‘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...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...The Community Arts Council of Saanich Peninsula is hosting its annual ‘Small Expressions’ exhibition in the Community Arts Centre at Tulista Park, Sidney BC, March 4 – 30, Tuesdays to Sundays, 10:00 to 4:00 pm. A team of us spent 9 hours the first-day accepting work and hanging the show. One of the challenges with hanging […]
Read More...I want to make another post about the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association’s current exhibition because every work is such an excellent example of the many techniques fibre artist’s have to work with. The above detail is Linda Elias’s “Beet Harvest” where she used actual beets and leaves on a Gelli-plate to print on the […]
Read More...The studio is ready to be ‘loaded up.’ The first step is to assemble the shelving, but I need to also have the stuff to go on each shelf ready to show where to place each shelf, working from the bottom up. This procedure makes the most of the shelving space. We took the furniture […]
Read More...This is the project station, with its wheels attached. The open space is for long things, like bolts of fabric and long rulers. Mick is asking us where we would like to have the drawer handles placed. It is hard to make an on the spot decision about something one hasn’t considered before. Ron is […]
Read More...The hot water tank is installed in the crawlspace below the tub. This energy efficient placement means little heat is lost between the hot water tank and where I need the hot water. South Shore Cabinetry made and installed the cabinets and some of the furniture. Here are my drawing and design desk areas… …backed by […]
Read More...Edge of the Forest Exhibition Opens The first exhibition of the Canadian Surface Design Association’s ‘Edge of the Forest’ opens in the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Richmond Hill It is up for all of March. There is an opening reception on March 11th. Here is the rest of the schedule, to date: April […]
Read More...The conditions were right: no wind, sunny, fresh leaves falling fast. It was the right time to sun-print. I lay an old door on the grass and covered it with plastic. I had a collection of leaves I had picked up on my morning walk. Three Setacolor transparent greens were mixed and thinned with water. […]
Read More...One of the morning exercises was to analyse different patterns and to find examples of different types of patterns to put in our Pattern Dictionaries. Elisha is working out how this pattern was made. Elisha working with a new stamp she carved. See below the resulting pattern. Charlotte’s new carved stamp produces a number of […]
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