The artist, Betty McLeod, is a native of London and founding member of the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild of London. She studied art at H. B. Beal Secondary School and has exhibited her work widely. Her latest award was for “Best In the Show” in the Competing Needle, a National Education Exhibit held in Nashville, Tennessee.
She has created many copes, stoles, frontals, kneelers as well as a pall for the RCMP in Ottawa. She designs and creates haute couture, soft sculpture and wall hangings. Her work is represented in collections in Canada, the United States and in St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem.
The Saint Aidan embroideries are a work of love for Mrs. McLeod who became interested in the teaching of Saint Aidan while traveling in Northumbria. Her love and enthusiasm are demonstrated in the painstaking care and imaginatively recreated historic detail replete in each work.
She was honoured by Dean Bruce Howe who named her our first Artist in Residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral.