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Fibre Arts

Art quilters express their creative vision and evoke individual reactions from viewers by using time honoured techniques such as applique, piecing, and embroidery in unusual and unexpected ways.

Seven Ontario fibre artists have loaned prize winning art quilts to raise awareness and to promote The Quilt Project. Each of them will be creating a themed quilt to be auctioned for the 10th anniversary of The Quilt Project in 2008.

Her love affair with fabric equipped Janet Rhind of Oakville with an impressive selection of confetti-like bits of colour which she sprinkled on a background to create sky, sea, land and foliage in “Tuscan Villa V”.

Wendy Purves of Toronto coaxed “Arctic Sunrise” to life by skillfully manipulatingfabric values and hues. Fabric paint and quilting lines added texture, depth, and form.

BJ Reid of Toronto evokes a different reaction from each viewer with “Passion”.. Created with netting, multiple red and pink prints, embroidery and beads, the single rose was appliquéd to a flesh coloured embellished triangle.

“A Blue Man (So Happy to See You)” took shape and form through the careful manipulation of lines, shapes, textures, and colours of thousands of beads. Linda Rawson Stewart of Kinburn was inspired by a primitive art figures on a tomb in Indonesia.

Martha Brown from Pickering used her eye for colour and dramatic imagery to appliqué sinuous shapes of browns and green cotton , creating “Madonna” cuddling a baby. Her skilful quilting lines add depth and dimension.

Fabrics from around the world were combined with a playful free motion zigzag by Donna Funnell of Milton. Human expression on the thirteen masks was created with beads and embroidery.

Jane Vickery of Toronto focused on the other end of the body, the legs- specifically “Varicose Veins for Inner Vision (Gut Feelings)”. Knotted veins of yarn encircled legs that joyfully ignored the printed rules for avoiding that medical problem.