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Vortex Rising

Inspired by my time exploring red rock country and the magic energy of those spiralling up vortexes. I was enchanted by the colours - those layered desert canyons in every shade of rust, ember, and ochre. The texture just kept building as I went, loops on loops, spilling right off the edges. There was no keeping this one contained, which felt like exactly the point.

Materials: Variety of wool (including yarn from my mother-in-law's vintage collection). Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size: 43" x 35" (including dowel to bottom of fringe)

$3,800

First Bloom

Anyone who lives through a long winter knows the moment the first colour shows up — it feels like a miracle for the senses. We made it! That's what this one is. Lots of quiet white space, and then the colour arrives like a burst of renewed energy. I loved weaving the contrast between the calm and the warm celebration. This is the hope that no matter how dark and cold it may feel, we can always count on the first blooms to arrive with the light.

Materials: 100% wool with a touch of cotton woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size: 37" x 35" (including dowel to bottom of fringe)

$2,200

Moon Radiance

The follow-up piece to Solar Radiance, because the sun shouldn't get all the credit. A stack of tumbling geometric shapes against a deep cobalt blue, woven flat in a more traditional tapestry style. Truly one of my favourites for the bold, clean lines and the vivid cheeky colours. It had me thinking about how the moon doesn't make its own light; it just reflects everything back beautifully.

Materials: 100% mohair wool woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel. 

Size: 17" x 46"

$1,800

Wild Yonder

Similar warm heart at the centre as Yonder Aglow, but here I went the whole shebang landscape and let it expand out just as nature tends to when we get out of the way. The whole yonder field is radiating superpowers, every hue going at once, edge to edge. If Yonder Aglow is the fire held in, the Wild Yonder is what happens when you let it out. Shazaaaam.

Materials: 100% mohair woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size: 17" x 22.5"

$588

Sweet Somethings

We call them sweet nothings, but I've always thought the small gestures are the real something. This little weaving is exactly that: flecks of colour, cuttings from other weavings, scattered through soft white, gathering depth as you move down. A sweet something for the spot that needs a little warmth.

Materials: 100% mohair wool woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size:  8" x 10"

$80

Full Expression

Like in yoga, when the guide says 'the full expression of the pose'. We also say this when our child is in flow. Well, the same applies to our own multi-dimensional spirits. This is all about the texture and contrast in between darkness that invites the light to speak and sparkle. It is all part of our full expression.

Materials: Variety of natural yarns, all 100% soft mohair or 100% cotton. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 16" x 34" 

$560

Broad Expanse

This piece is in charge and she knows it! A larger scale than most of my work (see dimensions), this one is bold and broad strokes of vibrant hues cut through by a 3-dimensional element. The shapes and leaps in alignment of the stripes highlight that our path is never quite what we expect with with awakened awareness we can sense the subtle shifts and keep moving forward on the journey. 

Materials: 100% wool mohair. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 40" x 28"

$1,100

Joy Riot

An exploration of geometrics and angles, using the softest mohair you won't be able to keep yourself from touching. I love the boldness of the bright colours on the grey backdrop. It reminds me of the rainbow of flowers bursting out in what is generally a grey Spring where I live.

Materials: 100% wool mohair woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 16 inches x 33 inches

$422.00 - SOLD

Magenta Moon

Weaving circles and blending colours is not the natural flow on a loom but it creates a beautiful little puzzler of the mind that invites some time to simply look. This piece includes the addition of texture through emballage, a wrapping technique that lends 3-dimensional form.

Materials: 100% wool mohair woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size:  16" x 23" 

$388 - SOLD

Heart Core

A swirling, spiralling mass of texture highlighted the quiet white surrounding scattered with tiny colour marks. It's a galaxy, a storm system, and also exactly what is in our own heart core. The white space is abundant with flecks and dashes of colour and a mix of natural textured yarns, like seeds or sparks or the electrical currents that emanate from our heart centre, our core.

Materials: Variety of natural yarns, all 100% soft mohair or 100% cotton. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 16" x 23"

$410 - SOLD

Lively Up

Woven up north in the deep freeze of a Northern Ontario winter, surrounded by the glowing brightness of five feet of snow, the colours were bursting out! It is not anymore complicated than that. The warmth of the ultra soft cotton yarn mixed with a few lighter wools, this weaving felt like the lightness and brightness of summer, created in the depths of winter.

Materials: 100% cotton with a tinkle here and there of 100% wool from my mother-in-laws vintage yarn collection. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 9" x 20" 

$380 - SOLD

Solar Radiance

There is much to love in this piece that weaves geometrics together in what my girlfriend cited as a 'cheeky' palette. I don't know why I loved that descriptor so much, but I do. To me, I think of the geometric rainbows cast when the sun shines through crystal at just the right angle-- right down to the little glimmers of silver threaded here and there.

Materials: 100% wool mohair, with 100% cotton white/black speckled background. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 17" x 24" 

$488 - SOLD

Real Yonder

My son has declared this his favourite because 'it is something real'. In a world of artifice and performative living, it is sweet to create and gaze 'over yonder' to something that is so clearly inspired by the flow of what lives and breathes in our world. This weaving is both simple and layered with subtle texture, various techniques and the essential bonus of some fluorescent pink blooms.

Materials: Variety of natural yarns, all 100% wool or 100% cotton. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 16" x 23.5" 

 $420 - SOLD

Small Wonder

An exploration of shape and texture, this small wonder evolved into a meandering landscape. The pink and cobalt add the perfect surprise amongst the jewel tones and will no doubt highlight other surprise contrasts that make the imperfections of life just right. This is the perfect piece for that little nook that needs just a little warmth and wonderment

Materials: 100% merino wool with some wrapped cotton cord. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size: 8" x10.5"

$72 - SOLD

Deep Time

Originally begun as a sample to be used in a photoshoot, I just kept building on the layers without a plan, looking only at shapes, patterns and, of course, harmonizing with an unexpected colour palette. The rhythm began to emerge and with it, I saw the layers of our sweet earth and how it shifts in density with the passage of time. 

Materials: 100% wool mohair. Woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel

Size: 14" x 24"

$410 - SOLD

Mixtape

This one is woven entirely from leftover lengths from past pieces, all compiled into one. A mixtape of my first year of weaving. Every colour in here was part of something else, which I think makes it even better.

Materials: Wool and cotton woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size:  8" x 10"

SOLD $80

Silver Lining

Woven during a time when I was supporting a family member through surgery and recovery, I pulled the brightest and finest yarns in my collection and wove the intricate details as a reminder of the joyful moments we can find even in the most trying times. I ran the threads of silver sparkle right through the middle. This being the glimmer that shows up in the thick of things. Small piece, full volume.

Materials: Cotton with a little wool and silver sparkle, woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size:  8" x 10"

SOLD $290

Yonder Aglow

While weaving this one, I went down a rabbit hole on the idea of inner fire. In Tibetan Buddhism, it's called tummo, which translates to "fierce woman". A molten centre of reds, corals and magentas, held in a calm cream field. We're not the raging fire kind of vibe around here, but more of a sustainable, powerful glow. That's how we make it last.

Materials: Mohair wool woven on 100% cotton hung on Canadian soft wood dowel.

Size: 16" x 23"

SOLD $488