Competitions & Work in Progress

Competitions

I'm happy to tell you that I am now your hostess for the Call for Entry page  at The Needle and Thread Network. Check it out, lots going on.

On that note, got some great news this morning. Our fibre art group The Northern Ontario Fibre Artists' entry “Seven Create” (see at the top right of this page) was juried into The Grand National, Kitchener, ON.

And personally, I had four pieces juried into the 8^th Annual Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition 2015 at the Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake.

Quite an exciting couple of days!

Work in Progress

This is what I have been working on and it is getting close to the finish stage.

Just wondering......do any of these blocks ring a bell? It's a few years old.  If yes, write me a note in the comments.

More later!

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network WIP Wednesday and Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Englehart Post Card Exhibit

The Englehart and Area Historical Museum hosted its second Juried Post Card Art Exhibit from July 17^th to August 3^rd.

Here are my 2 entries:

Northern Forest - sold during the Open House

Demoiselle

The Competition Standards were:

Art must be f4” x 6” postcard size

Art must be for sale

Art in any 2D medium

3D work with a depth no greater than 3/8”

Matted to 8” x 10” either landscape or portrait orientation

Mat to be white in colour

No framed works

Article and photo from The Temiskaming Speaker

June Simpson and her winning entry on the bottom - mine just happened to be above it.

Taking first place honours at the Postcard Exhibition hosted by the Englehart & Area Historical Museum is Kirkland Lake artist June Simpson standing beside her watercolour on yupo painting called “My Garden.” (Staff photo by Sue Nielsen)

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network WIP.

Happy stitching,

Terry

Fibre Content 2014

Yeh for us!

Four entries by the Northern Ontario Fibre Artists were juried into Fibre Content Show to be held September 9 – 16, 2014, at the Art Gallery of Burlington.

The following were accepted into the show:

Seven Create, a group project by all seven members of Northern Ontario Fibre Artists.

This project was a long time in the making and we are so happy to be able to share it again.

Seven Create by Northern Ontario Fibre Artists

Waste Not, Want Not. A beautiful bowl of recycled threads and fabric by Marie Black. 

See more of Marie's beautiful art on her Pinterest board My Art

Waste Not, Want Not by Marie Black

Ghost Ship – Ciudad de Inca, whole cloth, hand dyed by wicking, machine quilted by Terry Whyte

Ghost Ship - Ciudad de Inca by Terry Whyte

Escape to the Surreal, whole cloth, hand dyed by wicking, machine quilted by Terry Whyte

Escape to the Surreal by Terry Whyte

Linking to The Needle and Thread Network.  Have a look at what Canadian bloggers are up to.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

CQA Best of Show

A phone call last night, from Marnie, who was attending the CQA National Juried Show in St Catherines made my day!

The Northern Ontario Fibre Artists (NOFA) are very excited and honoured to have won Best of Show in the Canadian Quilters Association National Juried Show.

Here is our entry “Seven Create”. It measures 10 feet by 55 inches.

Seven Create

The members of NOFA are Marie Black, Silvia Bos, Jane Hughes, Marnie Mascioli, Kit Ormsby, Karen Pilch and Terry Whyte.

I blogged about “Seven Create” here if you are interested about how this project started and progressed to completion.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Three x 3

Three x 3 is a mixed media piece I made especially to enter in the 7th Annual Juried Contemporary Exhibit at the Museum of Northern History in Kirkland Lake, ON.  See previous post here. 

Three x 3

The theme was Nature’s Enduring Bounty and use of natural material was encouraged.

I used three techniques and made nine 5" x 7" canvases arranged on a 3 x 3 grid.

Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures of work in progress.

I started with pages from a book of poems which I gessoed and stained with coffee. 

I needed to glue the pages to muslin in order to be able to attach the natural branches.

When I applied the glue, the coffee stain (not waterproof) mixed with the glue and puddled on the paper. 

This was not the look I was going for but I thought it worked.

detail

First technique: 

I used real branches from my Linden tree and attached (couched?) them to my prepared background. 

The fabric was then wrapped around the canvases.

natural branches

Second technique: 

I reproduced the design of the branches by painting them on with acrylics.

painted - acrylics

Third technique:  

I made stamps from "fun foam" and stamped on the background.

stamped 

My background panel was then wrapped with a piece of my own hand-dyed muslin and the little canvases glued on.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network WIP Wednesday and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Contemporary Art Exhibition 2014

7^th Annual Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition 2014 is currently on display at the Museum of Northern History in Kirkland Lake until May 3rd.

Artists at all stages in their career were eligible and all disciplines welcome.

Theme: Nature’s Enduring Bounty and use of natural material was encouraged.

The guest artist was Cecilia Stelini from Brazil.

I had two pieces juried into this exhibit.

I made Three x 3 especially for this show. See my next post for more details.

Three x 3

 This is Renewal and there is more about it here.

Renewal

Here's a couple of sneak peeks that were sent out by the Museum prior to the Open House and included here with their permission.

My 2 pieces on left panel

more exhibits

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Tango is Back!

After a year of travelling.

Tango - 28" x 40"

Tango was a semi-finalist in the Quilt category of the Creativ Festival's 25^th SILVER anniversary 2012 Designer Style Challenge, Toronto.  I did not have a problem with this, I just did not know.

It came home last week.

I blogged about making it here. 

I obviously did not read the fine print very well, as I was totally unaware that the semi-finalist entries would remain with Janome for a year when I entered this challenge.

Note to self (and to anyone competing): READ THE FINE PRINT.

Part of the letter from Janome with my returned quilt said:

We have had the pleasure of showing your quilt around Canada at various consumer shows for the past year. In between shows it's been hanging in our office. I must tell you it has inspired many people! Well done!

Nice,huh?

I'm glad it's back.

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network and Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry