Chinook Arch Tapestry Jane Cameron
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Creature Tapestry Jane CameronE. Jane Cameron is an artist who shared many of my influences. She was born in High River, Alberta not far away from where I grew up. She spent part of her life living in Montreal. I was born there and my mother and her family came from there. I was lucky enough to have met Jane in Calgary. She was sunny, gracious and suprizing like her work.
Jane is another artist who lived with Down Syndrome. Her parents had been told to give her up and send her to an institution for the Mentally Retarded. They chose instead to educate her and to give her opportunity to blossom. Jane ended up becoming a well known and accomplished textile artist and poet. Her work hangs in the Prime Minister's office, in the Mirabel Airport, and in collections all over the world.
Jane Cameron is known for bright colors and joyful imagery in her tapestries . Her characters are lovely, open and other worldly. Her subject matter is based on her surroundings and is totally influenced by her feelings.
Her poems are clear and immediate and reflect to us something understandable and primal.
My Imagination Jane Cameron
My imagination is so many things,
Goes Around,
on and on , is like a spinning wheel
It goes siggidi-sagg.
different or the opposite with those colors,
Inside a spinning wheel
If you see a spinning wheel,
something to do with the handicrafts
with the different colors of wool....
Mine too Jane!
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