Image: At the opening, Huronia Museum, May, 2013
In Elisabeth Bacque’s new series, Pioneer Women and Paper Patchwork 2013/2024, she departs from traditional painting in oils and acrylics to use collage and mixed media to celebrate the courage and achievements of thirteen Canadian women pioneers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired by early patchwork quilts with their intricate and colourful patterns, she uses paper images, birch bark, old letters, journals, maps and recipes instead of fabric to tell their fascinating stories.
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2023 I would like to honour two Canadian women pioneers separated in time by a century, with my miniature watercolour portraits and mixed media…
Nahneebahweequay In 1860, a courageous Ojibwe (Mississauga) woman, Nahneebahweequay, or “Nahnee”, Catharine Sutton in English, crossed the Atlantic, to present important land claims in person to Queen Victoria at Buckingham…
Georgian Bay Quilters Guild With Elisabeth Bacque 2012
Location: Midland Public Library, Date: 10/24/12
Local artist Elisabeth Bacque, will be giving a talk to the Georgian Bay Quilters Guild on Wednesday, October 24 at 7:00pm in the Assembly Room at the Midland Library. The subject will be her latest series Pioneer Women and Paper Patchwork in which she incorporates ideas from quiltmaking into pieces honouring twelve pioneer Canadian women.
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Past Artwork
The series of paintings Gardens and Scarecrows was first shown in the Civic Garden Centre in Toronto. Interesting visual metaphors emerge in the scarecrows: in France, a roadside cross or calvaire; in Quebec, a sorceress; in Poland, a victim; and in the United States, a makeshift war grave.
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NORTH SIMCOE – Looking out the window of the 100-year-old former boathouse that serves as her studio overlooking Georgian Bay, it’s plain to see where Elisabeth Bacque gets her inspiration.