Savonnerie de L'Estrie
I'm Kara Needham, an artist and artisan soap maker from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Since I'm not very good at keeping my websites and social media pages updated I decided to turn what should be two websites into one:)
I was born and have always lived around the beautiful Knowlton area, and with my partner Steve we share five daughters and a century year old house under our own constant unenthusiastic construction, a large garden full of blueberries and flowers (especially lavender) and a love of beekeeping!
I'm a self taught artist and have always enjoyed drawing and painting as long as I can remember. After completing a college degree in wildlife and forestry management I somehow ended up spending over 15 years working as a naive-style folk artist painting furniture and specializing in wooden door-knobs (Folknobs) and being involved in local artist co-ops and artisan shows. I developed a love of natural soap making at the end of 2011 and started my business Savonnerie de L'Estrie in 2012. I designed and painted all of the logos for the Savonnerie de L'Estrie packaging - in the beginning for each soap label I created a little painting of a different well-known building or landmark here in the Eastern Townships (if you are interested in seeing them you can still check them out here.) I still love to paint and so have dedicated a page on this website as my art page for anyone interested in buying or just viewing some of the paintings I have made over the years and am still in the process of creating.
I was born and have always lived around the beautiful Knowlton area, and with my partner Steve we share five daughters and a century year old house under our own constant unenthusiastic construction, a large garden full of blueberries and flowers (especially lavender) and a love of beekeeping!
I'm a self taught artist and have always enjoyed drawing and painting as long as I can remember. After completing a college degree in wildlife and forestry management I somehow ended up spending over 15 years working as a naive-style folk artist painting furniture and specializing in wooden door-knobs (Folknobs) and being involved in local artist co-ops and artisan shows. I developed a love of natural soap making at the end of 2011 and started my business Savonnerie de L'Estrie in 2012. I designed and painted all of the logos for the Savonnerie de L'Estrie packaging - in the beginning for each soap label I created a little painting of a different well-known building or landmark here in the Eastern Townships (if you are interested in seeing them you can still check them out here.) I still love to paint and so have dedicated a page on this website as my art page for anyone interested in buying or just viewing some of the paintings I have made over the years and am still in the process of creating.






















