Daphne Mennell
Daphne has been living in the Yukon since 1976 near the little town of Carcross. She has worked in a variety of mediums which include: watercolours, oils, acrylics, silk, soapstone, metal as well as a number of others. She is also a musician and composes for the piano, and has been involved in teaching many art classes as well as private piano lessons.
Her love of colour and light has drawn her into many of the mediums she has tried so far. Daphne has always been one who likes to explore new ways of doing things, and this has led her to creating the “metallic silk“, as she calls it, in her abstract 3D pieces. Her present philosophy is that, if she’s having fun doing it, then she’s on the right track. It is also very important to her that she continues to feel that her skills are developing.
Daphne has a number of pieces in private collections .She is represented with two pieces in the Yukon Permanent collection., “So you Want Out” a mixed media collage that is partially 3D, and “Mountain Drama”, her first experiment with “metallic silk”. If you visit the Yukon college in Whitehorse, you can see her major work called “Elemental“, a large triptitch made with different metals and paper mache.