Jellyfish in the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea. Articulation has had 2 week-long study sessions exploring Vancouver Island’s coastal areas. The first was in 2007 and based in Duncan while the second was ten years later in 2017 and based in both Sidney and Tofino. All areas are within the Salish Sea biosphere boundary […]
Read More...The +Community Arts Council of Saanich Peninsula organises an annual festival celebrating the arts in the seaside town of Sidney, Vancouver Island. Many different events are happening, including the +SidneyFine Art Show and an evening of music, ArtSea Gala: Art in the Schools Fund Raiser . Both are held at the +Mary Winspear Centre.Many Sidney businesses participate by hosting […]
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...Here is my Postcards From Fundy series where I looked at the history of human settlement in the Bay of Fundy through the textiles the people made, wore and used. When people entered the gallery Wendy Klotz’s “Lost at Sea” work greeted them. It was so moving to talk to a man who had worked as a […]
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...Throughout this term of my studies I had continued to move along about 8 other dialogues out in the forest that I had established during the previous term. By the end of the winter term I decided my final degree exhibition would be about the tree cloths – a big decisions when I still had […]
Read More...After washing and ironing the eco-printed samples… ..i found them uninspiring. This Cedar stem showed the most potential as a dye source. I tore off pieces of the Cedar tree cloth and soaked them in a number of different pre-mordants,sea water… … almond milk and ash water. Each sample was coded with the different combinations of pre-mordants it […]
Read More...Last week Ron and I went over to the west coast to storm watch (and for our wedding anniversary).We saw several 1sts, including surfers riding waves while it was snowing.And we walked on a snow-covered beach for the 1st time. But over all the weather was mild At times it was sunny while it was snowing So […]
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