Juanita Sauve Art Quilts: My Gallery

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My work is available for sale in the Ottawa area for now and I will be happy to deliver to your front door no charge. Hopefully soon I will be back to shipping work nationally or internationally.

Hand stitched fibre art and embroidery on a background of commercial, hand dyed or painted fabric, or a wet or needle felted base. Machine stitched fabric strips and applique.

Freeform hand embroidery on satin, cotton, wool or felted backgrounds is my true love. See Prairie, Good Bones, Wildfires; a Terrible Beauty and The Sheep are in the Meadow.

My work is moving away from larger hung hand stitched quilts but I still try to do one or two each year. I especially enjoy creating landscapes with strips of fabric, heavily stitched as in Fire in the Sky or Sunset Reflections. Most of these are mounted on gallery canvas.

My pieces are for sale unless otherwise noted. Prices are in Cdn $$ and do not include shipping. If you need more information or wish to purchase an item, please email me at jrsquilts@gmail.com

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Thank you for your interest in my work.


Fire in the Sky 16 x 20" $800

This piece was exhibited at Quilt Canada 2019 in Ottawa, Canada. It is designed with strips of fabrics with appliqued trees and buildings.


Lavender Fields Forever 12 x 12" $450

Many narrow strips of fabric heavily machine stitched make up this impressionist image of lavender fields.

Still Marching After All These Years NFS

When I look at women all over the world marching for women's rights, human rights, better government and climate change action, it reminds me of the suffragists who marched over a century ago so we could have the vote. And we are still marching!

Mad About Saffron 12 x 12" $450

This piece was exhibited in June 2019 with Out of the Box Fibre Artists at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte. Designed from strips of fabric, machine stitched with applique.

Prairie 10 x 13" $250

Wet felted and hand stitched, Prairie was exhibited at the Glebe Community Art Show in May 2019

Autumn's Glory 5 x 5 " embroidery framed to 9 x 9" NFS

Fourteen days of stitching went into this embroidered piece! I love hiking in the forest in Autumn more than any other season.

Good Bones 14" x 14" $375

Needle felted on recycled wool background with sari silk. Hand embroidery.

Mostly Blue 8 x 16" $300

Hand embroidery on a needle felted roving and sari silk background.

Threads of Solidarity 14 x 11" $600

Hand embroidery with text depicting inclusiveness and celebrating difference. Together we are stronger. Created for Summer Fibrations exhibition in June 2019 at the Textile Museum in Almonte.

Tuliptime 8 x 10" $250

I love tulips!! In my home they represent the coming of spring.

Intensive hand embroidery on linen with machine quilting.

Wildfires; a Terrible Beauty $500

This piece was exhibited at the Focus on Fibre Arts Climate Change exhibition in 2018 where it won two awards - a second in its specific felting category and Best of Category for overall Felting. It represents the terrible destruction of wildfires coupled with the hope of regeneration.

Floral Reflections 10 x 10" $275

A little experiment in chopping up fabrics and placing them to create a distorted view akin to reflections on the water.

Sunset Reflections $400

I love sunsets! Designed by placing strips of fabric which are then machine stitched to create sky and water. Appliqued rocks and trees.


Look Up; Spring is Here! 12 x 12" $450

I love the fresh greens of spring and I love looking up at a blue sky through the branches.

Forest Fantasia 11" x 14" $350

Painted satin background and hand stitched gnarly trees give this piece a Japanese print look. Mounted on a painted gallery canvas.

Ultraviolet Ocean 11 x 14" $275

Needle felted sky with stitching and angelina fibres. Sari silk ribbon, hand stitching, tulle and angelina ocean.

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire 12 x 12" NFS

A look at the political situation in the USA, with its swirling, heated rhetoric. Hand stitched on snow dyed fabric (dyed by Pat Hardie). Mounted on canvas in a gold floating frame. This piece was exhibited at the Focus on Fibre Art Climate Change exhibition in Edmonton in 2018 where it won 3 awards - first in its quilting category, Best of overall Quilting category and Best of Show! It was exhibited in the rosette category at Quilt Canada in June 2019.

Living Colour 24 x 30" $1000

Individual rectangles needle felted and hand stitched. Created for Colour Unboxed, an exhibition with Out of the Box Fibre Artists at the Textile Museum in Almonte, On.

Down the Garden |Path; Friendship is a Garden 22 x 28" $1500

This piece was a labour of love. Fussy cut blooms were hand stitched and embroidered on a sun dyed background with text depicting friendship and uniqueness. We are each different yet part of the same garden. I have exhibited this piece several times.

