Painting
my Light's Too Bright «Cold Dark Heart» | Pointe-à-Callière; Montréal, QC
My work makes monuments of sentimental items: this knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh — holds memories, experience, and age within its knots. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title,... More
a mother's knit | a bungalow; Tottenham, ON
Edition of 10 Working through a new medium and process of image-making dictates that I acquire a completely new "alphabet" with which to create new words and assemble new prose. Like a grandmother teaching her grandchild to knit, my hands... More
Painting
i can feel the Future breathing down my neck | Jackson Park; Peterborough, ON
An exploration of watercolour and gouache on paper, to find a method of working with the different medium that would best translate how I previously worked in oils.
Painting
Hope Less | Chutes Provincial Park; Massey, ON
My work makes monuments of sentimental items: this knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh — holds memories, experience, and age within its knots. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title,... More
Painting
Exeunt Omnes | Awenda Provincial Park; Tiny, ON
My work makes monuments of sentimental items: this knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh — holds memories, experience, and age within its knots. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title,... More
Painting
Giant's Tomb | Awenda Provincial Park; Tiny, ON
My work makes monuments of sentimental items: this knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh — holds memories, experience, and age within its knots. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title,... More
Photography
it Feels like Winter Follows You Around | Colonel Samuel Smith Park; Toronto, ON
Working through a variety of media including photography, I will continue to explore the ways that I may take apart and reassemble facsimiles (both literal and symbolic) of this blanket to craft new meanings and memorials. I hope to investigate... More
postcard | Esker Lakes Provincial Park; Kirkland Lake, ON
Working through a new medium and process of image-making dictates that I acquire a completely new "alphabet" with which to create new words and assemble new prose. Like a grandmother teaching her grandchild to knit, my hands stumbled through... More
Other
between | Baldwin Village; Toronto, ON
Working through a new medium and process of image-making dictates that I acquire a completely new "alphabet" with which to create new words and assemble new prose. Like a grandmother teaching her grandchild to knit, my hands stumbled through... More
Other
and a hard place | Grange Park; Toronto, ON
Working through a new medium and process of image-making dictates that I acquire a completely new "alphabet" with which to create new words and assemble new prose. Like a grandmother teaching her grandchild to knit, my hands stumbled through... More
Photography
holding, waiting, for Something | Colonel Samuel Smith Park; Toronto, ON
Working through a variety of media including photography, I will continue to explore the ways that I may take apart and reassemble facsimiles (both literal and symbolic) of this blanket to craft new meanings and memorials. I hope to investigate... More
Painting
We made it down to Old Town «Churches & Shadows» | Pointe-à-Callière; Montréal, QC
My work makes monuments of sentimental items: this knitted, patchwork blanket — crafted years ago by my Oma Vermeer-Honingh — holds memories, experience, and age within its knots. The context and location of each painting is provided by the title,... More
Work by
Bri Vermeer
Painter and printmaker
“Bri's current work focuses on the intersections of memory, disability, family textiles, and movement through both the built and natural environment. She happily switches between the intuitive process...” [More]