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 […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...‘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...Grief Redacted Vintage linen tablecloth, cotton thread; hand embroidered. For my installation in Articulation’s ‘WAR: A Personal Response’ exhibition I have recreated my grandmother’s living room to reflect her mental state during WWI, WWII and the following years. I believe she suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) most of her adult life. The room I have […]
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 […]
Read More...I got a new sewing machine for my birthday. It is a Heavy Duty Singer that can sew thick and fast. My new Bernina 780 is not up to sewing thick layers of fabric, something I have had to accept after giving away my 40-year-old Bernina 830 Record which could handle everything I gave it. The Bernina […]
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 […]
Read More...“Our sense organs can function only by means of comparisons. The eye accepts a line as long when a shorter line is presented for comparison. The same line is taken as short when the line compared with it is longer. Colour effects are similarly intensified or weakened by contrasts.” Itten The Elements of Color, p. 32 Itten’s 7 […]
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