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…

Hope empowers quirky denim objects I’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…

Making space for the creative process, at home or away​ ​ The following is a public service announcement for all those cowering from the liquid gunmetal-grey skies on this bone-chilling coast: …

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…

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…

If you stitch it (in public) they will come ​ An artist-instructor friend advised me, as I was preparing my portfolio to apply to art school, that if I was planning to include images of my quilts…

Art school is just the end of the beginning The concourse was a crush on opening night at  Emily Carr University ’s Spring grad show. Seventies’ disco music fuelled giddy graduates clutching…

Escaping the dark world of scrolling the socials “Take it outside” was a standard parenting directive back in the 1900s, shouted at the kids when pro-wrestling or trying to extricate a running…

Hand-making outside the dominant economic system

Our job as artists is to imagine different futures