Christine Rivers

Christine Rivers’ Artist Statement

Water over sand
I have been looking at water and trying to weave it for years. I took the online Weaving Water course with Elizabeth Buckley. This is one of the tapestries that I wove in the course. It is the transparency technique. I wove water coming in over sand. I have watched the water and waves carefully, and I think I finally have woven it so that it reads as water and foam over sand. It was so much fun to weave. Now, when I go to the beach, I look at the water and see my tapestry waves and foam.

Murmuration Collaboration (my part)
Twelve tapestry artists from the UK, Canada, the USA, and the Netherlands have collaborated in Zoom meetings and woven the Murmuration Collaboration. It is about the flight of the starlings as they murmurate in the evening sky. The birds fly from one tapestry to the next. My tapestry is in the centre. I wove some larger birds and lots of the dense pattern of the flying birds in a group. The birds from the tapestry next to mine fly into my tapestry, and then they fly out to the next tapestry. We took two years in planning and finally in weaving. More information is available on Facebook at Murmuration Collaboration, on Instagram at Murmuration_collaboration, and Substack at murmurationcollaboration.substack.com

Inspired by our forests and Emily
I spend a lot of time outside in the forests of the west coast of BC. The trees are tall, towering over me when I am hiking through them. There is a presence and power to the trees. I was
inspired to weave tapestries of the trees that give so much to me. I wove a group of three tapestries to represent a few of the trees that I hike among.

Christine Rivers’ Biography

Christine has been weaving since 1977, and weaving tapestry since 1998. She lives on Vancouver Island, off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She loves tapestry weaving, beading, running, hiking, climbing, yoga, cycling, swimming, and being outdoors. Christine is a Salish-style weaver, weaving ceremonial regalia in wool and in cedar. Christine brings her life experiences and culture into her tapestries. She is a member of the Canadian Tapestry Network, American Tapestry Alliance, the British Tapestry Group, and TAPis – Tapestry Weavers of Vancouver Island. Christine’s tapestries have been shown in Canada, the USA, Australia, Britain, and Mexico.