WELCOME TO SIMONE ELIZABETH SAUNDERS' SITE
*NATIONAL WINNER* 2020
Canada's BMO 1st Art Competition
"It Matters" 2020
Fibre Art
Fibre art exploring different crafts and technologies: hand-woven, silkscreened, jacquard, digital and rug-hooking.
Visual Art
Hand drawn pieces of varied mediums: printmaking, coloured pencils, acrylic and collage.
Designs
Patterns designed for Fabrics and Wallpaper. Please get in touch to learn more about color schemes, alterations and / or custom designs.
Artist
Simone Elizabeth Saunders is a Canadian artist. She is primarily a textile artist, using a unique tool called a tufting gun. Integrating the gun with punch needle, Simone creates hand-tufted textiles of colorful portraiture celebrating womanhood that is rooted in a rich and vibrant Black history.
Simone is an award-winning artist, including the Bank of Montreal's National 1st! Art Competition, as the National Winner of 2020. She graduated with honors from the Alberta University of the Arts in May 2020. Other awards in 2020 include the Alberta University of the Arts’ Board of Governors’ Graduating Student Award for Fibre, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery Award for Academic Achievement and the Surface Design Associations Outstanding Student Award. Recently Simone has been featured in Canada's House&Home Magazine, CBC Arts, "What're You At?" with Tom Power, CBCq, CBC Radio One, Booooooom, Galleries West and much more.
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