Artwherk at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Come see the golden girls and my robots at the Art Gallery of Ontario!

Abaca paper pumpkins

I've just been thinking about techniques I've learned and haven't used in a dogs age. I loved paper making so much. Abaca was my favorite because of its smooth texture and finish. What I love the most was that the more layers of pulp you put down the stiffer the paper (especially with abaca fibres). Casting objects in paper was really rewarding and I decided to cast pumpkins for this particular project. This was the finished piece and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I really hope that I can do more paper making one day.

Robot in robot: felt, metal and fun

This is a full and detail shot of my trojan robot. The metal robot is woven from metal tape and the little guy is made of felt. I liked the contrast of materials and the idea of a robot controlling a robot.

The carnival comes again, this time with animals

Here are the embroideries that I did a year after the bag that I just posted about. I did these embroideries about the animals used in sideshows and circuses. There were six in total and the elephant image was actually featured in an issue of Surface Design magazine! I think the horse was my favorite piece in this series.

The carnival comes, side shows and stripes

These are images of a bag that I did for a project a couple of years ago and then some inspired surface designs I did later inspired from that bag. There were four designs in total but I'm just showing you two of them. The inspiration was vintage carnival and sideshows. I really enjoyed doing these and I'm going to do another post of some embroideries using the same theme. I think I'll go back and investigate this theme further one day.

Junko Mizuno at Magic Pony

Now if you are familiar with her work you'll know what I'm talking about.

Junko has an amazing talent for combining the cute and grotesque and make it seem absolutely lovely!  She does all kinds of work but what you should look out for are her re-imaginings of fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, The little Mermaid and Cinderella.  

Now  for the really exciting news!  Junko is coming here to Toronto and is going to have her very own show at Magic Pony's new gallery Narwhal!  Opening is Thursday June 18th 7-10pm and you should definitely be there!!!

See you then!