A line . . . a curve . . . a number . . . and within the Fibonacci whole number sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,…) the shape borrowed from nature is most ingeniously and marvelously articulated. An abstraction of cold, mechanical numbers cannot hope to capture the grand, limitless beauty of art in the natural world that reveals itself in the swirl of a seashell in this piece. A sacred connection is made, patterns are discerned and a world of meaning is unveiled.. You’ll find the golden spiral in the nautilus shell, fiddlehead ferns, the growth of sunflower seed heads, a ram’s horns . . .

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2005 Grand National Invitation Quilt Exhibition Finalist, Airborne, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

In this quilt, I wished to create an ode to elegance and eloquence, flight and form, motion and nature’s designs for flight. A Canada goose stretches its wings and reaches its neck skywards, ascending in an endless sky: a wild blue yonder that perplexes, hypnotizes and lifts. Maple samaras float at the mercy of the wind. Superimposed, a whirling propeller spins our age-old dreams of flight and our longing to be airborne. The goose and winged seeds are our inspiration; the propeller mimics nature’s ingenious designs. A simple one-piece, hand-painted sky is used to emphasize the focal point - one of nature’s strongest flyers - a Canada goose in full flight. All but the propeller is heavily stitched to set it apart with a minimum of definition. This simplicity makes the propeller visible in the same nebulous way we sense the rotation of a spinning blade that renders barely visible to the eye. The human dimension of our own dreams of flight is juxtaposed here against the powerful and limitless beauty of nature.

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As guardians of northern waters, barometers of human pressure on our planet, harbingers of climate change, icebergs reveal no more than their majestic tips — we can only imagine what exists beneath the surface, knowing what we see is only a small part of the whole. Aurora borealis, ice and water offer a constantly shifting palette. The transient quality of Arctic blues is transformed when a single ray of light alters the depth of a colour.

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2006 Musuem of American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky, March through July 2006, part of exhibit of Canadian Quilts curated by Kathleen Bissett.
2005 Finalist, World Quilt & Textile Competition, Columbus, Ohio; Manchester, New Hampshire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara, California.
2004 Honorable Mention, Grand National Invitational Quilt Exhibition, Constructions of Canada, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Selected quilt for all official invitations and publicity.

Tucked away in a wooded gorge on Matheson’s Brook at Balmoral Mills, Nova Scotia, is a three-storey grist mill where wheat, oats and buckwheat are ground on granite stones and sifted, as they have been since Alexander McKay opened the mill in 1874. In early fall, after months of warm, dry weather, the brook no longer flows over the dam. At this time the mill has a particular splendour, especially when it is backlit by rich afternoon light filtered through the tree canopy. In this quilt I highlight the disparate elements that I like most — the eroding stone foundations, the mill wheel, the weathered logs of the dam and bridge, all overlaid by the ghostly shape of a granite millstone. Through this quilt I pay homage to a remarkable historical structure and to the stalwart people who have been part of it.

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A Byzantine castle at Kibbutz Yehiam in northern Israel inspired this fractured landscape quilt that shows a crumbling section of this mostly intact castle. A stone stairway leading to open air offers a glimpse of an ancient structure peppered with wild colourful weeds and shaded by arching tree branches.

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2004 Quilt Canada Juried Exhibition Finalist,Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA

On an increasingly fragile planet, Mother Earth struggles to sustain all living things. As the most creative but also destructive of creatures, we are entrusted with protecting the stability and longevity of life on our spinning globe. In the grand scheme of things, our lives are no more or less important than those of lowly insects. The earth has cradled mayflies for 180 million years - may they guard the earth for millions more.

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2005 World Quilt & Textile Competition Finalist, Columbus, Ohio; Manchester, New Hampshire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara, California.

Heather’s Wood celebrates a 25-year friendship and captures the rich and dynamic tapestry life of a woodland in the early morning light. A snake slips among the ferns while dragonflies, swallowtail and red admiral butterflies flitter in the oaks. This is a playful but profound exploration of biodiversity in all its natural glory.

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A fractured landscape quilt of Cabot Provincial Park on Prince Edward Island, CANADA in the late evening summer light reflects the natural beauty of the Maritime provinces.

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A round robin quilt is a collaborative effort. This quilt began with a floral centre block designed to pay homage to the celebrated American artist, Georgia O’Keefe, whose flower paintings are famous worldwide. M. McGregor and L. Whitman completed the outer edges of the quilt.

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