created in joy
What I love most about weaving is that the joy lives in the process itself-- in the direct experience of the colours, the feel of the fibres in my hands, the calming rhythm of the movement. After nearly 20 years in culinary nutrition, where the outcome was the central focus of the experience, there’s a certain lightness in creating where the process is the outcome. And, of course, weaving is far more forgiving than a heavy hand with salt or overcooked broccoli.
intended for touch
The antidote to our increasingly digital, distracted and detached lives is working with our hands. Not pressing buttons on a glowing screen but feeling the 3D world around us- whether it is creating in the kitchen, with our hands in the soil, or creating with the softest, most luxurious fibers nature has to offer.
After 20 years passionately devoted to what I was making in my kitchen and growing in my garden, I've found my way back to my very first love — textiles.
connection to slow beauty
It feels familiar
I read somewhere a beautiful observation about the woven fabric. That it is part of who we are as humans. From the moment we are born through until the moment we leave this earth, we are wrapped in woven cloth of some kind. There's simply a warmth to it. A comfort and knowing.
Always one of a kind
No two weavings are ever truly the same. The handpsun and hand dyed yarn I most often use is always a little different, the tension of my warp will always vary a little. Weaving doesn't pretend to be perfect. The variations, the small irregularities are proof of a human being on the other end of it.
Felt before it's understood.
Weaving is one of the slowest art forms that exists. That slowness carries a message. To weave is to tell your nervous system: we are safe. That signal doesn't disappear when the work is finished. It lives in the cloth. When a handwoven tapestry hangs in your home, something in you recognizes it.
made with my whole heart
Every piece I make is built on colour — chosen with intention, sourced from small suppliers, worked with hands that are paying attention. The yarn, the texture, the vibrancy — none of it is accidental. I want you to smile when you see it. I want you feel the softness of it. I want the colour to land somewhere beneath the eyes and do something to your spirit — wake something up, stir something loose, remind you that beauty is allowed to be joyful. That is what I am making when I weave. Not just an object for your wall, but an invitation.
the artwork
Each piece is named and explained. None of that really matters. All that matters is that you find charm and joy in experiencing each one. And perhaps something here is calling to you.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
$360
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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
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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
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I have been making things with fabric and fibre since I was a child. I started sewing my own clothes at eight years old and never really stopped. That creative spark took me all the way through fashion school at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), where I earned my Bachelor of Applied Arts in Fashion and the University Gold Medal for the Applied Arts Department.
Life then pulled me into the world of food and wellness as I sought to understand and heal my own health challenges. I founded the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, wrote bestselling books including The UnDiet Cookbook (Taste Canada Gold Award winner!), and spent nearly two decades teaching, creating, and building a community I loved.
But as I began winding that chapter down, a quiet voice kept showing up: I just want to weave. I had a longing to step away from screens, slow down, and make something real with my hands.
So I listened.
Today I'm back where I started. A maker and artist, through and through. These days I am most often working at my loom in my Toronto studio and hosting The Courageous Pivot Podcast, where I talk with people who've had the courage to follow their own inner whisper.
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