{"title":"Bay Woodyard - artist","description":"\u003cp id=\"docs-internal-guid-42cadf2b-7fff-98fd-15df-2acb5eab1a48\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eArtist’s Statement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAfter graduating from art high school and art college, I spent several years painting, travelling and working in many different mediums. I took part in a performance art festival in Toronto called 7A*11d where I recreated a turn of the century travelling medicine show, selling herbal products I had made out of a cart I built from found objects. This was such a success I decided to make a career out of it. In 2000, my partner Gavin North and I started our farm-based business, Honey Pie Hives \u0026amp; Herbals. I’ve always seen this as part performance art, part craft and part agriculture. A constant during all of this has been a love for knitting, crochet and natural dyeing. In 2018 I got back into natural dyeing in a big way and started selling naturally dyed yarn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eIn the last few years I’ve started to make art using the fleece of local sheep as my medium. I dye the wool, spin it and use knitting and crochet to make art inspired by the natural environment I live in. I love the intersection of art and agriculture. I’m particularly interested in rewilding and the process of decay and regrowth as nature transforms the human attempts at domination into the wild again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"docs-internal-guid-6cbe07f6-7fff-9a9d-24bf-b2b341d7f351\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eEducation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eGraduate of Arts Canterbury High School in visual art, 1990\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eGraduate of the Ontario College of Art in Drawing and Painting, 1995\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAttended the Florence off campus program in Florence, Italy 1994\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"super-moon","title":"Super Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis piece is made from hand spun wool, wool scraps and vintage buttons. I knit it using the pi knitting method which starts in the centre and works outward. \u003cbr\u003eIt’s mounted on a round piece of plywood. If you want to purchase it please message me about shipping. It can be removed from the plywood if you wish to save on shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53176397299872,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/8505A5E4-66BE-42E0-8FA2-DAE83DCA9A12.jpg?v=1768424962"},{"product_id":"meadow-25","title":"Meadow 25","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a large knitted piece I made in 2025. I started it in January at an art residency in Picton at the County Arts Lab. I continued working on it in February at an art residency at Macauley House Museum in Picton. I finished it at home and took some pics of it in our meadow. I dyed local wool with natural dyes and then spun the yarn on my Lendrum spinning wheel. The colour and texture decisions are all made during the dyeing and spinning. One I started knitting it was just a giant rectangle - 7.5 feet wide and 5.5 feet tall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56797161750688,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/2674720C-1735-41AB-9C11-A9E31602BAAC.jpg?v=1772679846"},{"product_id":"alvar-blanket","title":"Alvar Blanket","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a knitted piece I made for an art show called Alvar, organized by the Department of Illumination in 2022. It was displayed on a fainting couch under a shade tent and people were invited to lie down on the blanket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat’s an Alvar?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Some of Earth’s rarest ecosystems, Alvars are hidden treasures of rich biodiversity right here in Prince Edward County, tucked into small pockets of exposed ancient limestone along the South Shore. Alvars are small but remarkably resistant and hyper-diverse habitats in extreme environments (wet and cool in the spring and bone dry by August) and they are home to more than 1000 documented species, including globally rare plants, songbirds, butterflies, dragonflies, salamanders and frogs, all uniquely adapted to these unusual conditions- a rich legacy of natural heritage and essential to protect for future generations.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNina-Marie Lister\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56797168238752,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/8911541D-0D6A-4EEF-8D26-3E948B938222.jpg?v=1772680698"},{"product_id":"forest-floor-blanket","title":"Forest Floor Blanket","description":"\u003cp\u003eNaturally dyed, hand spun, knitted blanket.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56956897460384,"sku":null,"price":4000.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/C453DA0E-802E-4D00-AD6F-9AC4D6D43978.jpg?v=1777075413"},{"product_id":"meadow","title":"Meadow","description":"","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56956917481632,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/IMG_5138.jpg?v=1777077334"},{"product_id":"rewilding-blanket","title":"Rewilding Blanket","description":"","brand":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56956923871392,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/files\/IMG_4121.jpg?v=1777078158"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9167\/4784\/collections\/0D05FBDA-A61D-4BA8-B7A7-5F22B01076ED.jpg?v=1772658606","url":"https:\/\/honeypie.ca\/collections\/bay-woodyard-artist\/natural-dyes.oembed","provider":"Honey Pie Hives \u0026 Herbals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}