Fibre Art by Krista Zeghers
Satellite Gallery - MMJS Law Office, Treherne, Manitoba
September 3 to December 31, 2025
Artist Bio:
Krista loves a wide range of artwork including portraits, landscapes and semi-abstracts, especially where the artist changes the realistic image to make it their own. Krista likes work that is recognizable to the viewer but has something unique and special about it. There could be a change of scale, a different colour scheme, a close-up of a small section, a repeated pattern or shape; any element that makes the work come alive and provides interest. Art needs to intrigue the viewer, make them want to look closer and spend time with the piece.
Serengeti Moment by Krista Zeghers and Coreen Zerr
Dimensions: Landscape Orientation, 30” X 70”
Date of Completion: January 2014
Techniques: cooperative art piece between two artists; thread painting; felting of natural fibres from raw fleece – washed, carded, dyed; domestic and long arm quilting with ghost images; rooibos tea dyed.
Exhibitions and Awards:
World Quilt Show 2016
Grand National Quilt Show 2015
Manitoba Prairie Quilters Show March 2015, Viewers’ Choice Award
Canadian Quilt Association June 2014 First in Realistic Representation
3,2,1: Create 2019 – 2021 Three-person Exhibit
SAQA Exhibit
“Fur, Fangs, Feathers and Fins 2022–2025 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona: April 2– June 19, 2022
Quilt Festival Long Beach, California: July 6-8, 2023
Quilt Festival Korea, Seoul: November 2 - 5, 2023
Detroit Zoo, Detroit, Michigan: April 1 - September 30, 2024
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma: May 27 - Jul 26 2025
Artists Statement:
Photographs from a safari trip in the Serengeti were the inspiration for this work. The male lion was peaking out from behind an acacia tree, both popular symbols of Africa. Ghost images of African animals are imbedded in the quilting to extend the ‘moment’. African rooibos tea was used to dye some of the fabric in the strip-pieced landscape, and hand dyed wool from sheep shearing was used for the lion’s mane and foreground grasses.
Artists Bio:
Coreen and Krista are quilting colleagues even though they live 3,000 kms apart. They worked together at the beginning and end of the Serengeti Moment process, the rest of the work was done by each artist at their home locations – Coreen in Nanimo, B.C. and Krista in Holland, Manitoba. Both fibre artists belong to the western Canadian group, Fibre Arts Network (FAN), and have their roots in rural Manitoba.
Powwow Power by Krista Zeghers
Dimensions: Portrait orientation, 28” X 26”
Date of Completion: January 2020
Photo Credit: Adapted from photographs of a powwow by Meghan Jonk with permission of the photographer and Swan Lake First Nation.
Techniques:
hand painted images on cotton, bojagi piecing of sheer materials with felled seams, random piecing with burlap, domestic free motion stitching, hand stitching, bead and feather embellishments
Artists Statement:
The powwow is an opportunity for indigenous people to celebrate good fortune as a family, society, clan, or tribe. It is a social and cultural gathering where Mother Earth's powerful heartbeat drums cultural identity, diversity and inclusion into Canadians of all backgrounds. Each feather on ceremonial regalia represents an honour or incident of bravery. Which opportunity or reconciliation will you choose to empower our future identity and culture?
Exhibitions and Awards:
Colour with a U, Western Canada SAQA Exhibit, 2020
The 3-minute video of Colour with a U
https://www.homerwatson.on.ca/exhibitions/virtual-exhibition/
The 60-minute slideshow
https://vimeo.com/401994763/228b98385e
Buhler Gallery, St. Boniface Hospital – November 2021