This year Articulation members collected in Winnipeg Manitoba to begin their annual 2016 Study Session. Winnipeg has wonderful artwork on its buildings – old and new. View from the rooftop of Mandy’s studio building. This rooftop building has stories to tell. Descending Wendy, Mandy, Donna Go to the Articulation’s blog link here to see more of what we got […]
Read More...On the ferry, crossing to Saltspring Island for the day: to visit Articulation member, Shannon Wardroper’s home and studio, to check out potential gallery space and time for a little retail therapy. Stitches Fibre Art Supplies, http://www.stitchesfibreartsupplies.ca/ very kindly opened up their store just for us, even though it was Sunday. Continuing our study of railway hotels […]
Read More...Articulation members at work; Lesley Turner, Donna Clement, Ingrid Lincoln, Leann Clifford, in the inner harbour. The Empress Hotel is in the background. First appointment was a morning visit to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria http://aggv.ca/ to see ‘Kimono: Japanese Culture in its Art Form’ with many magnificent kimonos revealing the complex codes and etiquette […]
Read More...Each year Articulation does study in a special place in Canada. This year they are in Victoria researching the maritime history of the west coast of Canada. Donna climbing up the stairs from the waterfront to the street full of old warehouses, hotels and shops. Into The Maritime Museum, up in their iron elevator – […]
Read More...The 1st showing in Canada of the Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters exhibition opens in a month, at the Cre8ery Gallery in Winnipeg. The name of the exhibition explains how the it came about and also it’s content. Articulated Materials – Articulation, a Canadian group of fibre artists teamed up with a similar group called Material Girls, […]
Read More...I have started working on a new body of work It began with an Articulation study week, where we explored the Bay of Fundy.Here we are stopped for a roadside lunch I have decided to explore all things red because it struck me as the dominant colour whereever we went around the coastline.Fields of red-leafed low-bush blueberries. […]
Read More...We eat in a Chinese restaurant in Sussex…. … before beginning our AGM. Saint John is full of interesting architecture. Here is one in the Second Empire style, popular with the French speaking Canadians long after Napoleon was deposed in Europe. Donna and Leann in ‘the oldest common law market in continuous use in Canada’ […]
Read More...More local architecture – a Classic Revival/Gothic Revival mix of forms, possibly expanded as the family and fortune grew. With the front door a step from the road I don’t think they use that door much. When we arrived in Sussex a ‘Take Back The Night’ march was going on down Main Street. So some of us […]
Read More...This is the view on the right as one enters the 1st of 3 exhibition spaces.‘Reading The Past II’ – mine‘Hoodoos’ – Ingrid Lincoln‘A Hole of My Own’ – Vickie Newington‘A Walk in the Park’ – Leann Clifford ‘Fallen Leaves’ – Donna‘Sucession’ – mine ‘Sleeping Giants’ – mine‘Outwash’ – mine This is a poor image […]
Read More...Friday morning Wendy and Bob hang the last works. People coming to the exhibition in the Victoria College of Art, open the front doors and see my ‘Reading the Past I’ from the Badlands body of work. Then they look up the stairs, to see Vickie Newington’s Winnipeg – ‘The Colours That Lie Within’, which […]
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