September 5 – 28, 2024





FRAGILE DANCE featuring artist, Eileen Kwan Hand-embroidered tapestries. Toronto- based visual artist Eileen Kwan has been developing her voice through textile art since 2003. Inspired by the breathtaking landscapes surrounding her through her life – cycling, hiking and paddling across Canada, Australia, Brazil and France, Eileen fuses her fashion design training, garden design practice and exploration of embroidery to create her intricate tapestries.

Entirely handcrafted with cotton floss thread on linen or wool canvases, each landscape tapestry is completed with upwards of 250,000 stitches. Eileen’s visual art is driven by her reverence for the planet’s natural beauty and its infinite colour palette.

Through a mix of chain stitch, blanket stitch and throwing French knots, she explores the beauty of nature’s forever evolving elements from the land where the ancient trees emerge and dissolve under a body of water. The margins between land, water and sky are in flux, in a constant conversation with the rise and fall of the tide and light. Her work has been exhibited by Craft Ontario and the New York Foundation for the Arts.



Garden Design Practice current - 2008

McMichael Museum: McMichael Makers’ Market 2021

New York Foundation for the Arts 2014


Craft Ontario 2012



Her work is enjoyed nationally and internationally in private collections.

For details please email: info@samaracontemporary.com