Felines at fittin:

WV cat lover a part of craft museum show

Layne Christensen

News Reporter layne@nusnews.cam

MADELEINE Chisholm loves cats.

It was a natural fit. then when othe Canadian Craft Museum) asked the West Van artist to take part ia ts holiday exhibition and sale. Urs Raining Cats and Dons.

Chisholm has been desizn- ing jewelry ona feline theme since her earliest forays into wearable art.

“J adore cats and animals. Ir's as simple as that,” says the artist.

In the 1970s she worked as a fibre artist. BC Tel, the Bank of. Montreal and Dominion Construction commissioned her large-scale works.

She branched into jewelry making in 1981. Two years jar she opened her Neat Things studio shop in’ the 1700-block Marine Drive, offering jewelry-making work- shops and selling her designs.

She closed her studio three years ago and moved produc- tion into her Ambleside home.

Now, at 63, she’s content to spend time with her cats — pins, carrings and necklaces hand-crafted from sterling silver — which are sold in galleries and specialty shops — across Canada for $58 to $250 apiece.

Fach jewelry item is stamped out and finished by hand. Each is different because it is hand textured. Her wear-

News photo Mike Wakelield

able cats have personality, like MADELEINE Chisholm is one of a handful of North Shore artists to contrivute . works to the Canadian Craft Museum's holiday exhibition. Her sterling silver cat See Whimsical page 36 necklace works well with the show's theme, /t's Raining Cats and Dogs.

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