VCA2022

Haley Marfleet

Advanced Diploma
2022

Haley Marfleet reinvents everyday life through her vibrant, yet delicate, works of art. Residing in Amaranth Ontario, Haley draws inspiration from items, places and memories that are meaningful to her, and tells a story with each brushstroke. Branching out her practices into Orangeville, Haley was nominated as Student Artist of the Year for the 2021 Arts & Culture Award. During the summers while at her cottage in Georgina Ontario, Haley has been recognized for her artwork in the annual Painted Perch competition. She has won first place four years in a row. Her desire to pursue art grew stronger in high school, which led to four art contributions that can be found among the walls and outside the school. During those four years, Haley was awarded the Visual Arts, Media Arts and Dufferin Arts Council awards. In her final year she had her artwork selected and displayed at Insights: Juried Exhibition of the Fine Arts 2019, held in the Wellington County Museum. Haley recently graduated from the Visual and Creative Arts program at Sheridan College in 2022. She is currently working as a commissioned artist and running her Etsy shop, MarfleetDesign.

Website: https://haleymarfleet.myportfolio.com
Instagram: @h.marfleet

Birdhouse Typology

Birdhouse Typology

by Haley Marfleet

17.8 cm x 17.8 cm

Blooming Lilacs

Blooming Lilacs

by Haley Marfleet

It is fascinating how certain smells can transport one back to a meaningful place or moment in time. That’s what lilacs do for me; their scent reminds me of spring days spent outside my childhood home. This painting is a bittersweet reminder of a home I will never call my own again. Creating Blooming Lilacs was a way to memorialize and accept what is now in the past. The soft colours and delicate brushstrokes paint an image that resembles a season of new beginnings.

50.8 cm x 50.8 cm

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Haley Marfleet

Oil painting of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

20.3 cm x 25.4 cm

Chanel No.1

Chanel No.1

by Haley Marfleet

30.5 cm x 40.6 cm

Collection of Curiosities

Collection of Curiosities

by Haley Marfleet

I have always had a fascination with the past, wondering what life was like back then and how it differs from today. Researching historical time periods briefly pulls me into past worlds, making me wish time travel were possible. It is a form of escapism, immersing oneself in an environment that can only be experienced through daydreaming. In the Collection of Curiosities there are 9 lino block printed panels, all inspired by items from the Victorian Era. Each one depicts an oddity or unusual objects that people would collect and display in their homes to impress others. The main purpose of my work is to invoke curiosity, I want people to question things such as, “What is in that bottle? What does that key unlock?” To wonder what it would have been like to live during that era and what would have been in their own curiosity cabinet.

Mixed media linoleum block printing

Mapping Memories

Mapping Memories

by Haley Marfleet

This series is about about location specific memories and the objects associated with them. I wanted to focus on how certain objects relate to influential places and/or times in my life. Each work is created using a cutout shape from the map of Ontario and connected is a detailed pencil crayon drawing. The pieces of map represent the place that these memories to place and the drawing represents the object associated.

Pencil crayon and collage

22.9 cm x 30.5 cm ea.

Organically Sewn

Organically Sewn

by Haley Marfleet

Organically Sewn is about my connection to nature through growing a vegetable garden. My family began a garden in 2020, and since then it has been such a rewarding experience to be self succulent in this way. The ability to nurture plants as well as oneself, has strengthened my relationship with the natural world. Each piece was created by using a sewing machine, also known as freehand machine embroidery. I then stained the fabric with the fruit/vegetable depicted. The continuous, organic line and natural materials connect the medium with the meaning of the collection.

Thread on naturally stained cotton

20.3 cm, 25.4 cm, 35.6 cm

Puffin Bay

Puffin Bay

by Haley Marfleet

Multi block print of Canada's east coast friend, the puffin.

Lino Block Printing

27.9 cm x 43.2 cm

Roxie

Roxie

by Haley Marfleet

Commissioned dog portrait

40.6 cm x 50.8 cm

Summer Fields

Summer Fields

by Haley Marfleet

One of my favourite summer activities is walking through the flowering fields with my dog, Sammy.

Sunny

Sunny

by Haley Marfleet

Commissioned painting.

24.5cm x 24.5cm

Zelda

Zelda

by Haley Marfleet

20.3 cm x 25.4 cm