Diana Scott - Featured Artist Jul 8 - Sep 2, 2024

Featured during our Art and Poetry show from Jul 8 - Sep 2, 2024, Diana Scott shares the following statement about her work:

“I learned my art through a lifetime of practice, combining many crafts, including, but not limited to; hand and machine embroidery, knitting, macrame, crocheting, beading, and weaving. Combining these skills with my own creativity has allowed me to speak to my human experience, frustrations, and passions, as well as allowing me to connect with and echo nature. My art is what has sustained me and lifted me through the many challenges, changes, traumas and joys of my life.

It’s very important for me to make art that has a function and/or home. I create works only if there is a wall on which to hang it, a babe to sleep under it, an arm to carry it, or a soul to appreciate it. And sometimes just to heal my own soul.”

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Diana was born in Toronto and grew up in Dorval, Quebec. At the age of 11 she was shuffled around between various places including Woodstock and London On. Her childhood was informed by the chaotic environment created by her borderline mother. In the wake of that chaos, she found an escape in fiber/fabric construction, crafting and theater. Her formative years were filled with self-initiated creation, including wall hanging and embroidery projects, marionette construction, doll making, clothes and curtain construction, and in her final year of highschool, the production of the school musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Diana was married in her early twenties. By the time she was forty, she was raising three children alone. Birthing, caring for, and raising her children has been the most powerfully important thing she has accomplished, and was an early life goal. Her children are doing important work in their lives and Diana takes great pride in their accomplishments. Emma, the oldest, is an international teacher and mother to two boys; Cassie is a musician, songwriter, teacher and climate activist and Luke is a teacher, and is completing his masters towards becoming a psychologist. There were many joys and many struggles seeing her children into adulthood.

Diana retired from teaching with the Upper Grand District School Board in 2013 and since then has spent a great deal of time in her studio/sewing room creating things, including: clothing, quilts, computer bags, knitting bags, hangings and many fabric boxes for loved ones and the occasional client. Her fabric boxes have not only been an excellent teaching tool, but also served as special gifts for many loved ones and now live in homes all over the world.

Diana presently resides between her home in Collingwood, where her studio lives and her home in Burlington, where her husband practices as a physiotherapist and homeopath. In her studio, she is currently working on a fiber/fabric series called Studies On Water, using found objects from nature. She is an active participant in The Gaslight Theatre Group and has recently begun to write her first play. She is also working towards publishing her first book of collected poetry and art entitled Journeys of a Stitching Heart.

Learn more and view Diana’s work at https://dianascottcreations.ca.