In what hopes to be a yearly tradition, Corrina Hammond, Tracy Fillion and Mima Preston will come together at Eden Studios for a week of weaving, knowledge sharing, and all round creativeness.

BIO’s

Corrina Hammond joins us from Vancouver where she loves trend watching, trend bucking, critiquing the fast fashion industry, sprezzatura, quality cloth, colourful and natural fibres, cultural weaving practices and textile history. Corrina is an artist and founder of Domestic Intervention Co. Her core belief is in supporting artisan craft making and cottage industry makers to negate cultural erasure. Corrina invites you to join the movement! She brings her beliefs and passion to her weaving studio at Domestic Intervention Co. Find out more about her Weaving Spa here! .

Tracy Fillion joins us from Nelson, BC. Her artistic practice focuses on hand weaving and plant dyeing, blending traditional techniques with contemporary design. She cultivates her own dye garden, growing flowers and indigo, and uses these natural dyes to create one-of-a-kind (OOAK) wearable pieces. Her deep connection to the process—from growing plants to weaving cloth—infuses her work with a thoughtful, hands-on approach to craft. She is also founder of textile based company- We Are Stories. where all of her pieces are designed, cut, printed and sewn in her home studio.

Mima Preston is a multidisciplinary artist, practicing therapist and founder of Eden studios. With a deep interest in themes of labour, process, and repetition, her studio practice is rooted in traditional and contemporary textile practices. Her practice includes floor loom weaving, large scale knitting, handiwork, and sewing to create sculptural installations and wall pieces. Her work explores the use of unconventional soft materials, aiming to reimagine traditional textile patterns while experimenting with scale and texture. Eden studios was started in 2024 and is born from her Mima’s belief in the value of creative practice and the importance of artistic community.

Jane joins us from Vancouver for a special knowledge exchange session this February. In exchange for individual weaving instruction and guidance, Jane will advise and instruct on pruning techniques, suggestions for long term tree care, and sustainability of the modest orchard on Eden studio property. Jane brings her expertise as landscape designer, horticulturalist and arborist and will surely have things to say about the three apple trees, two plum, one fig, one giant walnut, two hazelnut and a massive mulberrry tree that has seen better days! I look forward to being both teacher and student!

LOOKING OUT (working title) - EDEN RESIDENCY

Building on the trade-based economy present at Eden Studios, I’ve decided to bring three of my topiary trees to plant on the property. I’m excited to survey the land, listen to it, look at it, feel and live it before placing the plants. I want to share my experience working with these trees, the knowledge to care for them and the pruning techniques with the host. I’ll spend time in the studio working on a series of 28 wooden spoons that I’m producing for a future event known as SOUP, where a diverse audience will be brought together to activate a space and create engaging conversation.  

BIO

Matthew Robertson (b.1980) is a visual artist and horticulturist who lives and works between Vancouver and Chilliwack, BC. Wood has been a central medium, producing installations, inanimate objects, furniture and structures. Since 2012, Robertson’s practice has been rooted in geometric topiary tree production on farmland, fabricating a palette of living shapes. The artist is interested in juxtaposing these forms into landscape environments to distract from the everyday. Themes of time & patience, craft, DIY culture echo through his work and satisfy his need to create.

Hailing from Vancouver, Caroline will be joining Eden Studios as a resident artist in April, 2025. During her stay, she will be exploring weaving techniques to create 3 dimensional forms, both functional and sculptural - potentially furniture. Through this experimentation she would like to create a piece that could be useful and contribute to the residency site in some way (like a useful piece of furniture or object). Other options for contribution may include, making a very big, very nice cake and inviting community members over to eat it together.

Bio

Caroline Ballhorn is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. 

Her current work is textile based, and often incorporates weaving, print-making, sewing and drawing.

Through her past work as cofounder of Tin Can Studio (2010-2019), a mobile art space, she explored and facilitated a number of community-based collaborative creative projects and events. These included hosting an annual Incredible Pie Championship, transforming into a pirate radio station, hosting a dog portrait studio, and serving mystery drinks at a Tom Selleck themed tiki bar.

Caroline is also active as an illustrator, designer and musician, and is a member of Frazey Ford's band. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2010.

Leah Rosenberg works across artistic media to spark new experiences of color. Using painting, installation, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and video she closely aligns art and life by inviting viewers to consider how color can be perceived both multi-sensorially and multi-dimensionally. Through creating such enriched encounters, her work documents time and place and strives to deepen our understanding of the emotional and psychological impact of color in everyday life. Rooted in her belief in the fundamental generosity of art and the creative act, Rosenberg promotes an egalitarian approach to the perception of color. In such works as the commissioned mural,

BIO - Leah Rosenberg lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She has exhibited her work widely including recent solo exhibitions at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco. Recent exhibitions include When One Sees a Rainbow at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and More Generous Than a Window at the Denver Art Museum. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has participated in artist residency programs across the country including the Vermont Studio Center, Project 387, Facebook, Google, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program. She has been awarded numerous fellowships including the Irvine Fellowship through the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center and the Kala Fellowship at Kala Art Institute. In 2019, she was invited to talk about the language of color for TEDxSan Francisco. Rosenberg holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC and an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.