Enticing people to come to the library is always a goal for any public library. To encourage this, Otonabee-South Monaghan Libraries are offering to display local and county artists’ work. ‘Art in the Library’ began in the fall of 2017, with month long displays and artist-in-residence sessions with artists demonstrating their craft in person.
'Art in the Library' - Keene Public Library
from Saturday, October 27, 2018, until January 19, 2019
Keene Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 12:00 to 8:00 pm, Saturday 11:00 to 4:00 pm.
Displaying at the Keene Library is artist Chris Barker.
Born in Great Britain, Chris Barker has enjoyed working with fibre from an early age, whether embroidery, cross stitch, macrame, weaving, sewing, or knitting. She has also experimented with making batik fabric for sewing projects and hand dying wool for knitting.
Chris has been making fabric art since 2004, starting with quilted landscape wall hangings. Mostly self-taught she enjoys experimenting with different fabrics, yarns and techniques to make an original art piece. Nature and landscape scenes lend themselves well to collage, but she has also done houses, gardens and figures.
Most of her work is framed fabric collages behind glass. In some pieces she uses special wooden frames without glass to accentuate the texture and beading. She uses mostly cotton batiks but has used silks, yarns, lace and netting to great effect.Besides fabric collages, she has done numerous children's play quilts, kits, and cards.
She sells her work each year at the Fibre Arts Festival (March) in Peterborough and at the Canoe Museum.
Born in Great Britain, Chris Barker has enjoyed working with fibre from an early age, whether embroidery, cross stitch, macrame, weaving, sewing, or knitting. She has also experimented with making batik fabric for sewing projects and hand dying wool for knitting.
Chris has been making fabric art since 2004, starting with quilted landscape wall hangings. Mostly self-taught she enjoys experimenting with different fabrics, yarns and techniques to make an original art piece. Nature and landscape scenes lend themselves well to collage, but she has also done houses, gardens and figures.
Most of her work is framed fabric collages behind glass. In some pieces she uses special wooden frames without glass to accentuate the texture and beading. She uses mostly cotton batiks but has used silks, yarns, lace and netting to great effect.Besides fabric collages, she has done numerous children's play quilts, kits, and cards.
She sells her work each year at the Fibre Arts Festival (March) in Peterborough and at the Canoe Museum.
