Gift Shop

The Gallery Shop, in the reception area, contains pottery, glassware, jewellery, books and unique gift items that are sure to please the discriminating shopper.

New to the Gallery Shop are unique pieces that support the CASA Relief International program. This group works in Nicaragua with talented, but underpaid, artists. CASA Relief gives these artists a fair price and an advance so that they can buy materials and live while they work. A percentage of the net profit is returned to the country. If you wish to look, please visit their web site .

Port Hope Gift Shop Featured Artisan - Susan MacDonald

Susan’s career began as a textile artist making art quilts in Toronto. For ten years she worked in her studio creating commissions, exhibiting her pieces and doing solo collections.

By 1990 Susan had diversified her practice t include wearable art. She relocated to Port Hope in 2003 and continues to create and sell quilt based wearable art under the label “Susan MacDonald, Wearable Art.” Her clients and individual customers discovered her work at major exhibitions, craft shows and studio tours.

Susan’s work has been sold at The Winnipeg Art Gallery Shoppes, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Moda Fashions, Stratford, Ontario; and The Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto to name a few. Magazines who have covered her creations include Canadian Interiors Magazine; Chatelaine; Travel and Leisure; Ontario Crafts Council Magazine; the Globe and Mail; and Now Magazine.