Artist’s Biography: Saga Sabin
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Saga Sabin took art in High School in England, where she lived until 1976 before immigrating to Canada to work as a Psychiatrist for the government of Alberta. She has taken art workshops and courses at the University of Alberta Extension as well as with Loyalist College, Belleville, and the Belleville Art Association.
She moved here from Alberta in 2001, and has a 75 acre farm on the Shannon Rd
Saga enjoys painting animals, landscapes and farm life. She paints in
acrylics and watercolours in an impressionistic style. More recently she has
been experimenting with some abstract art. In 2002 she learned to make
hand-crafted felt with fibre gathered from her own llamas. She then makes
semi-abstract pictures by adding more fibre in a type of collage, using a needle
felting technique.
Saga is a former President of the Belleville Art Association, and later was Treasurer, and is a member of the Quinte Arts Council, the Tweed Arts Council and the Ontario Crafts Council.
She has exhibited at the Stirling Fine Art Festival, Kingston Women’s Art festival, Madoc Art and Music Festival, and the Tweed Studio Tour, and other juried shows in Ontario. She recently won the Ontario Crafts Council Design award at the Quinte Arts Councils show "Expressions 09" for one of her felted pieces.
She recently won an award in the Quinte Art’s Council’s "Expressions" show 2009 given by the Ontario Crafts Council for one of her felted fibre pieces. She received another award for her fibreart at the Belleville Art Association's annual juried show at the John M Parrott gallery in Belleville in 2009.
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Her work can be seen at her studio on her farm at Shannon Road near Plainfield, the Tweed Heritage Centre and Noah’s Ark in Tweed, the Belleville General Hospital, Rosehaven Farm Store in Picton, the Belleville Art Association’s Studio & Gallery at 392 Front Street, Belleville, Ontario, and more recently at Stockdale Mill Gallery.
She has sold work in England, Ireland and France as well as other Canadian provinces. Her work is in several private collections and in the permanent collection at the Tweed Heritage Centre.