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Bluebird or Swallow House
Price: $$75.00 Item number: Sw BB 1
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Swallow or Bluebird House
Price: $75.00 Item number: 00790
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Biography
Nora McDowell has worked as an artisan/artist for the past 40 years, participating in craft shows and art walks and shows and in numbers of venues in Spokane, WA, Tacoma, WA, Sandpoint, ID, Vancouver, BC, Calgary, AB, and throughout the Kootenays.
Since 1994 Nora has created and sold her rustic, functional birdhouses across Canada, the United States, and beyond. She has received honourable mention for her bird feeders from the Out of the Woods Woodworking Show, held throughout the Kootenays of British Columbia, and her work has appeared in various magazines throughout the region.
In 1994, with the seed of a business in her mind, and inspired by a FDBD sponsored class for people wanting to start their own business, Nora began building birdhouses.
Never having done woodworking, nor having worked with power tools before, she began building with the materials at hand: piles of weathered wood, a wealth of interesting old objects saved by a father who never threw anything away in his life, and with creativity.
Nora and her husband, artist, James McDowell, have taken part in the Creston Valley & EastshoreArtWalk for the past 11 years and operate a working studio gallery, McDowells' Hilltop Gallery, from their home.
© 2006 McDowells Hilltop Gallery