2016 Studio Tour

Save the dates: on July 30 and 31, artists will invite you to visit their studios, and will also show their work at the Saturna Café and the Saturna Lodge, on sunny Saturna Island, BC.

Colourful Opening

Cool and grey outside + warm and colourful inside! That sums it up very nicely yesterday's goings on in the Saturna Point Store gallery... 

The ArtSaturna Spring Show opening was well-attended and gallery goers came to have a good look at the work of featured artist Donna-Fay Digance, and several other artists.

 

 
The exhibit will be on display until the end of April, so those of you who missed it, or would like to have another look at a piece (or two) have a window of opportunity.

Resurfacing

                      

Donna-Fay Digance 

This is the second piece of fibre art in a series called 'Resurfacing' which depict glacial erratics with communities of lichens and moss. I pass these glaciated boulders on my morning walks on Payne Road on Saturna and am fascinated with their size, variety of textures and many faceted planes.
In life, we too, resurface and change many times.
I started with many photos at different angles and printed some on Pima cotton to use as part of my collage.
I painted the sky on cotton, used dyed silk, commercial fabrics, printed images on cotton, and made confetti fabric by fusing tiny bits on fusible web.  From these fabrics, I created a collage with many shapes overlapped and stitched together including a flannel centre and cotton backing to create a quilt ‘sandwich’. The surface is densely stitched with many layers of machine and free motion embroidery. This dense thread ‘painting’ or drawing forms new colours, textures, lines and details.
Finally, I used Lumiere Metallic Paint to add highlights and further texture.
The artwork is mounted on a custom made, open box frame.

I’m printing a smaller version of this finished image on Pima Cotton to mat and frame as prints.