Katrina MacFarlane is a visual artist living and working in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. She makes mixed media works with paper, felt, feathers, paint, birchbark, and thread.

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Birchbark Love

Haven’t made much work over the last year but have a few projects on the go now - just completed a piece for a local show in Wolfville (detail: 2nd photo) and currently building a sculpture! Showing big love to the fruits of last summer’s wood supply!

Dissolve/Evolve

I’ve been picking away at a new bird series that has a little bit of everything; embroidery, painting, and pencil on coffee-dyed paper. This one has been a slow burn as there are so many other “life” things happening right now! I’ll be getting back to these little ones soon…

THINKS

That Sheer and Me

In September 2023, a curious thing happened with a sheer curtain that I had used to protect my lacinato kale during the summer months from the ravages of the cabbage moth. From the moment that sheer was washed and hit the clothesline at the end of the season, I became fascinated with its every move…it swayed, danced, and swooned, fashioning shapes out of the wind like I had never seen. It has captured my imagination, and my heart, like no other piece of fabric ever has or likely ever will.

 
Obsessed with the infinite beauty of this material…
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Went a little ham on this one…birch bark, acrylic paint on paper, thread, and for the first time (and likely not the last) SEQUINS! Once I started I couldn’t stop…ended up sleep deprived and sore from long bouts of sitting. Now ca
Okay…so it’s been almost a year since I’ve made anything (I know, awful, right?!) and on Friday night I wandered into the studio again (for the first time) and got SO deep into this project that I scarcely remembered to eat and sle
“Once an artist, always an artist”, right!?! This is not a new idea but as many artists have experienced, there are bunches of other “life” things that need to take precedence for periods of time which impact our ability to be
Detail from a piece in the Nishtique Collection called Compass from 2017. This was such a fun project where a ton of experimentation happened. I played with colour and shape without the weight of every piece being something special and a LOT of thing
Time for another reminder that art is everywhere…these are simply frozen, muddy puddles in lovely driveway potholes. And for all you cell geeks out there, do these not remind you of a Golgi apparatus?!!