I love to challenge myself by exploring new art medium combinations and breaking traditional rules. My work begins with exploring various materials’ properties through manipulation and defining my personal connection to the material. Using intuitiveness to create my unique artwork, I strive for interesting visual interplay between texture, colour, and shadow.
In my current work, I play with hardness versus softness: the softness of the material, whether it is paper or fabric, versus the hardness of the encaustic medium. I find the unique merging of mediums intriguing and creatively satisfying.
BIOGRAPHY
Nancy Yule is a self-taught artist and lives in Cambridge, ON. Her artwork was recently published in Incite: Dreams Realized, The Best of Mixed Media published by North Light Books. She was honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of the 2012 Textile, Fibre and Quilting Arts Award in the Arts Awards Waterloo Region, Kitchener ON.
In 2013 her work was shown at Box 13, in Kitchener and a the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. In 2012, her art pieces were exhibited at The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Memento mori and at The Gallery Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Quiet Zone, Common Thread International Exhibition. In 2011, her work was exhibited in the Hard Twist: Obsession exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto ON. In 2010 at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts she had a solo exhibition entitled, “Random Acts of Stitchery” and was in traveling exhibition entitled Masterworks Southwest, Ontario Craft Council Juried Exhibition.

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