by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2026 | Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Apocalypse Now, Art Blog, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Distracts, Doilies, ECU, ECUAD MFA, Emily Carr University, Fiber Arts, Material Exploration, Painting, Petrochemical, Upcycle
A pretty and pretty repellent tapestry composed of a lot of bad decisions and ignorance is having a moment.It had a benign beginning eight years ago: to approach painting like making a quilt. It started when I discovered I could pour viscous acrylic paint onto acetate...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist
Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 21, 2026 | Art Blog, Carlyn Yandle, Collage, Creative Process, Dyeing, Found Materials, Inspiration, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Making Is Connecting, Material Exploration, Mobile Art Practice, Painting, Pattern, Photography, Playing, Travel Art
Making space for the creative process, at home or awayThe following is a public service announcement for all those cowering from the liquid gunmetal-grey skies on this bone-chilling coast: Crank up the Vitamin D. We need 800-1000 IUs per day so pop a supplement or a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2025 | Carlyn Yandle, Climate Change, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Drip By Drip, Expanded Painting, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Found Materials, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Making Is Connecting, Material Exploration, Social Engagement
As of this writing, those living or working on 500 properties just 60 kilometres away have been ordered to seek dry land. Those on another 1,000 properties are being told to be ready for word to flee the “slow-moving tsunami” from another flooded river south of the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 5, 2025 | Abundance, Accumulations, Art Quilt, Collection, Creative Process, Edward Burtynsky, Hearth, Hoarding, Overabundance, Painting, Pattern, Pop-Up, PopUp, Quilt Block, Quilting, Repetition, Scale
I’ve learned to live with a head full of bees but these days it’s all about wasps.So. Many. Wasps. Wasps that retreated indoors last week after the pest-control guy shot up the kitchen fan vent with a killer powder. Wasps that just wouldn’t stay away even...
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