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Last summer I collected mushrooms, flowers and leaves from my yard. This winter I've been dying wool with these natural wonders for a very special project. 

Here are some of the beautiful colourways I obtained by dying skeins successively in each dye bath.

Lobster mushrooms.

Zinnias.

Marigolds.

St. John's Wort flowers.

This is a bumper year for lobster (and other) mushrooms. I've been harvesting them and experimenting with creating colour.

I created this simultaneous photograph for the 25th Anniversary Art Show on Mayne Island sponsored by the Southern Gulf Islands Arts Council.

The black and white image is a photograph of me as a child. I remember the dress I'm wearing so clearly. My Mum made it for me.

The colour image is a photograph of the sky above the trees in our front yard on Pender Island and was taken last summer.

I love the dreamlike qualities of this image and how the lace collar of the dress works so perfectly with the clouds and also with the trees.

I'm looking rather quizically at the future, wondering what it will bring.

Sometimes the photographs we take capture unimagined secrets!

The Chorus, morse code weavings, is on exhibit again. This time at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery as part of my solo show Hanging By A Thread. The Illusion of Permanence.

On until May 26 at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery. What a beautiful gallery. I'm sharing the main gallery with Ines Tancre who creates intriguing photographs.

Here are a couple of photographs taken just before the opening reception started.

I've dyed some thread for my next war belt. I used chestnut, quebracho, myrobalan and marigold and saddened the colours with an iron afterbath. Now I'm waiting for this to "cure" before a final wash. One more week and then I can start work on Rachel Carson's War Belt.

Pender Island's sort of wearable art show - but so much more.

ZooIslander 2023 Highlights

I created a Moon costume for the Tarot runway. So much fun!

Five of my pieces of armour made from found objects are part of the Archipelago exhibit at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art.

In the main gallery are Dulce Et Decorum Est featuring salal leaves, Fight or Flight covered with found feathers and Expired made from plastic expiry tags.

In the back gallery, Sam Montalbetti's stunning photographs are flanked on the right by Empty Promises. The Politician's Armour. Before the Election and on the left by Broken Promises. The Politician's Armour. After the Election.

My installation What Once Was: The Apocalypse Is Now is part of this year's World of Threads Festival in Oakville, Ontario.