I enjoy making wall art that engages the viewer on aesthetic, intellectual, emotional and sometimes spiritual levels.
Contact: fibrefling.contact@gmail.com
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Inspiration: Honouring a beautiful golden elder that adorned our yard, but was removed because it was touching and killing the branches of a neighbour’s tree.
Techniques and materials: Machine piecing, raw edge machine applique, machine quilting
Hung, soft mount: 20 inches x 78 inches
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Inspiration: The power of tectonic plates. Convergence features a plate moving below another at a coastline. Hot spot represents shifting below the sea.
Techniques and materials: Raw edge machine applique using batik and hand dyed cottons. Machine quilting.
Mounted on canvas: 24 inches x 27 inches
$375
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Waiting for Juan
Inspiration: Empathy for those in the path of a violent storm, nervously awaiting its arrival, or dealing with the aftermath.
Techniques and materials: Needle punched wool through cotton backing, machine applique; organza layered over; machine embroidery on top
Mounted on canvas: 12 inches x 24 inches
$225
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Night Sky – A Diptych
Inspiration: Long exposure photos of star trails.
Techniques and materials: Star Trails uses machine embroidery on batik, with beads. Spectral Blooms is a playful interpretation of the theme with machine piecing and embroidery.
Mounted on canvas: 10 inches x 23 inches
$75
Inspiration: The excitement, uncertainty and hopefulness in the steps of people returning to their communities and homes after a period of forced abandonment.
Techniques and materials: Machine pieced and quilted cotton prints and hand dyes.
Hung: 40 inches x 66 inches
$375
Inspiration: The late Jack Layton’s sincerity, honesty and commitment to his ideals; leadership qualities now magnified in Ukraine President Zelensky.
Techniques and materials: Machine piecing and quilting; photo transfer.
Hung: 23 inches x 26 inches
$350
Inspiration: Nature’s triumph. In 1711 construction began on a huge monastery in Antigua, Guatemala. It was finished four years later, but was demolished in 1751 after a third major earthquake.
Techniques and materials: Raw edge machine applique, photo transfer, machine couching and quilting; lower border a weft Ikat from Guatemala.
Hung: 20 inches x 16 inches
$175
Inspiration: Using freeform cutting and print fabrics suitable for human features, I created an amusing portrait of the staid Inspector Maigret.
Techniques and materials: Hand applique.
Hung: 12 inches x 30 inches