Autumn 16 x 20" $800 SOLD

Machine stitched strips of fabric form this autumn piece. This one was part of the Colour Unboxed exhibition with Out of the Box Fibre Artists at the Textile Museum in Almonte.

Morning Has Broken 11 x 14:" $375

Strips of fabric are heavily machine stitched to blend for this early morning scene.

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Girl at Sunset 8 x 10" $75 SOLD

Hand embroidery on hand painted satin.

Windswept 8 x 10" ~~$250~~ $200

Hand embroidery on painted satin background, this piece is mounted on a stretched canvas in a black float frame.

Northern Nights 11 x 14" $250

Needle felted with hand embroidered trees. Mounted on a painted gallery canvas. Exhibited at the GNAG Art Show at the Glebe Community Centre in Ottawa in May, 2018.

The Sheep are in the Meadow framed to 10 x 10" SOLD

Lots of hand embroidered grasses and french knots, fittingly stitched on a herringbone wool background. Inspired by a photo taken in Gros Morne NL.

Oh Starry Nights! 11 x 14" $275

This piece is felted and stitched then mounted on mat board and framed in blue barnboard style frame.

Look Up; Autumn's Last Hurrah! 12 x 12 "

I love to look up at the sky surrounded by trees. Hand appliqued leaves and hand embroidery on snow dyed fabric (dyed by Pat Hardie). This piece was inspired by Pat's hand dyed fabric and was exhibited with Fibre Content in Burlington in fall 2016 SOLD

First Blush 9 x 12" $300

Dawn on the prairies, inspired by my hand painted satin fabric. Embroidered by hand.


Sentinels of the Forest in Spring

$280
This piece is 12" x 14" when matted and framed in a natural wood frame. Machine stitching and applique with tulle overlays.

On the Rocks; Sometimes You Just Need to Get Away 24 x 19` $1000

Hand applique, hand stitched and hand quilted, painted background

When I Was Twenty-One 24 x 24` $900

                                    Hand stitched and appliqued, painted figures and flowers,
                                    this piece represents my own coming of age in the sixties
                                    and the ways this has influenced my values and beliefs.
                                    This piece was exhibited at Threadworks.


Sunset Over Cavendish Beach

$450

This piece is 12" x 16" and is mounted on a slanted stretched canvas. It is pieced and machine stitched with angelina and tulle overlays. The figures are appliqued by hand. This piece was exhibited with Fibre Content 2016 at the Art Gallery of Burlington and was part of a travelling exhibit throughout Ontario. It is featured on the Fibre Content Poster for 2018.

Votes for Women: The Women's Mock Parliament

$375

I had fun researching this piece which is dedicated to the suffragists in Winnipeg in 1914 who turned the tables on those who said women should not have the vote by putting on a play asking the question "Should Men Have the Vote?" all very tongue in cheek. This piece is 16" x 20". The background is appropriately hand stitched. The pictures and text are photo transferred and documents some of the struggles of women to get the vote. In the centre is some very humorous text from the play itself. I mounted this piece on a stretched canvas which was covered in bits of text, writings and quotes. I placed the text boxes on the background in the shape of an X as a symbol of the vote. This piece has been exhibited at the Stittsville Library, Focus on Art Exhibition in Alberta, the Vardera Cafe, and the GNAG Art Show at the Glebe Community Centre in Ottawa in May 2018. An article by Taymaz Valley in the online publication Apt613 described this piece as the Piece the Resistance of the show!! Thank you to Taymaz!


Red Sky at Night Sailors' Delight

This piece is 12 x 12" and is mounted on a stretched canvas. Exhibited with Out of the Box Fibre Artists' Colour Challenge Exhibit and Colour Unboxed at the MVTM. SOLD


With Eyes Like Diamonds in the Sky

$400

This piece is 10 x 20", mounted on stretched canvas and is entirely hand stitched with silk threads and beaded embellishment. It was part of a beading challenge and was exhibited at Fibre Fling 2 and at Canada Beading Supply where it tied for first for Viewer's Choice Award.

A Tree in the Yard

$325

This piece is entirely hand embroidered. The inspiration came from my giant ash tree which is undergoing treatments to prevent the emerald ash borer which has invaded our community. So far it is fine. The piece is 6`` by 9`` matted and framed under glass to 9`` x 12``.

