I play with fabric, thread and paint. I am drawn to nature, mathematics, light and shadow; exploring colours, textures and life. Every fibre art work is an adventure, each sets me up against my limits, my fears. Each one teaches me that there are no creative limits. The work for me is to keep growing and to keep at bay the critical voices (mine) – to continue to be open to the world.

Available Fibre Art

  • MacKay Barns Imagined

    In the winter months, the MacKay barns are imposing, weathered, grey structures set against a steel grey sky on a snow covered field.

    Available

  • Winter at Balmoral II

    “Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver.
    My country is not a country, it’s winter.”
    Gilles Vigneault
    Crisp, clear, cold, woefully underrated, wonderful white winter.

    Available

  • Balmoral Grist Mill

    Tucked away in a wooded gorge on Matheson’s Brook is a three storey grist mill where wheat, oats and buckwheat are ground on granite stones.

    Available

  • Tantramar Marsh

    The salt marshes, this place between the tides, made of both land and water, is an ecosystem dominated by grasses and flooded repeatedly by saltwater tidal flows.

    Available

  • Golden Spiral

    A line . . . a curve . . . a number . . . and within the Fibonacci whole number sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,…) the shape borrowed from nature is most ingeniously and marvelously articulated.

    Available

  • Walls Long Gone

    In the solitude of this Acadian forest, there still stands, in this chimney, a staggering example of the fortitude, ingenuity and fine handcraft of pioneers who came to Nova Scotia in the early 1800’s to build a life.

    Available

  • Seashell's Spell

    The spell of this biomimetic structure displays its magical and magisterial design and is common, plentiful on the shores of the Northumberland Strait in northern Nova Scotia.

    Available

  • Elephants and Far East Kaleidoscope

    Based on Paula Nadelstern’s technique for creating fabric kaleidoscopes.

    Available
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In Private Collections

  • The MacKay Barns

  • Fables

  • Endicott Johnson

  • Walking in the Walchia

  • I walk with you

  • Swallows and Oak

  • Guardian Mayflies

  • Dragonfly Pond

  • Heather's Wood

  • East River Bay

  • Fiddleheads

  • DNA Daughters

  • Stinkbug

  • Rauga Bee

  • In Silent Flight

  • Three Bums

  • Moonlit Morning Glories

  • At the End of the Day

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Thread Vessels

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    spring inspired - a flight of fancy

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    nest - a wee one

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    red and dotted - low and wide

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    wisps of orange

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    skeletal - leaf veins

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    colours - blue in hiding

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    blueberry - with a hint of purple

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Making the work? I have an image and I struggle to bring it to life. It is cutting and piecing, not quite knowing what will crystallize. It is adding and taking away, dyeing, painting, layering, collage, embellishing, and stitching, trusting that this will work with that. The same kind of trust we have that a small black and white seed will emerge and grow into a glorious tall sunflower. Bit by bit, piece by piece, it emerges.

Photo credit - Sarah Baker Forward