Thoma Ewen: Light Refraction Tapestries  

Vernissage: Sunday 23 November, 1 PM to 4 PM

Sanctuary Hall Gallery 

 

Featuring: Jen Boyes-Manseau, theatre artist, ceremonialist and circle dance facilitator will offer a community dance experience as part of the vernissage. No dance experience needed – just a love of moving to music, a curious spirit, and an open heart to experience simple circle dances and explore how these light filled tapestries move us and evoke our interconnectedness.

 

The series, Light Refraction Tapestries, is an intuitive exploration of light and energy flow patterns. Woven in pastel tones, their innate radiance, gentle flowing patterns and soft harmonious colours inspire feelings of calm and well-being.  Several of these tapestries grace the walls of meditation rooms. It is said these weavings transmit the energy of peace.
“My work as an artist weaver over the fifty years has been an investigation of what it means to be a human being influenced by the natural landscape and beauty of the earth. It is an intuitive visual exploration of the forces or energies that move through everything on and beyond the planet. Light is an important element and a source of inspiration. I try to communicate the harmony and movement in the universe. To me, weaving is a contemporary metaphor for the interconnections between all living systems of our biosphere.”
All the tapestries in this series are woven on an upright vertical loom, using cotton warp,  and wool and acrylic weft, at a weaving set of 4 warp ends per inch.
Thoma has exhibited in Museo Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala 1996; Museo de Arte Moderno, Merida,  Venezuela 1997; Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC 2000; and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, ON 2003.
Selected tapestries from the series were exhibited in Design by Commission, Harbourfront, Toronto ON 1990; Hors Serie, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, QC 1997; and in Le Tissage et le temps in Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, QC 2025.
The 10th tapestry in the series, “Bonding” is in the permanent collection of Global Affairs Canada in the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City.

Thoma Ewen: Light Refraction Tapestries  

Thoma Ewen: Light Refraction Tapestries  

Vernissage: Sunday 23 November, 1 PM to 4 PM

Sanctuary Hall Gallery 

 

Featuring: Jen Boyes-Manseau, theatre artist, ceremonialist and circle dance facilitator will offer a community dance experience as part of the vernissage. No dance experience needed – just a love of moving to music, a curious spirit, and an open heart to experience simple circle dances and explore how these light filled tapestries move us and evoke our interconnectedness.

 

The series, Light Refraction Tapestries, is an intuitive exploration of light and energy flow patterns. Woven in pastel tones, their innate radiance, gentle flowing patterns and soft harmonious colours inspire feelings of calm and well-being.  Several of these tapestries grace the walls of meditation rooms. It is said these weavings transmit the energy of peace.
“My work as an artist weaver over the fifty years has been an investigation of what it means to be a human being influenced by the natural landscape and beauty of the earth. It is an intuitive visual exploration of the forces or energies that move through everything on and beyond the planet. Light is an important element and a source of inspiration. I try to communicate the harmony and movement in the universe. To me, weaving is a contemporary metaphor for the interconnections between all living systems of our biosphere.”
All the tapestries in this series are woven on an upright vertical loom, using cotton warp,  and wool and acrylic weft, at a weaving set of 4 warp ends per inch.
Thoma has exhibited in Museo Ixchel, Guatemala City, Guatemala 1996; Museo de Arte Moderno, Merida,  Venezuela 1997; Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC 2000; and Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, ON 2003.
Selected tapestries from the series were exhibited in Design by Commission, Harbourfront, Toronto ON 1990; Hors Serie, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, QC 1997; and in Le Tissage et le temps in Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, QC 2025.
The 10th tapestry in the series, “Bonding” is in the permanent collection of Global Affairs Canada in the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City.
Date November 22, 2025 - March 29, 2026Time All Day EventLocation 8 Chemin Mill, Chelsea, QC, Canada,