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Eileen Field
Port Hardy BC

• Born in Lancashire, England, 1949

• Art education at the local art school in Wigam and then Liverpool where received teaching certificate

• Since 1970, taught art in secondary school firstly in England, then in Belize in Central America, finally in Canada

• Retired from teaching in 2005 in order to devote time to her own art work

• Presently working in mixed media and fabric pieces and acrylic paints

"I like to work with many different materials creating different surfaces; handmade papers, fabric, thread, found objects, fallen leaves, the patterns of nature, fragments of memory, of journeys – real and imagined, which I piece together to form my compositions. Sometimes a line of poetry inspires a composition, sometimes a place, the surface of a shell. Like my mixed media pieces, my acrylic paintings are a response to my surroundings – my garden – clouds, a tidepool."

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Eileen Field with visitors from Gouda, Holland who purchased Eileen's small painted poppy chair.