Bev McNaughton

As a child, I'd spend hours building elaborate playgrounds for birds.  I would outfit them with tightropes, pulleys and parallel bars fashioned with bits of thread, tinfoil, mud and beads. I would envision them having nightly performances and delight in the fact that I made these little dioramas.  I suppose little has changed since those days in my parents backyard in the North of England.  I still play with thread and mud, only now I use these materials to create mixed media installations and functional ceramic pieces.

Bev McNaughton received her BFA from the University of Windsor and her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan.  McNaughton has received numerous awards for her work and is in the collections of the University of Windsor, University of Saskatchewan, The school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and many private collections.