Shop the Carrot
The Carrot presents local work by artists and artisans. Come by to check out their beautiful work that is also available for purchase.
Fiber Arts
Butterfly Garage
Naomi Pahl, was born in Edmonton Alberta, and presently is a stay at home mother, residing in McCauley. She was born to parents who regularly displayed creativity, inventiveness and resourcefulness. From an early age she learned to sew, build, paint, play guitar, cook, draw, crochet, garden, saw, hammer, and the list goes on. Ask her to sew a wedding dress and then lay a carpet, and she can do both! She has the gift of looking at anything and seeing what it can become, and then the ingenuity to create it! At a very early age, Naomi was instilled with a keen environmental awareness. The motto: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is seen in all of her work, making her customers not only feel good by buying locally, they are also environmentally friendly.
Divine Graffiti
Lori Anne Youngman has been compelled by Beauty perhaps as long as she can remember and it is her desire to powerfully impact her world with it. She has gathered it about her as much as possible in hopes that it might influence her with its profound example. As years passed, she began to realize that this ability to retain her childlike wonder and attachment to beauty was unique. She really did see beauty and meaning where others might simply walk by. Within her artwork you will find an invitation to re engage in that childlike wonder and explore the painting before you freely. Find some personal meaning where it may not be obvious upon first glance. Working primarily in acrylic, her abstract work is characterized by dynamic bursts of colour. Most recently she has created a unique line of hand painted wearable art in luxurious silk, Divine Graffiti.
Adrian Kils Fine Leather
Specially selected hides are being used to create old stagecoach leather. They are being selected for their strength, character, grains, and their tractile quality. The untreated naked leather is rotated for days in large drums where it is softened and enriched with natural treatments drawn by plant extracts, fats and clean aniline dyes. Adrian Klis traditional craftsmanship guarantees you top quality products which is made to last.
Jewelry + Wearable Items
The Woman to Blame
Cindy Kirby loves to play with fire. Working with a surface mix propane and oxygen torch designed for lamp work, a method of glasswork, she meticulously spins slender rods of coloured glass into small and elegant beads. Like some modern alchemist, she transforms solid to liquid to solid, creating a feast of colour and texture. Each bead is an exercise in patience and precision that reflects her insistence on perfection. And the bead is only part of the finished product. Cindy painstakingly replicates bead after bead, then combines her beads with Bali silver beads and Swarovski crystals to create perfectly elegant bracelets, earrings and other jewelry. No two pieces are ever the same. Owner of The Woman to Blame, resident of Bellevue and self-proclaimed beadaholic Cindy really is the woman to blame. Once you’ve owned lampwork jewelry, there’s no stopping at one piece!
Orange Avocado Jewelry Designs
Sandra Paetsch, a jewelry designer based in Edmonton, Alberta metalsmiths bronze, fine and sterling silver and gold filled precious metals into jewelry for anyone who loves fresh, modern and beautiful things. Sandra began her jewelry line in 2005. In Sandra’s ability to make “something from nothing” her love of art, creation, and individuality shone through. Restless for something fresh and different, Sandra began to venture into the world of metalworking of precious metals … pure silver, bronze, gold-filled metals, copper, stainless steel and brass.
Dragonfire Studio
Fran Davis has been making lampwork beads since 1998. Fran mostly uses Italian glass, but also uses German and American made glass. Her beads are made by melting glass rods in the flame of a torch, combining many layers of colours to create one-of-a-kind beads. All of her beads are placed in a kiln and properly annealed immediately after leaving the flame. This means with proper care, they should last a lifetime. Fran works full-time at making her beads. She has always loved beads and making things with them. “It’s something I really love doing. It’s allowed me to travel and meet many different people. What more can you ask for?”
Cloud+Lolly Handmade Accessories
Once upon a time, there were two very different sisters; one with her head in the clouds; the other with her feet planted firmly on the ground. From this diverse pairing, Cloud+Lolly was born. Together, Cheryl and Laurie create inspired and innovative handmade accessories. Cheryl, a graphic designer with over 14 years of experience, has a clear passion for anything crafty, artsy and original. Cheryl has been selling her creations online and at local markets for the past 6 years; everything from magnets, to one-of-a-kind handbags, zipper pouches, graphic prints, and rings. Laurie, an insurance underwriter in the past, stay at home mom of three presently, brings great business sense, quality control and attention to detail.
Foil & Fusion
Life is Art
Pottery, Ceramics & Glass
Earth Art ‘n Soul Pottery
Michelle Wynnychuk started creating pottery in her home studio when her youngest child went off to school full time. Although she took several courses and classes along the way, the majority of knowledge she obtained is through her own exploration. She appreciates simplicity which is reproduced in her pieces using form, glaze techniques and texture. Extensive glaze testing is done to ensure quality and function-ality, allowing her pieces to be use directly in the oven, dishwasher and microwave. Her workmanship is an obvious result of passion, drive and dedication to her love of pottery.
Nathan Philips
Nathan Philips attended the Alberta College of art and Design graduating with a B.F.A. in glass in 1999. After working in various studios in Calgary, Brazil and Vancouver, he settled in Edmonton. He is attracted to both the immediacy and contradictory nature of glass; at once it can be fluid and dynamic yet hard edged and immobile, frozen in time. Nathan uses a great many techniques drawn from the history of glass; incalmos to create the separate colour elements, murrine and cane decoration to compose the patterns of the fields in his pieces. The techniques are joined together and showcased in a simple and elegant form. Nathan’s glassblowing has a highly technical component, yet in the awareness of the moment, constant adaptation to what the glass wants to do.
Kristen Young Ceramics
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Kristen Young spent much of her youth camping, reading and helping with her family’s bison business. Her first introduction to clay was in high school ceramics. After graduating, Kristen spent a year at the University of Alberta studying anthropology before realizing that she wanted to devote herself to clay full time. She moved to Nelson soon after to study at the Kootenay School of the Arts. She graduated in 2011 and returned to Edmonton to keep making pots. Her pottery is mainly stoneware. She produces wheel thrown and hand built forms, decorated with a combination of glaze, texture, carving, painting, or screen printing.
Visual Artists
Maria Pace-Wynters
Maria is a mixed media artist that works on both canvas and paper. Her subject revolves around what she revolves around: her daughters and life as a stay at home Mum. Not always easy but more than a little gratifying.
Bath and Beauty
The Laughing Dragonfly
The Laughing Dragonfly is a family run business and we have been perfecting our product for over six years. Initially, we started making soap for ourselves our of a love for, and a bit of an addiction to, hand-crafted soap. The Laughing Dragon soaps are made with natural and organic ingredients, as well as the purest essential and fragrance oils. We do not add any artificial colours, rather, we let the strong teas, herbs, and flowers that we add, lend their colour to out soaps. Their goal is to produce a luxurious, gentle, nature-friendly, and simply fun bar of soap.
Art Cards
Nicole Piotrkowski
Cheryl Muth
Henri Yauck
Moon K Studios
Lorraine Shulba
Laura McGlone\
Carrot Merchandise
Ceramic Handled Short Mugs – $20.00
Black Ceramic No-handle Mugs – $15.00
Travel Mugs (Green + Steel) – $20.00
Ceramic Mugs with Cork Stopper – $38.00
Cloth Tote Bags – $8.00
Music CD “Songs from the Ave” – $18.00
Intelligentsia Coffee (1 lb bag) – $20.00
Intelligentsia Coffee (½ lb bag) – $11.00
Canada Chai (1 liter) – $12.00