Omanie Elias has a life-long passion for creating fine arts and crafts in all kinds of media. Originally focusing on pencil, pen, watercolour and oils, she’s been experimenting recently with acrylics and pastel. Omanie also designs, creates and occasionally restores leaded glass, sews historic costumes, sculpts, makes leather masks, marionettes and needlefelted 3-dimensional animals, all subject to the time allowed by her career as a scenic artist and set designer in professional theatre. She’s won scholarships, worked on commission, participated in exhibits (both group and solo), and been a proud member of Braid St Studios since it first opened in Sapperton.

Crawl Location: Braid St. Studios, Studio 17