ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

In my young years as a Danish child in a non English speaking immigrant family I “read” my mothers Danish knitting pattern books to fill the time. This may account for the knitting medium.

As an artist I am passionate about colour and texture and use my knits to surprise and encourage in the wearer a confidence of expression. A confidence to wear the unusual and to enjoy how it feels and how the colours shift and adjust depending on the light of the day or space one is in. A confidence to wear magic.

My work is usually created with natural fibres in many colours – wool, silk, cotton, linen, and mohair, and for textural experience and visual excitement include artificial fibres to further enhance a unique item. I am also using the newer yarns such as bamboo.

I have exhibited for a number of years at the Compendium Gallery in Auckland New Zealand, and created pieces that have gone to New Zealand, the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland, East Timor, and Denmark. In New Zealand my work has been included in exhibitions in Auckland, Napier, Wellington, and Whangarei.