“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 […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...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 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...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...Bicycles made into street art Bicycle Sculpture Family/Tourist Cycle Returning from the market passing motorbike as street art Bicycle for going to market each morning Motorbike carries produce bought at the early morning fresh market Parking a bicycle in front of a shop on the 5 foot way A 3-wheeler for carrying BIG loads Motorbike […]
Read More...‘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...‘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...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...After a wonderful open house where many friends came to help me celebrate the completion of my new studio, I wasn’t sure I needed to continue writing posts about the place. But one of my sisters said of course I did. She wants to see how the space works, and how it doesn’t work, and […]
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