Winged Migration: A Group Show at Bookhou

I am thrilled to tell you about an upcoming group show I will be part of in Toronto this summer.  The show opens at bookhou June 29 and runs through the month of July.  It is called "Winged Migration" and will feature birds by me, Gennine Zlatkis, Margaret Oomen, Arounna Khounnoraj, and Abigail Brown.  I'm thrilled to have my birds side by side with the work of these talented women artists! 

For the show I wanted to make some bigger birds in wool felt that stay true to the kinds of toys I've been making in the past few months.  I chose to focus on penguins because I love the penguin pattern from The Artful Bird and I thought it would be really neat to set them up all together, like a family, inviting the people who visit the gallery to imagine a narrative between them. 

I changed their eyes from embroidered eyes to halved felted wool balls.  There are three adult penguins, two chicks and three eggs. 

If you are able to be in Toronto in July, Geninne is teaching at workshop at Bookhou on making your own handcarved stamps!  What a fantastic opportunity. You can sign up right here!