Prairie Dawn
$250

This special piece is 6" x 12" and mounted on a stretched canvas ready to hang. The sky is hand painted satin and the fields are machine stitched. The piece was created last fall (2013) for an exhibition at our local library and the theme was first lines of a book. I chose W.O. Mitchell's 'Who Has Seen the Wind` - ``Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirement, simply, of land and sky - Saskatchewan Prairie``. More recently this piece has travelled to the FFAA show Prairies where it was exhibited in Edmonton. Prairie Dawn won second prize in its category of Mixed Media.

The Conversation - $350 SOLD

This 12" x 12" piece is completely hand embroidered on a photo transfer. It is mounted on a stretched canvas and is ready to hang. The grouping of the tiny red/orange/yellow mushrooms reminded me of two families out for a stroll and stopping for a chat, hence the title. This piece was part of Fibre Content, an exhibition in Burlington, ON in September 2014.

Fields of Gold

$250 SOLD

This piece is a combination of fabric, paint and hand stitching. It is 8 x 10 inches, framed to 16 x 18 inches. Another in my Prairie series, this one focuses on the golden fields with a stream running through it under a clear blue sky.

Pitcher Plant 5 x 7" matted and framed to 12 x 10" $240

Background is hand embroidered. Pitcher plant is painted, appliqued and embroidered. A colourful piece inspired by photos I took of pitcher plants nestled in ground cover in Newfoundland. Matted and framed in a barnboard style frame

Underwater Reflections

$300

12" x 12"

Applique, free motion machine stitching, hand embroidery, covered in tulle, mounted on fabric-covered stretched canvas. Inspired by rainbow reflections on underwater rocks at Fishing Cove, Cape Breton

Algonquin Bull Moose 21" x 18"

~~$990~~ $650

We saw this magnificent creature grazing in Algonquin Park. His expression seemed to say "Please just go away and leave me alone". So we snapped a photo and left him to his business. This piece is completely hand-stitched and appliqued.

Protecting Our Wilderness; Canada`s National Parks 21 x 26` $800

Machine stitched strips, appliqued photo transfer. Created for Focus on Fibre Art Exhibition, Edmonton themed My Heritage.

Water Lily 12 x 17` $300

Hand stitched. Professionally framed.

Birds of Paradise 26" x 20"

~~$980~~ $700

I just love the striking colours and bold design of a Bird of Paradise flower. Stitched and quilted by hand with cotton batiks.

Kuan Yin; Mother of compassion 26 x 34` $1200

Applique, Hand Stitching and Paint. Exhibited at Sacred Threads exhibition, Herndon, USA

Kitchen Party 16.5 x 16.5` $480

Applique, embroidery, hand quilted

From a photo by the late Neville Hamilton. When you come upon two kitchen chairs by the water in the middle of a field in PEI what can you imagine..........maybe an outdoor kitchen party! Exhibited at Threadworks and Quilt Canada.

A Tree is Life 15 x 18` $250

Applique, hand stitched. A tree gives us life in so many ways, from oxygen, shade, fruit, our homes.......

Puffins 10" x 12"

$210

Hand-stitched and hand-quilted

Heard it Through the Grapevine 11.5" x 14"

$230

I appliqued each grape leaf by hand unto the background and spilling over the black frame. The tiny bunches of grapes just starting to form and the curly tendrils are embroidered.

Amaryllis - 4" x 6" matted to 8" x 10" $70 unframed SOLD
Flower is hand-painted on fabric and embroidered, fabric-backed and mounted in a 5 x 7 mat - ready to frame.

The Earth is a Woman - 34" x 25" $1200 SOLD

Hand-stitched, handquilted, with applique, embroidery, gemstone stars, sequins, gemstones

Dancing in the Clouds - 28" x 27" - ~~$800~~ $650

A whimsical look at a herd of elephants dancing among the clouds - and hardly a pink elephant in sight (well maybe one or two). Inspired by seeing a galloping herd of elephants on TV raising a cloud of dust behind them. This piece is raw edge and turned applique and is hand-stitched and hand quilted. I added some African batik as an inner frame.

Beach Huts at Suffolk - 6" x 24" -$90

This piece was completed as part of a challenge triptych but it stands quite well on its own.


Reflections in a Swamp - 11 x 14

$250

This piece is mostly machine stitched torn fabric strips with some hand stitching added. Mounted on a painted stretched canvas


Motherhood - 11 x 14

$300
Hand embroidered - inspired by a photo I took of a mother raccoon and 4 little ones. It was a hot day and she was tired of them jumping all over her so she threw herself over a branch and fell asleep.