‘Earth Repair’ began as a response to what I considered to be an emergency situation. March 11, 2011 – quoting from my journal – ‘Emergency. It has been a long winter here on the island. The deer are hungry. They are eating the bark on my precious Indian Plum. I need to care for this tree. The […]
Read More...While in New Zealand recently we visited the Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens to see the 2016 exhibition. This was one of my favourites. After walking along the hydrangea avenue one sees at the end Janette Cevin’s ‘Hydrangeas’. Large-scale hydrangea paintings with their glossy highly decorative metal surfaces covered in acrylic and resin are larger than life […]
Read More...Lesley Turner website – lesleyturnerart.com Shamina Senaratne website – shamina.info/ Terry Phillips website – terryphillipsartist.com/ Connie Chapman website – constancechapman.weebly.com/ Deborah Dumka website – deborahdumka.ca/ Donna-Fay Digance website – donnafaydigance.com/ Judy Alexander website – judyalexander.ca/ Laura Feeleus website – laurafeeleus.ca/ To find out more about any of the works visit the ‘Edge of the Forest’ […]
Read More...After Kerry Mason’s talk, there was time for a quick lunch at the Habitat Cafe on the Royal Roads University campus before walking across the road to the edge of the forest. Gaia College instructor, ecological landscape designer and consultant, Manon Tremblay (centre) took the first group upstream for their walk in the forest. She […]
Read More...Pattern Language #159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room Problem – ‘ When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit from only one side unused and empty’ p. 747. ‘In rooms lit on one side the glare […]
Read More...While making pillow covers from molas, I also used the Sewing Centre. View from the front door looking at the Project Table and Design Wall. The Sewing Centre is to the right. The Sewing Centre is basically the same setup I had in my old studio. It worked and I couldn’t come up with a […]
Read More...Pattern Language #134 ‘If there is a beautiful view, don’t spoil it by building huge windows that gape incessantly at it. Instead, put the windows which look onto the view at places of transition – along paths, in hallways, in entryways, on stairs, between rooms. If the view window is correctly placed, people will see a […]
Read More...Continuing with a diary about how I use spaces in my new studio, as requested, I have used the crawl space. During the Green Shed Open House, a friend offered me some of her Japanese indigo harvest. How wonderful. I visited her and came back with many large bundles of freshly cut indigo. I couldn’t deal […]
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 […]
Read More...Friday Preparations Daughter Katherine set up the studio for serving food and drinks. Son-in-law Sebastian cleaned the windows inside and out…. …then joined Ron in spreading mulch over the rough construction ground in front of the studio. Having a well-earned rest. Daughter Elizabeth and boyfriend Cody arrived the next day and were in charge of […]
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