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.
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.
Transformation
winter to spring
materials through creativity
and technical input
into
creation
images made on the papers with no idea yet how to proceed, just taking them in, observing
Setting up and sorting through collage elements, some of these have been around for a while. Every time I create the images on paper I also play and create freely, using my personal symbols and background textures.
After creating a background on a wooden panel, I start laying out the images and let them speak to me.
Background painted, images laid out, title ready
"Memories of Fishing with Dad".
Background painted, images laid out, title ready.
Next steps are to stitch the papers together, laminate them to the panels, paint away.
Final outcome: TBD, it is still in the ether, waiting to be found.
Action is happening
the juices are flowing
creation is creating
more of itself
a happy artist
Detail of the newest Canoe piece
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.
In 2009, there was some playing at the studio
Old photographs, reworked with sandpaper, paints, fun, process. Inspiration for new direction of work, or simply having fun and nothing creatively is ever wasted. Everything leads to something. What–time will tell-or show-or sneakily insert into other pieces…. stay on your toes, you do not know what you might see.
Walk a year in my shoes…
you will create paintings
you will cry tears about missed times
where you will not create
because you do NOT hold the time in your hands
you do not have the time
your hands do not work when you have
the
time
they are painful
so no matter you feel
creative
you can not hold a brush in
those precious, rough, sandpaper like
hands
Walk a year in my shoes…
you will hold your family dear
cry with love for them
you will get paints on your hands
and can't get it off before you leave
so people will think it is blood
the blood of creation
Walk a year in my shoes
you will just have spent a year
grateful
disappointed
challenged
you will have gotten married
learned to sew french seams
in cream silk
felt low about the little time your day has
for you to spend at the studio
yet you will also have come to realize
that
important is
that the fast fleeting years you have with
your son so young
will be gone
too soon
so now is the time to worry less
steal time when you can
and treasure and be
grateful
because, oh, so handsome he is
So I fell out of habit of posting, got lazy, lost the routine and now I hope to jump back on. The reasons are many, most of them certainly justified the lack of posts from me. Should I rattle them off? Probably not, however, let's just say that having your DH replace his computer system and needing to have yours is not conducive to posting. I can't blog without Photoshop, something I just got back now.
About the average number of people passing by during the show (except the opening night which was packed with a large crowd. It was wonderful to see so many people that I know.
Currently I'm working on a large commission for a condominium reception area in downtown Toronto, as well as organizing my wedding for July 4th. There are also a wide variety of administrative changes I am making on running my professional practice (many of which will become evident later in the year).
The show was quieter than usual, with the most noticed absence the young families with children and strollers. The visitors that did attend did not seem to be in the mood to spend time taking in the work, rather just cruising through the aisles.