Let your creativity flow with Pop-up Painters. Transform a blank canvas into a majestic snowy trees painting! Guided tutorial and supplies will be provided. Registration is required. Ages 8 and up.

This program is made possible with support from Friends of the Ottawa Public Library.

Paint me a Picture workshop is part of Emerald Plaza’s Holiday Open House. Throughout the day enjoy light refreshments, make holiday gift supplies at our crafting table, and play Chocolate Bar Bingo in the afternoon.

Join us at our new yarn club!

Knitters, crocheters, needle workers, rug hookers – all are welcome to socialize with fellow yarn crafters and work on their latest project.

Drop-in program.

Wendy will present an overview of making inks from local plants, some basic recipes, examples of botanical inks used in her art and Artist Books and references for further exploration.

After the presentation, participants are invited to a Q and A, to try the palette of inks hands-on and to a ‘show and tell’ about her art. 

A handout about using botanical inks on paper and textiles will be provided.

English adult event.  Registration required as space is limited.

About Wendy

Wendy lives in Ottawa in the boreal eco zone. She creates painted, printed and stitched art textiles, papers and artist books on mostly botanical themes.

Her work is inspired by the beautiful landscapes and plant life, both wild and cultivated, of this rugged region of Canada.

"Working with nature as a gardener and as an artist is one of my life’s chief constants and consolations.  My printed and stitched textiles and papers, like scrolls, become botanical records of plants and their environments in every season."

Her basic method is to print and stitch on textiles and papers, embroidering by hand and machine with the intention to build up layers of coloured marks to express feeling and concept with line, colour and texture.

As well as painting marks on substrates with acrylics or natural dyes, she uses eco printing, a monotype process that applies pigments from plants, soils and minerals directly from plants onto natural fibers.

Printing and dyeing with native plants from her garden and foraged from the local environment have become Wendy's special interest.

She has published internationally about eco printing, gives occasional classes and presentations and document all aspects of her art adventures in her blog “Threadborne"

Instagram @wendy_feldberg
West End Studio Tour
Ottawa Art Gallery
www.oaggao.ca/galerie-annexe

Celebrate Family Literacy Day 2024 virtually with author Barbara Reid!

Join us at Rockcliffe Park for this hybrid virtual event with illustrator and author Barbara Reid.  Barbara will show you her unique techniques in using clay to create an illustration, as she does in her books.

We will provide the clay and tools for you to create your own clay illustrations. 

The event will end with a Q&A.

Thursday, 25 January, 4:30pm – 5:15pm

Ages 6-12 yrs, English, Registration required

To put holds on any of her books, click here

Here is an video on CBC Book Club with Barbara Reid (1m 43s)