I’m excited to announce that I have been invited to talk about my process and share my work at this year’s summer hooking social in the Toronto area.
Hooking Up Saturday July 8th with Vanessa Neily is a one-day event designed to inspire creativity in your own practice. Spend the day hooking, making connections and enjoying an artist-led talk about the creative process of small-scale rug hooking from blind contour sketching, developing collage designs and translating lines and strokes of colour through rug hooking.Vanessa Neily is a multidisciplinary craftsperson from Ottawa, ON. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, she holds a BFA specializing in jewellery design & metalsmithing with self-taught study in rug hooking. Inspired by the gestural qualities of sketching and painting, her work translates this quick expressiveness to the characteristically slower, more controlled craft materials of vitreous enameling and rug hooking. The complementary pairing of materials has become a unique trademark of Vanessa’s studio jewellery and contemporary wall art pieces.Set amongst the rolling hills of the Caledon countryside in a tented outdoor studio, you will have the chance to browse and shop exclusive wool fabrics, yarns, and fibres in the Martina Lesar Hooked Rug Studio.Pack up a boxed lunch and bring along either a new piece to start or a project-in-progress to work on for the day. Enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and treats under the tents.
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