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Thursday 13 October 2016

2016 Fibre Arts Festival & Sale Guest Artists


Roxann Blazetich-Ozols


Roxann has worked with fibre and beads for over 15 years creating beaded jewellery then kits under the name of BEADADDICT.  Recent beadwork collaborations with lampwork artists have given Roxann the opportunity to engineer unique wearable art pieces that have been included in US and Canadian publications, exhibitions and competitions.  She is the designer of the dual lucet, DUCETTE, with which she teaches braiding techniques from her own instructions using contemporary fibre and stringing materials.




Theresa English
Sashiko Boro Technique


Sashiko translates to "little stabs" and Boro to "tattered rags".  As a quilter and rug hooker who uses mainly recycled materials, this ancient technique designed out of necessity to reinforce and strengthen material really spoke to me.  Using small bits and pieces from my quilting scrap bag, I started layering them, hand tacked them all in place and then using cotton thread, a ring thimble and the traditional 3 inch long very sharp needle made a beautiful piece of "new fabric".  Since this is a Japanese art form dating back to the 1600s, I was inspired to take this fabric and fashion it into Japanese knot bags.




Rene Vandenbrink

Rene is a London based artist working primarily with textiles and printmaking.  Her process-based work explores collecting, interactions with nature, recycling, surface design and experimenting with handmade and DIY techniques in environmentally sustainable ways.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors Specialization in Studio Art from Western University, an Art Studies Certificate in Vocational Art from BealArt and has attended various workshops, presentations and interest groups through the Canadian Embroiderers Guild, London and the Southwestern Ontario Chapter of Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.  She has exhibited with The Westland Gallery, Forest City Gallery and Artlab Gallery in London, Graven Feather, the Japanese Paper Place and OCADU's Graduate Gallery in Toronto as well as Art Mur and the Centres des Arts Actuels Skol in Montreal.



                                                                                                                                                           

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