Steaming the wrinkles out of Origins after it traveled in a box from Gimli, Manitoba to Duncan, British Columbia. This is minutes before the Artists’ Reception of Vancouver Island Surface Design Association’s annual exhibition, Current Threads 19. This work is about a group of Icelandic people settling in Canada bringing with them their material culture and […]
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The Surface Design Association’s 2019 biennial conference, Beyond the Surface, was in St Louis, Missouri. It was held in conjunction with the Innovations in Textiles 2019 a three-month-long event held every four years. With 43 participating venues and a large number of other museums and other historic buildings in the St Louis area, SDA members attending […]
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Lesley, Lingrid, Laura, Louise Opening Reception Dualities exhibition, Cre8ery Gallery website, Winnipeg May 9 to 21, 2019 What began in the studio results in an exhibition with many steps and stages in between. Ingrid Lincoln standing by her work at the Opening Reception, May 9, 2019. Nearly half, if not more of an artist’s time is […]
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‘Dualities’ is the brainchild of Ingrid Lincoln. She invited three other artists to join her in expressing this concept: Laura Feeleus, Louise Lamb and me. The four of us are exploring two very different geographical locations – the vast expanse of the Canadian prairies with its continental climate of extremes and native plant cover of […]
Read More...During the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association (VISDA) ‘Pathways’ exhibition in the Portals Gallery, Duncan, a member sat in the gallery each day. When it was my turn to sit with the exhibition I had a lovely day. When I wasn’t talking to visitors I had time to look at every work, then I had knitting […]
Read More...Sarah McLaren and my ‘Colour: A Personal Response’ exhibition is on the road again. The day before we loaded up the car…it was really full… …and caught the first ferry the next morning. We drove through Vancouver’s persistent rain to Place des Arts Art Centre and Music School in Coquitlam. Conveniently there was dry underground […]
Read More...Opening Reception of Colour: A Personal Response – Lesley and Sarah. Thank you, Louise, for thinking of and taking a photograph of the 2 of us on the night of the opening. The gallery waiting for the first viewers. Each of the works is monochromatic, made using only one colour. We hung the work with Sarah’s […]
Read More...Sarah unwraps her artwork. The first task once we got access to the gallery at 6:00 Sunday evening was to set up tables to work from. We laid sheets on the floor along all of the walls we were planning to hang on. We did a check to see if it would all fit in the space. […]
Read More...For the past 2 years, Sarah McLaren and I have been producing bodies of work based on how we feel about specific colours. I have produced 24 works, each one exploring the energy I feel from a specific colour. Sarah has explored each colour through the works of one of her favourite artists. Here is her ‘Modigliani in […]
Read More...The annual Vancouver Island Surface Design Association Currents Threads exhibition will open on April 15 and run until April 30, 2017. This year the group is returning to the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith. All of the work will have been completed in the last 3 years and has not been shown in any Current Threads exhibition before. […]
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