In my last two blog entries, I talked about how I began making art about my family’s farm. Today, I’m going to talk more about the work I have created and how the project evolved after moving back to Canada from doing my masters in England. Towards the end of my studies in England, I worked through ideas that I had by trying things out. I took the images and maps that I had collected during … Read entire article »

My art is a recording of memories of the farm and of the changing land with textiles, photography, screen-printing, and rug hooking. The aspects that I am recording are multidimensional: buildings, foods, plants, livestock, and the people that knew this place so well. The research that I have done has involved gathering maps, recipes, and stories from family members. After making the colour palette entitled, north of the trans Canada, I wanted to show the horizon … Read entire article »