Coming from an art background, Bay started a farm based business, Honey Pie Hives and Herbals, in 2000. What started as performance art – a traveling medicine show – became a way of life where every aspect from designing and building a straw bale farm house to creating healing balms with hand drawn labels is part of her artistic practice.
Her passion for community building led her to involvement in farmers markets and organizing craft shows including the popular Busy Hands and the new Gather in the County textile market.
Ontario College of Art – drawing and painting, 1994.
A year of study with the off campus program in Florence, Italy, 1993.
Exhibitions: many local shows as well as across Canada.
Artist’s Statement
I’ve been a painter for a long time as well as a natural dyer and knitter. In the last few years I’ve started to make art using the fleece of local sheep as my medium. I dye the wool, spin it and use knitting and crochet to make art inspired by the natural environment I live in. I love the intersection of art and agriculture. I’m particularly interested in rewilding and the process of decay and regrowth as nature transforms the human attempts at domination into the wild again.
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