Exciting
the possibilities
with a piece
of art in
the form of
a triptych
Category Archives: News
Canvas Gallery – new work available
Canvas Gallery, my longest standing gallery has just received 4 new pieces from me. They wrote a lovely post on their blog about it. Here are the images a bit larger:
Aspire: 11" x 48"
"Ethereal Spheres" size: 26" x 72"
"Source 1" 30" x 30"
"Source 2" 30" x30"
Source 1 & 2 can be combined into a diptych that can be displayed in different ways. I regard the viewer as the final component in the creation of my work, and I have been striving to create work that allows the viewer to partake in this process through a choice in displaying the work. My abstracts provide very different emotional responses depending on the direction that they are hung. They can also be changed around and provide an interactive play between the viewer and the piece.
Enjoy!
Learn from Me… Workshop in Liquid Wax on Paper and Textiles at Meta4 Gallery
On July 16 and 17 I will be teaching a workshop at Meta4 Gallery in Port Perry. It would be lovely to have you in my class.
http://www.meta4gallery.ca/courseCalendar/Programs.pdf
To register, please contact the gallery directly, for questions, please contact me directly.
Post #39
Here we are
not quite whole
but healing
finding deeper inspiration
and sillyness
always
never stop
sillyness
Can't get the cast wet, can't wear gloves to not make it sweat, need to keep it on for at least another 2 weeks.
It happened when I was spring cleaning the studio. A heavy table top, too heavy for me to lift, fell onto the finger. I heard the most awful sound of the bone being fractured.
Finding some other ways to be creative. Yesterday:
Today: going to the ROM. Sketching. Wandering on my schedule, not Huxley's.
Tomorrow: Back to the studio, working on details:
Listening to: Sins of our Fathers, Stones into Schools, Angels and Demons (2nd Time around and still fun), Swiss-German-Austrian-drinking songs… (but no Bier to go with it).
Post #37
At the end of the day
after
full production
sunset
excitement set up
for the next day
to come
and see
the labour of the past day
sometimes very happy
sometimes not impressed
yet
always
it meant time spent
creation
the end of the day
too tired
to wash all the brushes
used up
me too
Written in permanent marker on the wall in the studio:
"Tears and doubt are part of the process in creating my art work."
On the I-pod: Song for Arboune, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, The Eight.
Post #35
There has been
doing at the studio
doing with paint
doing with creativity
doing with wool
wool to keep the flow
the way one strand of yarn
flows around in circles
circles of my thoughts
creation
becoming
playing
spur of the moment
collecting elements
letting them find their place
to make happy a very special somebody
that in turn is giving a precious something
too
going fishing for "remembering fishing with dad"
my dad only fished
as a young man
and a nest with baby hair
und eggs
beginning more
for the family that the baby lives with
that contributed its hair
because he is the first of more
flower in colours
so sweet and
different for me
in love
I am with it and
much more will come
Post #33
There are another two new galleries that now carry my work:
Galerie D'Art Internationale in Quebec City
and
Galerie d'Art Solange Lebel in Drummond, Quebec.
As promised, some of the finished paintings incorporating the elements in Post # 31
A new style of work, a whimsical feel, an altered return and yet a newly developed series of pieces. Another part of me laid bare to the world.
Post #32
There are some other new pieces underway at the studio, inspired by this piece:
The new poses where inspired by my own dancing, I had the exact poses in mind, but needed a model to act them out for me. My son and husband took the shots, I then sketched from the photographs. It's lovely to get exactly what I am looking for.
There will be a series of pieces in various sizes, but related, as the one piece was very well received. This work does not contain the resin finish my other work has.
In the coming week the pieces will be coloured and de-waxed. The panels are already prepared with laminations of old 100 year old dictionary pages. Working on the dancers, they "told" me that they are wisdom dancers.
Love it when that happens, the characters telling me what they are called… because
on my own, I could never come up with their names.
There is also work on commissions going on right now and a pick-up of a substantial order of panels is scheduled for tomorrow. In September my son will enter Grade 1, and after his initial settling in period this will mean a return for me to a full-time painting career.
Some new galleries are carrying my work as well:
Galerie d’Art Michel Bigué/Galerie Art Québécois
Terrence Robert Gallery in Ottawa
All arranged through my lovely agent Chantal Beauchamp, Imagin'Art. There are some other galleries in the works as well in Quebec, this is very exciting to me. I just wished I could ad some french to my blog, alas, it is not possible at this point.
Post #29
It has been too long.
A long time with much going on.
too much to tell here.
but now
for you
som
works in progress, exciting, with heart, with passion.
small pieces 8 inches by 8 inches. resin needs to be added to finish them.
Now too, a large canoe, inspired by bark canoes and Edwin Tappan Adney. He was born 100 years before me.. he hated artistic interpretations of the bark canoes, but here I am, creating them. Inspired by his meticulously created models. The painted one is very close in size to the models.
not signed yet, not sure if it is finished, but loving it. Will get a resin finish, trapping the history inside.
There are also abstracts in the works. but I will keep them to myself for a bit longer yet.
Joy