Felting artisan, Andrea Elmhirst, works to combine her love of Canada, the outdoors and her love of wool. Since 2010, Andrea has grown her art to include wet felting, needle felting and crocheting. Inspired by travelling and immersing herself in the Canadian north,...
As a creative person I use many of my favourite techniques with fabric to make useful things, mostly using repurposed textiles. Energy, time, skill, resources and thought has already gone into these products and I try to use them to create something useful, modern,...
Patricia Vega is an award-winning fine artist, educator, and graphic designer who specializes in printmaking and cyanotype. She uses these mediums to explore visual art as a universal language. While her primary focus is on printmaking techniques, Patricia is...
My art is a love letter, it’s an expression of my love of nature, of its diversity and beauty. It is all about sky and depth. Movement in a frozen moment, and yet this pause can speak so loudly and is so important to telling the story of the time and place. All of my...
Holly Friesen was born in Saskatchewan, studied Visual Arts at John Abbott College in Montreal and painting at York University in Toronto. The artist’s current studio is based in Montreal QC and much of her summers are spent painting, paddling and hiking in Algonquin...
Inspired by the beauty of Mother Nature, I’m on a creative journey exploring & creating with all things organic – silk, wool roving, threads & more! I love working with natural materials & combining different techniques such as Shibori Dyeing, Nuno...
After having been born into a family of artists and collectors, with island cottages in Muskoka, is it any surprise it would come natural to Jocelyn to want to carry on the love of these traditions, and make it a dream to live there and become an artist here at MAC?...
Wilma Antaya was introduced to the art of weaving as a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Weavers and Spinners Guild and has been a hand weaver for over 40 years. Wilma's "Handwoven Blankets to Treasure" have been displayed as a feature exhibit at the Amazing Clayworks...
I am a mixed media fibre artist working with natural fibres, dying & felting wool, ink and paper. I studied at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson BC and have a degree from Trent University in English & Cultural Studies. For the past 30 years I have...
Andrea is a texture and colour lover. Making things that can be felt is important in her work and so using a combination of fibres, her tufting, punch needle, weaving and hooking work transforms into 3D pieces you can't help but run your hands over! Also a painter by...