Art on the Line 2012

Art on the Line is a fundraiser for the UBCO Visual Course Union to help pay for the 4th year show for the graduating  visual arts students. With the purchase of a ticket, cost $175, you have the opportunity to go home with 1 piece of contemporary art. Students from UBCO and members of the art community donate works to this juried event. Once you arrive and select your favourtie pieces, you go into the auditorium where the ticket numbers are selected at random and when your number comes up you can pick the piece that is next on your list. My piece "Abstract in White", was picked by the 25th ticket and now is at home in someone's house.  I hope they enjoy it

Process Painting and 4th Year

Mark Rothko

In 4th year painting, one of our assignments is to do 3 paintings 40"x40". We are to research 3 artists, one of whose art we have seen live in person, and combine these 3 styles into our own painting. I chose Mark Rothko, Marc Chagall and Michael Adamson, a Canadian born Toronto Artist whose work I saw a SOPA Art Gallery here in Kelowna. We also have to do 'drawings' and I have decided to do my on 9"x9"pieces of raw canvas, old paintings cut up, water colour paper, old water colour paintings....so much stuff hanging around the house that I don't like so I might as well recycle it. So today is the beginning of the process and I began with Rothko. I may never get to Chagall's images...but maybe his colours or his feel or probably his fiddler which to me will always be symbolic of the jewish faith in which I was raised. They create a similar feeling as do the Basler Waggis that for me are a symbol of  the Basler tradition

Michael Adamson  All the way to California

Marc Chagall Fiddler on the Roof

Do you love hats as much as I do?

 Well, I think I am a hat addict....I can't stop knitting them. I used to say I would knit about 10 per winter season....But I knit 4 since yesterday so I think I have surpassed that number already. My problem began when I started working in a yarn store....how can I try all these wonderful yarns in a short period of time. It takes me forever to knit a sweater...so that won't work. The only solution is something small and fun. Growing up in a cold climate has made me realize that if you dress for the cold you won't mind it as much. I wear hats...yes it does ruin my curls, but it keeps my ears from stinging. I actually wear the hats I knit, well except for the last bunch, they are baby hats...I had to photograph them on my felted heads as I have no babies to try them on.

If I Told You My Story...Would You Listen? 4th Year Show

 My pieces are now in the Fina Gallery at UBCO as part of the 4th year graduating class. The piece with the steel sculpture and felt balls is called What Colour Are You? and the piece with the felted heads is called If I Told You My Story Would You Listen. 
What is not visible hear in the picture is that one of the heads has a speaker in it and it repeatedly asks the same questions...trying to call attention to the viewer. The colourful ball sculpture has a motor in the middle which stirs the balls.

What Colour Are You?

Welded Steel and Wool Fleece

My work has dealt with the exploration of combining wool and steel and trying to find a balance between the two. I have concluded that the steel often ends up being a support or container for the wool. The idea that the steel could be construed as masculine and the wool as female was my original starting point. I felt the need to defend the idea that working in wool and using it as a sculpture tool is not to be designated as craft but serious art. In the end I was lead to the conclusion of “who cares”. The steel is stronger and holds the wool and that’s okay....just as the wool is soft and colourful and allows the steel to shine.

This piece is my attempt to display a visual reference for the oneness of mankind. People, though they may look different and believe different things are all human beings made of flesh and soul and spirit.

The idea that your life does not affect mine is for me an illusion and construe of society to allow bad things to happen in the name of the greater good. I believe that even though you live in a far away country and I have no visible relationship to you...your life affects mine in the matrix of mankind. The reality that you live in will change the reality that I live in and vice versa

If I Told You My Story...Would You Listen?

Wool Fleece and Media

This installation piece is the beginning of a larger piece that will explore the stories we tell about the lives we live. The faces are the untold stories of women as they meet and interrelate with one another. I want the viewer to listen to the stories that are told but I also want the viewer to imagine and hear the story themselves by looking at the faces and listening to what they hear.

My Studio

It is really fun to finally have a studio...I can leave my mess and no one can complain because its my space. This picture is at the beginning before I got all my stuff into it. I have collected a fair amount of metal and have eased out into the middle space. Avery...my visa a vie studio partner doesn't mind as she has moved out and we meet in the middle.
My faces are coming along...I have quite a few more now and intend to have alot by April...watch for pictures from the 4th year mid term show

Fabulous Finds: We did it

Fabulous Finds was fun. It was great being around all the other artisans and watching the people go by. It wasn't exactly the venue for Luka's Hip Hop hats. The crowd was more or less older than his hats, but it was a great experience and we both learned alot. There didn't seem to be a lot of fibre artists in the crowd either as there wasn't that much interest in the fibres. The biggest hit was the the pair of pink baby booties. Everyone touched them and cooed.

Fabulous Finds at Summerhill Winery

Come and visit us at Fabulous Finds this Saturday....Luka and I have a booth...VBS and ColourSparks
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