Prints, Pots, Threads: Art Exhibit
Prints, Pots, Threads
Art Exhibit featuring Angela Costello, Sue Lyon and Phillida Hargreaves
Opening Reception: Saturday August 9th, 2025, from 1pm to 4pm – no entry fee
Art will be showcased from August 1st to September 2nd, 2025
About the Exhibit
These three artists have created an intriguing space within Hotel Wolfe Island that balances their different styles and mediums. The effect is a visual and textural feast that invites the viewer to take some time to appreciate the commonalities and contrasts between prints, pots and threads.
Angela Costello – Artist’s Statement
I am a printmaker who creates limited-edition original silkscreen prints. Inspired by my fascination with animals and environments, both domestic and wild, I compose my images on paper with ink, applied colour by colour, layer on layer using photo stencil-silkscreen printing techniques. My most recent prints are expressions of my enduring interest in feline movement and attitude. I have combined quirky colours, bold lines and unusual textures to make compositions of graceful, daring and comical cats dancing in a tangle of dynamic lines. In tandem with my feline projects, I collect, through photography, elements from the forest and compose these splendid patterns, textures, values and lines into abstract black and white collages. These images I developed through collage have informed my next series of prints through which I will explore how colour alters meaning and mood. My practice as a printmaker spans over 35 years and I have enjoyed being a part of the Kingston arts community as an artist, arts educator and exhibition manager.
Sue Lyon – Artist’s Statement
I found my love of clay in West Yorkshire, UK. In 1990 we emigrated to Kingston, Canada, where I joined the Potters’ Guild (President 1996-1999).
I have exhibited in galleries in Ontario and Vancouver, also in Kingston at the Women’s Art Festival, Potters’ Guild, many studio tours since 1993, and an Autumn Art Exhibition. I participate annually in OKWA shows (President in 2016-2018).
Over the years I have made dinner sets, supplies for restaurants and my pots have been shipped to other continents.
In my purpose-built studio, I teach and create both functional and sculptural pieces. Teaching has given me the joy of seeing several students become professional potters.
Phillida Hargreaves – Artist’s Statement
As a fiber artist, I use the textural qualities of fabric and yarn to create a visceral and tactile connection to the world around me.
I use recycled and commercial cloth which I alter with dye, rust, paint and print. I build my pieces layer by layer and add extra dimensions with sheers, yarn and thread. I prefer to work in series, and have covered many subjects including Canadian landscapes, trees, buildings, and rocks. Currently I am focusing on moss and fungi. This show contains art from each series.
I have created fiber art for over 30 years. My pieces have been shown across Canada and internationally. Now I show primarily in eastern Ontario.
I am privileged to be a member of the Kingston Fiber Artists and the Organization of Kingston Women Artists.
