I heard an interesting documentary on The Sunday Edition about Nora Deacon, an artist who sews pretty smocked dresses out of paper patterns. She was inspired by the dresses that her aunt (who happens to be Olivia Dehavilland) sent from Paris when she was a child.
One day, Nora Deacon was showing her paper smocked dresses in a city park in Toronto. An enterprising Ontario art gallery owner wandered by, offered her a show and before you could turn around Nora Deacon's work was hanging in New York and Chicago. It is quite a story and Nora Deacon is as surprised by it as anyone. This morning, Karin Wells bring us her story in a documentary called 'Cousin Olivia's Dresses'.
See more of her work at the A.K. Collings Gallery. I plan to check it out on my next trip through Port Hope.
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