour today to remember Julia Caprara who passed away on Friday. Julia was one of the doyennes of the...

During one of my earlier Opus BA modules I was exploring wrapping the environment. I wrapped a fabric covered cotton cord around a tree...

Kwele initiation mask, CongoWith my Opus BA studies I have been looking at how African art... ...inspired Picasso. This is a detail...

We drove up to Edmonton for Thanksgiving with family. While there we took in Gunther von Hagen's Bodyworlds exhibition, ...

Today I got together a power point presentation in preparation for a talk I am giving to the Calgary Guild of Needle and Fibre Arts, my...

Today, for my Opus studies, I compared these 2 works of art in my answer to the question... Is the body in art always eroticised, if so...

I have been studying images of nude women all week for my new Opus module. It is very interesting to read different people's opinions as...

I have been so busy these past 2 weeks finishing up the summer module of work for the Opus BA course I am doing. This afternoon I put...

We, Articulation, went to the prairies in August to catch the harvesting of the crop. We saw the high tech modern way... ...where some...