"The Medusa Imaginal" was published in Revisioning Medusa: from Monster
to Divine Wisdom.  A collection of work by women honoring Medusa in all her mystery, Re-visioning Medusa includes essays, memoir, history, fiction, poetry and art. A 2017 publication by  Girl God Books.

FEMME is a group exhibition at Impresario Artisan Gallery in Cobourg showcasing 8 local and regional artists and artisans, who explore how their creativity can heal self, others, community and the Earth. The diversity of themes and media in this exhibition emphasize the healing powers of art-making on the body, mind and soul, and how the expressive arts can become a daily transformative or spiritual tool. Women have always been the wisdom keepers and healers, and we continue to “empower our dreams”  to communicate and connect, and to envision new directions and new worlds through our art practice and healing modalities. Join us as we celebrate the provocative, revelatory and transcendent aspects of Women and the Healing Arts.

"At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer ~ a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity." Rachel Naomi Remen

"Women and the Healing Arts" features FEMME, an exhibition in the main gallery, a Holistic Marketplace featuring the work of artists, artisans and other makers, and a schedule of workshops with modalities in the healing arts.  All welcome!

"Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing."
Julia Cameron

"I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever."  Susan Griffin

"Creativity healed me. I don’t know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing."  SARK

"It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference."  Patricia Johanson

"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here."  Patty Mitchell

"The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit."  Angeles Arrien

I've lived in big cities like Vancouver and Toronto, but I've always been drawn to wild places, so embracing the rural life has become an essential requirement for my happiness and peace of mind.  And yet visiting the city for a day or two, and experiencing  diverse offerings in art, music, theatre, literary festivals and global cuisine can be incredibly exciting. On a hot summer day in 2018, I found myself stopping to admire the many street-level murals that line the avenues in downtown Toronto. The vibrant colour and large-scale impact of this public art was so phenomenal, I found myself experiencing the beauty in a somatic way, by immersing my whole body in the composition and reaching up, to embrace the artist's vision. Clearly, the theme of the work changed with the introduction of the human form, and the these kind of spontaneous acts can be one aspect of public art. Overall, the transformation of urban walls into spaces of imagination and joy, is an art lover's dream come true~! 

My womancentric artwork (mixed-media and embroidery) has been featured on the covers of the feminist journal CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES!

"CWS is a feminist quarterly featuring current writing and research on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible community of women. During 28 years of publication, a forum has been created for women to  exchange ideas, personal experiences, expertise and creativity. By demystifying our communications with one another, we are actively working towards serving as a middle ground between the scholarly and the popular, between theory and activism."

Canadian Woman Studies is an indispensable resource for the feminist reader! Learn about CWS and order your copy >HERE<

Cast paper, linocut printmaking, mixed-media   IN PRIVATE COLLECTION

"Bella Botanica" details >click on image to enlarge<

With a wide circulation across Canada and beyond, it is a thrill to have my photography accepted for publication in a thematic issue of Room: Canada's Oldest Literary Journal By and About Women.  Edited by Amy McCall, "Back to Natural Hush" focuses on fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art that engages with re-landing in place, our stewardship of the natural world, bioregionalism, localvore, natural cycles of growth and death, the wonder and beauty of the land, and our timeless connection to  the wild. Our bonds to nature are both spiritual and grounding, and in contrast to the distractions of urban life, in nature there is "ample calm awaiting here / to ease jangled voices / back to natural hush." (Excerpt from the poem "Ritardando" by Adele Graf.)

There is beauty in nature everywhere if we stand still long enough to notice it, and the feminine forms that Pegi Eyers has captured in her photographs portray an elegance that can only be found in the natural world.    Editor's Letter by Amy McCall

In 2016 I took on a "fundraising through the arts" project, and as Event Director, Jurist and Arts Publicist, organized The Art of the Leaf, a Gala and Art Auction Fundraiser for Transition Town Peterborough.  With a small team we installed the exhibition as part of TTP's Purple Onion Festival, and in addition to selling the art by silent auction, offered an educational component and art workshop on the importance of trees and sustainable living. The event was a huge success, and was only made possible through the amazing support of local artists and artisans. Their kind generosity is so much appreciated~!  Given a blank masonite "leaf" form, the diverse multimedia creations submitted to the show were absolutely brilliant.  Here is a sampling of the artwork from that incredible day.   

From 2010 - 2013 Pegi Eyers organized and curated "The Art of the Turtle," an annual gala and art auction fundraising event for the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre. Raising close to $20,000 overall for the Centre, she initiated the submission process, juried work from over 200 local and regional artists, designed the publicity program, created the exhibition catalogues and labels, and set up the shows with the installation team. "The Art of the Turtle" featured incredible support from artists, collectors, animal lovers and the general public, and offered a diversity of turtle-themed works from artists and artisans including painting, mixed-media, sculpture, carving, paper crafts, assemblage, stained glass, fabric design, metalwork, ceramics, jewellery and home decor.  With love and thanks to the many artists who contributed to "The Art of the Turtle!"