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Sea States
Recently, I heard blue water sailors discussing sea states. I was intrigued by the term and investigated the Beaufort scale. I love the idea of the sea having a recognized state of being. Water...
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SHIFT Exhibition Catalogue
Yesterday saw the close of the SHIFT exhibition in North Vancouver. The physical show is all packed up and back in our studios today, but all of the work can now be viewed in an exhibition catalogue....
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Propagation: a SHIFT dress
In the creation of Propagation, I build up layers of strata using my shadow felting techniques. This layering adds visual depth, emphasized by the dark line crevices. Cracks in our soil that allow for...
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Respiration: an Outdoor Felt Installation
One of my big summer projects is an outdoor felt installation created for the juried exhibition LandArt @ ArtCraft.I have been fascinated with Land Art for many years, and allowed the whisperings of a...
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SHIFT travels to Vancouver
‘SHIFT’ includes oil paintings by visual artist Barbra Edwards and sculptural feltmaking by fibre artist Fiona Duthie. Both artists use local, natural materials and subject matter in their work with a...
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Peaks & Valleys :: Surface Design Online Exhibition
This is a very special project. The first online exhibition of the Surface Design Online Challenge.The Surface Design Online program is all about experimentation and pushing yourself further into...
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On Being a Student....
To close off my teaching season, I decided to give myself a creative gift, and become a student for a weekend. It was such a refreshing and informative time. Even outside of learning new skills under...
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full(filled) exhibition and Artist Interview
All of the exhibition pieces for full(filled) are just about finished. Each work is now getting individual attention each day, making it ready for installation on Tuesday. The exhibition is in quite...
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Starting in balance....
The Valhallas- the view from our cabin....In my book of everything (my special black book that some of you will know!) this year is looking just fantastic, and got off to a wonderful beginning with...
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Terra Textures-Surface Design in Felt Workshops
I am absolutely delighted to announce a workshop series created by Katia Mokeyeva and myself to be offered this April at the Okanagan School of the Arts in Penticton,BC. Katia and I met while both...
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Online Felting Workshops: Spring 2015
Registration is now open for the four online felting classes I'll be offering in Spring 2015. The Surface Design Online class has gotten bigger every time I've offered it....there is always just one...
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Okanagan School of the Arts Workshops 1
I have been working in one version of my most perfect place... there are several variations on this... but this is definitely a good one. The Okanagan is beautiful. And home to Canada's best wines,...
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Technique: Colour Shifting with Batting
Wool fibres can be used like paints, laid out to create surface colour changes, but also combined in layers to build new colors through shadowing. We can also use this simple technique to create a...
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Hegira: A SHIFT dress
HegiraHe·gi·rahiˈjīrə,ˈhejərə/ : anyflightorjourneyto amoredesirableorcongenialplace. Usually an exodus or migration. C16:fromMedievalLatin,fromArabichijrah:emigrationorflightThis is the sisterdress...
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Fall Felting Retreat- Quebec
The dates and details are set for a relaxing, revitalizing, energizing fall felting retreat - I am so looking forward to this event! The retreat will run on October 3, 4, 5, 2014, at Meech Lake,...
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Rift : A SHIFT dress
The layouts in this series of dress sculptures were so complex. There were often multiple layers of resists, or else multiple layers of patterning. The designs had to be thought through in that...
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Greater than the sum of the parts...
Migration with Day Tripper and Night Dance in the background The SHIFT exhibition opening was a wonderful night! The show was very well attended by an enthusiastic audience. To open the show, only...
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The Last Dress
Yesterday I finished the last piece for my exhibition...a little background for you, written as I worked. Here I am....on the day of the photo shoot of my most recent work. One day before the...
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SHIFT : exploring layers of perception
SHIFT : exploring layers of perspectiveJuly 11- August 110:00am-5:00pmArtCraft Gallery, 114 Rainbow Road Salt Spring IslandA joint exhibition of work by Barbra Edwards, visual artist, and Fiona Duthie,...
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Emerging and Retreating
a treasured gift from my friend els @ fiber rainbowLike Spring Bulbs and New Leaves.... As the Surface Design Online class ends, and my teaching schedule for the season closes, I find myself in an...
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