Category Archives: art

Working With Itten’s 7 Colour Contrasts

“Our sense organs can function only by means of comparisons. The eye accepts a line as long when a shorter line is presented for comparison. The same line is taken as short when the line compared with it is longer. Colour effects are similarly intensified or weakened by contrasts.” Itten The Elements of Color, p. 32 Itten’s 7 kinds […]

Read More...

Visiting Washington DC Museums – Textile Museum, Renwick, National Museum of Women in the Arts

After attending the Textile Society of America Symposium in Savannah Ingrid and I flew up to Washington DC with the intention of checking out the newly relocated Textile Museum now on the George Washington University campus. Unfortunately, our timing was not great. We could only enjoy the shop because the gallery was closed while a new exhibition […]

Read More...

Surprise Visual Treat While Out Malling

While rushing through the mall to pick up a few things I was slowed down by a visual treat. Mannequins dressed in blooms. Dressed by ‘Victoria’s best floral designers’ The mannequins were still being dressed so some weren’t complete. But I saw them when the flowers were at their freshest. The event was called ‘Victoria. […]

Read More...

Professor Kerry Mason Speaks About Emily Carr at the Gathering at the Edge

Professor Kerry Mason and world authority on all things Emily Carr gives a presentation to the Gatherers about the artist’s sketches, paintings, textiles and pottery. I have the job of introducing Kerry Sheila Wex, BC + Yukon representative for SDA and Barbara McCaffrey, Gathering at the Edge committee member. Everyone was captivated by the way Kerry […]

Read More...

All Beings Confluence – Martha Cole’s Community Project in Victoria

Martha Cole, a Saskatchewan fibre artist, has brought her monumental community art project to Victoria for the first time. You can see it in the Cadboro Bay United Church until May. “All Beings Confluence is a community-based, interactive project that was directly inspired by Carolyn McDade, a composer, social activist and environmentalist whose music has sustained and […]

Read More...

George Town, Penang, Street Art, Malaysia

‘Marking George Town started off as a competition initiated by the Penang State Government to physically brand George Town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2009, an international competition was held aimed at exploring innovative ideas in art and design for public spaces in George Town.’ Cannon Hole A canon shot fired during the […]

Read More...

New Work in Small Expressions and South Shore Gallery

‘Currency’ I have a series of new small works currently out there in CACSP’s Tulista Gallery exhibition ‘Small Expressions’ and VISDA’s ‘Current Threads: Garden Tapestry’ at South Shore Gallery. ‘Currency’ ‘Currency’ is about how many early tribes first used shells for money when trading commodities.  The most common shell was the cowry, (Cypraea moneta) but […]

Read More...

Jane Davies’ ‘Big Fat Art’ Workshop

I attended a Jane Davies’ ‘Big Fat Art Workshop, Jane’s Blog. We did many ‘technique’ exercises working quickly on large sheets of inexpensive paper. It was all about layers using many different media and working quickly to stop over thinking it. A sampler recording how to block out large shapes with different edges. An exercise […]

Read More...