Hi!
I’m Tracey Cameron, an Artist, Designer, Seamstress and Builder.
I make colourfully bold art works and home goods inspired by my love of nature. Working with recycled and remnant fabrics, I combine collage, stitching, drawing, acrylic washes and quilting to create my paintings with fabric.
I graduated with BDes in Graphic Design from the Alberta College of Art & Design, ACAD (now the Alberta University of Arts) and really allow that graphic training to inform my work. Although I trained as a Graphic Designer, digital creation never sat well on me. I love to work with my hands and get dirty and experiment.
I started playing with textiles as an artistic medium after I graduated from design school. I think of my process as taking little bits of the people who were important to me growing up; textiles from my mother, building from my father, quilting from my Grandmother and thrifting from my Uncle.
Using recycled textiles is very important to me. As a child my family would frequent a lot of garage sales and I grew to love the hunt of finding the diamond in the junk. I still love that feeling but it’s bigger than that. I see the effects of the disposable culture we live in and feel it’s important that we learn to reuse before we buy new.
I grew up and live in Calgary Alberta Canada. It’s the largest city in Alberta on the edge of the Rocky Mountains and is getting more metropolitan by the year. Living so close to wilderness informs a lot of my work, but I am just as happy walking barefoot through a park as hiking up a mountain. I would love to live by the ocean one day, but for now Calgary is home.
I have always loved animals but I became fascinated with painting birds my final year of design school. Birds are our closest connection to “wildness” in an urban environment. I love their colour, diversity, graphic shape and their innate sense of freedom during flight.
I am always making something. Whether it’s creating a wall hanging, reupholstering a chair, or building a piece of furniture, I find it both relaxing and energizing at the same time. My boyfriend and I spent the last three years renovating our first home and adding a basement suite (you can read about it here). It was the hardest and most satisfying thing I have ever done! I am now addicted and will be adding Real Estate Mogul to my title soon.
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