Tam Harrington
Tam Harrington Location – Sechelt Wearable art garments from found objects. Found object sculpture.
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Vanessa Sparrow
Vanessa Sparrow Location: Powell River Website: sparrowfelt.com Instagram: sparrowfelt Vanessa is a textile artist working in the qathet region. Her felted vessels incorporate natural fibres such as silk, flax and paper, and use the malleability of wool to play with form and texture in surprising ways. She also teaches felt-making in her home studio.
Yeonmi Kim
Yeonmi Kim Website – kimyeonmi.com Location – Powell River Yeonmi Kim is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Powell River. Yeonmi finds inspiration anywhere and with any material. Her recent work includes sewstainability, a series using recycled fabrics and plastic packaging addressing climate change and sustainable art practice. From recycled wood, metal and found objects to
Kim Hadley
Kim Hadley Location – Gibsons Website – kimizone.com Kim Hadley is a basket maker, located in Gibsons, BC. The baskets and birdhouses are inspired by local flotsam & jetsam found on beaches, backyards, and beyond. Each piece is hand crafted and unique. The baskets are created using a coiled technique, with pine needles as the
Joan Barrington – Barrington Brolly
Joan Barrington – Barrington Brolly Location – Gibsons Website – barringtonbrolly.com Joan Barrington – Barrington Brolly Joan Barrington, owner of Barrington Brolly, turned an early fascination for umbrellas, and hand-held parasols, into a very unique, niche-market business. Using her educational background in marketing-management, and business administration, Joan is now providing a service to a list
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Satu Farrar-Brampton
Satu Farrar-Brampton Location – Gibsons West Coast Mermaid Designs. Natural textiles art inspired by the sea. I make fish puppets, mermaid dolls, starfish, Native art wall hangings, mobiles, and various Christmas ornaments.
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Louise Valentine & Brian Provencher
Location – Gibsons Website – valentinesilks.com Valentine Silks. Working as a team, Louise and her husband Brian create soft sculptures of wearable art using “shibori” a Japanese method of resist dyeing.
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Ursula Bentz
Ursula Bentz Location – Gibsons Gibsons artist, art textiles, dyed silks, shibori silks, felted wool hats and bags, floral wool sculptural neckpieces, wearable art dresses, felted wool garments and wearable art garments.
Sew Easy
Sew Easy Location – Sechelt Website – seweasy.ca At Sew Easy Sechelt you will find a lovely selection of quilting cottons, home decor and fashion fabrics, Pfaff sewing machines and a great selection of yarns and notions. We also carry books about a variety of fibre topics, for skill levels from beginner to expert. We