I am thankful to be emerging as an artist amongst others. I was invited to participate in snapshot- an opening installation for arc.hive, a new artist run centre in Victoria, BC ( Canada. ) The show featured visual, writing and musical notebook pages. What a rich show it was. I loved looking at every single... Continue Reading →
I spent an afternoon doing a study from one of my own photos. I started off with watercolour and soon found a new respect for watercolour florals! Thankfully white gesso rescued the picture and I am not unhappy with the result. A bit more needs to be done, but that's enough of experimenting for today!... Continue Reading →
Here is artist Clare Thomas with my installation of her work. Clare's drawings are about the fragility of memory, and are being shown in the Stairwell Gallery- a space at St Philip Church which is set aside to show art, and which I have the privilege to curate. It is wonderful that the minister, Christopher... Continue Reading →
Well, now to do the dishes! I had a fulfilling weekend with wonderful art and artists. Yesterday, an afternoon with the gorgeous Jill Ehlert and Natasha van Netten; this afternoon, installing the work of 3 artists in the Stairwell Gallery at St Philip. ( more pictures to come )
I had gone to bed worried about 2 things : 1) Is my work large or dramatic enough to say anything about war? Many drawings are small, in size and in subject: mothers and children who were close to home and did not have the ability or luxury to think in terms of the big... Continue Reading →
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