Artist Kathryn Belzer

Artist: Kathryn Belzer
Height: 15″
Medium: Silk and cotton cloth over wire and pool noodle
Photo: Dan Abriel

The sisters carry their haiku books and flowers for Japanese flower arranging. They also have a sashiko bag with Japanese paper for their lessons in Japanese brushwork. They wear raku pendants and indigo-dyed accessories. Kathryn and embroiderer, Elizabeth Litch created them in a log cabin on Georgian Bay, Ontario.

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Artist: Kathryn Belzer
Size: 12″ high
Medium: Cloth over wire armature, plexiglass base
Photo: Dan Abriel

When she joined the senior women’s hockey team, the Fleurs de Lis, Madame Louise found a perfect outlet for her post-menopausal zest and an ideal use for her obsolete inventory of serviettes hygiéniques. Louise is on display from February 2000 – March 2003 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec. The show is called Timeless Treasures: The History of the Doll in Canada. Louise appears on loan from the collection of, Wisconsin’s Mary Rogers Gillespie. Thanks, Mary!

Artist: Kathryn Belzer
Size: 5′ 3″ tall, (5′ in stocking feet)
Medium: Cloth over wire & papier mâché
Photo: Dan Abriel

When Pete Lucket requested a Royal presence for his new British import store, there was but one candidate in my imagination. Thanks to a great research librarian at the Halifax Regional Library, we have an anatomically correct (well, the height and shoe size) Royal to greet us in the Bedford Mall.

Artist: Kathryn Belzer
Size: 30cm X 60cm X 22.5cm
Medium: Cloth over Wire Armature
Photo: Dan Abriel

The main character in L. Frank Baum’s little-known book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, inspired my creation of Scraps. In that book, Margolotte, the wizard’s wife, wanted a serving girl and made one of an old crazy quilt. Before the busy wizard brought her to life, a well-meaning guest shook extra wits-powder into her head. When she came to life, she had no intention to lead the dull life of a domestic servant. Her curiosity and cleverness took her down The Yellow Brick Road. The remainder of the book tells the story of Scraps’ adventures in Oz. Her romance with the Scarecrow is not to be missed.

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Artist: Kathryn Belzer
Size: 12″
Medium: Cloth over Wire Armature
Photo: Dan Abriel

Plato taught that serious things cannot be understood without laughable things.

This helps me understand why even solemn thoughts and feelings, such as those I sometimes have about aging, manifest themselves in a piece like “In-line, Mid-life Doris.”

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