by andrea | Jan 10, 2020 | Art, Blog
From January 16 of January 27, 2020, I will be representing my first duo exhibition, Facets, with Libs Elliott in Toronto as part of the DesignTO Festival. This year marks the 10th anniversary of this festival and celebrate all things design: from craft objects to...
by andrea | Oct 31, 2019 | Art, Blog, Canada, Colour
This past summer I had the opportunity to take part in a summer Hoyt House artist residency at Kings Landing in Prince William, New Brunswick. We got to inhabit a delightfully blue house during our studio days, to create work and enjoy the surroundings at this living...
by andrea | Jun 4, 2019 | Art, Blog, Colour
Starry Night — one of the world’s most well-known paintings — has been subsumed into the image bank of my mind and probably influenced the design of my hoop quilt design, Canned Pineapples. In this post, we’ll talk about how to choose colours...
by andrea | Oct 4, 2018 | Art, Blog, Community, Have You Met, Our Song, Quilts
As the crowdfunding campaign for Our Song, Your Reflection was unfolding in May and June of this year, I asked a few quilting friends — new and old! — to each make a star block. It could be paper pieced from the original pattern, their own star invention,...
by andrea | Oct 2, 2018 | Art, Blog, Canada, Community
Last December, as I reflected on the year that had passed, I came to the conclusion that an overarching goal in 2018 would be “to learn how to be an artist.” Let me now qualify that with an adjective: “To learn how to be a professional artist.”...
by andrea | Sep 17, 2018 | Art, Blog, Colour, Quilts
Earlier this year, designer Alison Glass released her line of shot cotton solids, Kaleidoscope. I had the privilege of exploring these saturated colours in a second version of Our Song, Your Reflection. The result was a blazing sunset on a contrasting cool colour...
