My talks for the Victoria Arts Council, one at theDock and the other for Creative Mornings, I now consider as bookends. One beginning a call and the other confirming that call. I had come to a crossroads with my Christian community, both for personal and artistic reasons, and these were overlaid with historical and humanitarianContinueContinue reading “a dilemma, a reply and a call”
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small
Small, ink on watercolour paper, 8.5 cm x 8.5cm This piece done while I was immersed in my series A Complex Grief is a response to an historical image of a refugee child. During the Second World War, so many children bore the brunt of violence that in a PBS documentary about children and war,ContinueContinue reading “small”
the art of attention
“We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see….”– Richard Louv.How do we reclaim our intimacy with creation? How might we open our eyes and minds in a way that allows the revelation of God through creation into ourContinueContinue reading “the art of attention”
post card project
For the last number of weeks, I have participated in an initiative by a local contemporary artist collective BOXCARSIX in their Post Card Project. It was conceived as a means for members to be in touch with each other and continue making art together during the time of lock-down. Each artist would begin a card,ContinueContinue reading “post card project”
Until 5 Memory
I am very glad and grateful that four of my pieces from A Complex Grief are included in Victoria Arts Council’s magazine ‘Until 5’ which engages with the theme of memory. Here is an excerpt from the foreword: “In the following pages, there is a surprising array of interpretations to the theme of Memory. SomeContinueContinue reading “Until 5 Memory”
Cornelia van Voorst 