Jayne Willoughby Scott        

		I am pleased to introduce to you my friend and colleague, Jayne Willoughby Scott. I first encountered Jayne when I was working on a research project about women who had made breast cancer quilts. I was impressed by her moving artwork, as well as her passionate and articulate description of her frustration over her ill friend's experience of dealing with an insensitive healthcare system. I have learned that Jayne often uses her work to make sense of her world. And, as you will
see, she does not hesitate to speak out about important issues. Her spirit and her passion are evident in all her work. Her willingness (should I say drive) to experiment with unusual materials is a delight. As she explores how one perceives and experiences objects in space and over time the transience of perception is revealed.Jayne usually begins a series of images with ideas about materials and techniques. With layering, distortion and abstraction the images evolve. Jayne's most recent abstract quilted works include materials such as beads, yarns, paint, foil, drawing materials and found fibre materials. She began exhibiting textile art nationally and internationally in 1990. She has won numerous awards for colour, design and workmanship. Her work has appeared in many publications. She is a highly regarded teacher and judge. Jayne completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art and Design at the University of Alberta in 2001.In May 2004 as Artist in Residence for Quilt Canada, she will be conducting gallery talks at the National Juried Show. I hope you will enjoy seeing Jayne's work. - Mary Holdgrafer. Please click on these thumbnails to see the enlargements:

"Picking Up The Pieces"

"Hammock View"

"Solitude Before Eight"

"Last Night I Heard The Screaming"

"After high school I had wanted to pursue art at university, but was deterred by my adolecent insecurities and the practical need to be able to support myself. I ended up becoming a nurse and nurse educator and pursued my artisitc interests in my free time by taking courses in a variety of different mediums. As a new mother in 1988 the opportunity arose for me to take some quilting classes with a friend and I very quickly saw that quilting as an art medium had a lot of potential for me. Though I learned traditional quilt making techniques, I have never been able to finish a bed quilt! It was through my early quilt classes that my earlier need to express myself visually and through art was reawakened and nurtured.

I approach the working process quite playfully and it is this playfulness that allows me to experiment with materials. I like to ponder different uses of materials that I come across in my day-to-day life and seem to accumulate around me - things that others might see as garbage and discard (like dryer lint, which is a current obsession). While at art school I became known for collecting the "cast-offs" of other students - their unfinished paintings, bits of discarded canvas and paper and dried paint. I also admit to going through the garbage on occasion to find materials which could eventually be used in a piece of art. I often wonder where this all comes from. I remember bringing home "treasures" from the neighbors' garbage as a kid, so it must have all started back then. I also wonder if this has become a way of thinking about art when I am engaged in the non-art activities of motherhood, household activities, etc. I see art everywhere and in almost everything.

I see each of my pieces of art as a "meditation". Each represents a study of something, rumination about the materials, ideas for future projects, and ruminations about personal or social issues of concern to me at that time. It is the solitude and the repetition of making stitches and marks on paper, canvas, fabric or whatever materials I am working with which allows for the quiet sifting of thoughts and free flow of ideas."




Quilt Art Rockies 2005 -
Jayne Willoughby Scott held two workshops:
Reflections: Different Ways of Seeing

Explore design concepts related to realism, abstraction & semi-abstraction with the human figure, an object, or a landscape as the subject matter. Easy drawing techniques & design exercises will help learn how to simplify the subject matter. Designs will result in fabric studies or a larger quilt top.

Food and Fabric!

After quilting, what do quiltmakers like most? This 3 day workshop will use food as the subject for exploration of design concepts related to composition, space & positive & negative shapes. Simple paper collage exercises will be developed into several small fabric studies & a larger quilt top.

More information:
http://www.thesugarpine.com/quiltart/Jayne_Willoughby_Scott.htm

Quilt Art Rockies is sponsered by The Sugar Pine Company in Canmore, Alberta. Read all about it on their website: http://www.thesugarpine.com/quiltart/QuiltArtRockies%20Homepage.htm


Also: Jayne exhibited in the Alberta Craft Council's "In Our Own Backyard", October 2nd - November 27th, 2004

See too Jayne's piece in the online exhibition "Alberta Seen - Landscapes in Fibre", titled "I Have Seen The Wind Two" - on the Alberta Craft Council website.

Read more soon about the Quilt Canada 2006, which will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, from May 21st - 28th, 2006.




You can reach Jayne Willoughby Scott by email - scott@incentre.net