Sharon Barfoot

I am an experimental artist. My work as a textile artist and printmaker re-evaluates materials with iconoclastic method. My materials of choice are botanical and mineral dyes, thread and stitch worked on natural materials. My work has been shown nationally and internationally, and most recently in Islamabad Pakistan, Mexico and Kyoto Japan. I am a past recipient of both a Canada Council grant and an Ontario Arts Council grant for my work in the arts.

My passion for arts has been fueled by over 35 years of working as a curator, publisher, artist, trainer, lecturer and as a designer in professional theatre. I reside in rural Ontario where the land is rich with materials for my work.

“Seeing what isn’t seen, or at least seeing things differently than they have been seen before is fundamentally what sends me to my studio.
I am moved and intrigued by a decayed surface, weathered rocks resting at the bottom of a riverbed and an unspoken thought that has the power to change the course of one’s life; these are the things that move me to create.”

E: sharonbarfoot@yahhoo.ca
IG: instagram.com/sharonzappha
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