About the Artist
Pat Borecky is a Fabric Artist who designs innovative wearable art, landscape art quilts and paintings. Her passion for color, imagery and pattern is evident in the unusual way she combines fabrics to create her works of art. Her free-form techniques involve recycling, layering, fusing, thread-painting, fusing and embellishing.
Pat's one-of-a-kind and limited edition jackets and vests are both artistic and functional. Her fabric paintings range in size from miniature art cards to large-scale wallhangings for public spaces.
Pat's strength lies in selecting unusual colors and patterns in fabrics and combining them to design her landscape collages. In 1998 Pat won the Award of Excellence in Wearable Art Design from the Canadian Quilt Association for her thread-painting technique. In 2002 she created a new technique "Scraps to Riches" and again won the Award of Excellence in Wearable Art Design. This new body of work is a process of recycling natural fabrics, exploring the visual properties of color and texture.
Pat travels internationally to teach workshops and judge quilt shows.
Home is Calgary, Alberta where she assists in running her sewing dealership and maintains a working studio. She markets her clothing in specialty Canadian boutiques and her art in galleries. She accepts commissions.
Pat's quilts are in the collection of: Walt Disney Productions, Great West Life Insurance Co., Tourism Manitoba, Riverview Municipal Hospital Winnipeg, The Lodge at Valley Ridge Calgary, The legislature Manitoba, as well as many private collectors.
Pat Borecky is truly a Canadian Artist.