705-878-5231 wild.marshall@sympatico.ca
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, in Textile Design, (1981) and Fleming College, (1994) Jane Wild has taught art courses at Harbourfront Craft Studios in Toronto and Fleming College in Lindsay. Jane is a past president of ' Surfacing: Textile Dyers and Printers of Ontario' and a past executive board member for the Ontario Crafts Council. She is currently living in Lindsay and working with the Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives.
"I work from a back ground in traditional fibre arts
-working in tapestry, needlework weaving and spinning.
The language of fibre, its history as a humble craft and
domestic echoes inspire me. I want to take that language
and use it in new ways to tell a new story. Antique
quilts are all about stories - the stories of the people
who wore the fabric - the hand of the woman who pieced it
together - the tracery of the quilt stitching is yet
another story - a subtext"