A graduate of the Ontario College of Art in Textile Design, (1981) and Fleming College, (1994) Jane has taught art courses at Harbourfront Craft Studios in Toronto and Fleming College in Lindsay. Jane is a past president of ' Surfacing: Textile Dyers and Printers of Ontario' and a past executive board member for the Ontario Crafts Council. She is currently living in Lindsay and working with the Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives. "I work from a back ground in traditional fibre arts -working in tapestry, needlework weaving and spinning. The language of fibre, its history as a humble craft and domestic echoes inspire me. I want to take that language and use it in new ways to tell a new story. Antique quilts are all about stories - the stories of the people who wore the fabric - the hand of the woman who pieced it together - the tracery of the quilt stitching is yet another story - a subtext"
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JW1 DAVID'S STORY Acrylic painting / antique fabric/ collage - hand stitched 3 ft X 4 ft - based on traditional 'log cabin' quilt pattern. $1,200. JW2 WINTER BLANKET Acrylic painting / antique fabric/ collage - hand stitched 3 ft X 4 ft - framed- based on traditional 'nine patch' quilt pattern. $800. JW3 SHANNON'S PILLOW Acrylic painting / antique fabric/ collage - hand stitched 3 ft X 4 ft - framed- based on traditional 'baby blocks or six- sided star' quilt pattern. $1,500. JW4 UNFINISHED STORIES Acrylic painting / antique fabric /collage - hand stitched 3 ft X 4 ft - based on traditional 'variable star' quilt pattern. $900. JW5 SIX-SIDE STAR Acrylic painting / antique fabric /collage - hand stitched 31 inches X 25 inches- framed- based on traditional ''six - sided star' quilt pattern. $600. |
All text and photographs © the individual artists.
'Virtual Tour' photographs © 2003 Darrell
Markewitz, the Wareham Forge.