Current Projects

BUTTERFLY PROJECT NUMBER 42

On February 22, 2007 I opened a show in the Palm House at the Conservatory of Assiniboine Park. The show  features  large to tiny glass butterflies flying and perched throughout the greenery, a total of 111 butterflies. This show is meant to draw attention to the Friends of the Conservatory project to raise funds for a butterfly house at the Park. All the pieces will be for sale and a percentage of that sale will benefit the butterfly house. A butterfly house is such a good idea for our cold winters, Mother and I have visited a couple of these around the world and I wanted to find a way to support this project. So, I hope you will visit, it should be magical and a great place to get out of the cold. All the pieces will remain in place until March 21st at that time the pieces that have sold will be allowed to fly away . The Friends of the Conservatory have  decided to leave the butterflies up permanently which probably means that I will be creating new ones as the pieces are sold.

I used this project as an opportunity to introduce three students from Churchill High School to glass. They came to the studio once a week to shed a little blood and work at creating their own butterflies.

Many thanks to  the Manitoba Arts Council for a Crafts Grant which I received in support of the project.

Number 42 refers to Douglas Adams "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" in which the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything was Number 42.

Recent Activities

 The Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art, Laurel Reuter,  invited me to do a solo show in their gallery from November 20, 2005 through to January 15, 2006. This is a large gallery filled with natural light in a beautifully redesigned building on the campus of the University of North Dakota. For a number of years, I have had an association with this gallery, organizing the Winnipeg submissions for their yearly January auction and have developed a great deal of respect for the artistic eye and organizational ability of the Director. The web site for North Dakota Museum of Art is http://www.ndmoa.com/
 The work I  created for this show was an eclectic mix,from stained glass panels and a large folding sandblasted screen to smaller kiln worked and fused pieces. I  created examples of all the different techniques I have learned from working with glass for the last 20 years and the show was very well received. My piece, "Maintenance Free Aquarium "was purchased to become part of the collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

My largest stained glass project was to design, build and deliver all the windows for the sanctuary and entry of St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Rochester, Minnesota, a total of 253 windows and well over 1000 square feet of stained glass. I designed all the windows at the beginning of the project and when the congregation collected funds for each set of windows they would let me know it was time to start building. This whole project took six years and was completed in April 2001. To view these windows, go to the web site for the church at http://www.stlukesepiscopal.org/ and follow the ‘Stained Glass’ link.

I designed and constructed a number of stained glass projects for private homes from my home studio in Riverview, Winnipeg. I have been experimenting with different techniques of kiln and flame worked glass and have created work for sale in galleries in Winnipeg and the United States.

In December 2004, I joined three other glass women for a show at ‘The Lion and the Rose’ Gallery.

 In April 2006 I did a show at Adelaide McDermott gallery with Violetta Miramon, we collaborated on a number of pieces that marry clay and glass.

In May 2004, I was privileged to attend the Glass Arts Society conference in New Orleans where I was able to take part in a number of workshops.