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Let us take a few minutes to show you through our work areas and describe how our concept of the Studios, and how we work in them, has evolved. The house is laid out at street level as a conventional small bungalow: living room, separate dining room, kitchen, two bathrooms and two bedrooms. A sun room and sun deck extend out on columns over the ravine off the dining room. However, below street level, excavated into the slope of Graham Creek ravine, there are three more bedrooms, a bathroom, two large storage spaces and a large family room with an outside entrance.
Since this is a virtual tour, once we set off from here you can a click on the tour's own navigation bar to leave the tour and return to the Studios' Enter page or Home page, go Back to the previous work area, Forward to the next work area, or Linger to see more of what's around you. When you are ready to move on, you can Rejoin the Tour from any work area or Restart the Tour to get back here. There will be fresh coffee and tea when you get back.
If you have any questions, please e-mail either of us through any Contact Us link.
Elaine was raised in the centuries old French-Canadian needlework tradition - literally. In her family the 'Receiving Set' for an expected newborn was handmade by a female relative and presented as part of the baby shower celebration. (Ultrasound examinations have simplified the equally traditional problem of colour choice.) Older children's bibs, aprons, washcloths, scarves, toques, mitts and warm stockings were usually hand made. Larger pieces of surplus material became the shells of new quilts, with worn flannels stitched in as the liner. Smaller and more attractive fabric pieces reappeared 'downsized' as new clothing and still later as rug braidings. The smallest remnants of cottons and towelings became small decorative pieces or the 'necessaries' of kitchen, nursery and bathroom.
John is a fourth generation decorative artist, family-trained as a woodworker in the nineteenth century British Arts & Crafts tradition. Ultimately, he wants to focus on the application of decorative techniques to fine woodworking and printmaking. However, as his drawing and design skills were not up to the task, he studied for five years with the Chinese artist Andy Lou. In the meantime most of his art and craft production has supported Elaine's establishment as a fabric artist.
And ..., with a lead like that, shall we go forward to the Fabric Arts areas of the Treetops Studios? Top up your mugs and bring them with you. Then click Forward on the navigation bar.
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Elaine Dendy e-laine@shaw.ca
John Oliver Dendy dendy@islandnet.com
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