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From May to October
Visit members of Aspotogan Arts and Crafts every
second Saturday at the Hubbards Barn for beautiful arts and crafts including
greeting cards.
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Members' Exhibition and SaleBlandford Community Centre, Open to the
public May 12-13, 10:00am – 5:00pm
For more details, please see the Events page.
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Peggy's Cove Area Festival of the Arts 2012
To be held from July 12 to 22, 2012. July 21 and 22 will be the Open Studio
Tour weekend where a number of AA&C art studios will be participating including
the Ocean Swells Community Centre in Nth West Cove which will become a gallery
for AA&C artists.
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Susan
Lord
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Artist Statement:
When she was a child, many homes had a large hooked mat by the front door for
muddy shoes or by the bed to keep your feet from hitting the cold floor when
getting up (before wall-to-wall carpeting). These mats were often in the 'hit
and miss' or 'log cabin' designs. In today's world, doormats can be purchased at
any department store and hooked mats have become beautifully crafted works of
art. Susan wanted to carry on the tradition of hooking the rag mats in the style
that many women of her mother's generation hooked.
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Contact Information
Fibre Artist
4956 Hwy 329, Blandford
Phone: 228-2848
sumarlea@hotmail.ca
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Title: Welcome
Medium: Fibre - Wool |
Title:
Felted Puffin On Driftwood
Medium:
Felted - Wool |
Title:
Tuna Flat Boats
Medium:
Fibre - Wool |
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Title:
Untitled
Medium:
Fibre - Wool |
Title: Chickadee Cosy
Medium: Felted -
Wool |
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Title: Hummingbird
Medium: Fibre - Wool |
Title:
Handbag
Medium:
Fibre - Wool |
Title:
Puffin
Medium: Felted -
Wool |
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Bio
Info
Susan lives in Blandford and
started hooking after she retired from Aliant in 2003. Her early hookings were
done with cotton and cotton/polyester blends in the straight line method which
was the traditional way of hooking in this area.
Susan now hooks with wool,
recycled and new, and dyes some of her own fabric. All of her hooked mats are
her own design and she has done several commissioned pieces.
Susan took a needle felting
workshop in 2009 and loved the images that could be created using wool fibre.
She then discovered 3-dimensional needle felting which led her to creating
felted birds which are then attached to pieces of driftwood collected from along
the shore. Susan is also an avid beach glass collector and makes beach glass
earrings, pendants and brooches. She loves photography and uses her own images
in her designs.
Susan
is also an active member of the Heritage Handwork group, the Blandford and Area
Historical Society, and a volunteer for the Marketplace of the Hooked Rug Museum
of North America in Queensland as well as other community organizations. |
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Awards
A
member of the Aspotogan Arts and Crafts group since 2004 and has won an
Excellence in Rug Hooking Award at their annual May Shows in 2004, 2005, and
2010.
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