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Cyndy Chwelos - Artist in Residence


Cyndy joins Eden studios from Vancouver, as an artist in residence in April 2026. During her stay, she intends to develop the next iteration of her current project, Everyday Things. A project that explores how drawing, stitching, and found materials can intersect to tell personal and collective stories of home, care, and memory. explores domesticity, thrift, and the handmade through drawing, mail art, and textile processes. Her process includes drawing on cotton tea towels, transforming these everyday objects into canvases for embroidery and collage, adding hand-stitching and embroidery to create layers that honour the quiet beauty of domestic labor and the emotional.

Another ongoing project, Meet my Mom, is a series of drawings of my mother, who is now 95. Recently, she has begun translating these drawings onto cloth, experimenting with stitched line and layered textile portraiture. This transition from paper to fabric has opened new possibilities for expression — merging drawing and textile traditions in a tender, evolving conversation about aging, memory, and care.

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