Welcome to 2019!
The New Year was quickly upon us and January blew in fiercely, especially for those on the prairies who have been managing through extreme cold. Out west on Vancouver Island, Lesley spent days without power after some crazy storms. Annually we all realize we cannot combat the weather and so head to our studios and work spaces to get a jump on our respective projects after a busy holiday season.
Family was the common theme of our combined end of year focus: twins were born in Leann Clifford’s family and everybody is healthy and growing. Congratulations to another first-time grandmother.
Weddings and international travel consumed time for New Zealander and Vancouver Islander Lesley Turner who, as well as teaching her colour workshop to lucky participants, spent time visiting with her growing grandson.
Donna Clement has been spending the gift of time celebrating a milestone birthday with family and continuing her travels with family and friends, while Wendy Klotz has been inspiring the creative juices in her extended family. Marie Kondo’s mantra of “what brings me joy” has been infiltrating her work space and presenting some challenging decisions for a creative with supplies for potential use in future projects. Wendy has also rediscovered drawing as the Sudoku for artists.
Ingrid Lincoln has been hunkering down working to avoid the harsh winter weather on the prairies with a focus on the many projects under the Articulation heading in what will be a heavy year of exhibitions in 2019.
I (Amanda Onchulenko), am grateful to be back at work in my new smaller and decidedly warmer space and am enjoying my time experimenting on silk and canvas with dye. January’s focus beyond the flu was the very exciting launch of my first book, “Wisdom at the Crossroads”. It is available for online order through McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg.
Our first show for 2019 will be “Forest and Sea and the Place Between”, showing at the Portals Gallery in Duncan, BC. Its dates are March 26th - April 18th, 2019.
Now is when our time spent collegially doing site-specific research gives way to independent exploration and experimentation as we try to articulate our thoughts and intentions using our preferred individual processes.
Processes such as dying, painting, felting, stitching, printing, assemblage, and collage are in use as members are working through their inspiration and expressing them in fibre. Additionally, we are working towards confining our descriptions of process and intention to accessible sound bites and statements of 100, 50 and 25 words or less.
Tangents I feel are one of the biggest parts of the creative process. Through experimentation, we can sometimes find ourselves in a new and exciting territory and also a little further from our theme and foundation intentions. These works can be more challenging to encapsulate with brevity partly because of the enthusiasm these discoveries inspire. We do try though and hope you will enjoy our creative responses to the diverse yet fragile environment of the Salish Sea and the West Coast when you see the show.
Follow the links below to check out other members projects:
Family was the common theme of our combined end of year focus: twins were born in Leann Clifford’s family and everybody is healthy and growing. Congratulations to another first-time grandmother.
Weddings and international travel consumed time for New Zealander and Vancouver Islander Lesley Turner who, as well as teaching her colour workshop to lucky participants, spent time visiting with her growing grandson.
Donna Clement has been spending the gift of time celebrating a milestone birthday with family and continuing her travels with family and friends, while Wendy Klotz has been inspiring the creative juices in her extended family. Marie Kondo’s mantra of “what brings me joy” has been infiltrating her work space and presenting some challenging decisions for a creative with supplies for potential use in future projects. Wendy has also rediscovered drawing as the Sudoku for artists.
Ingrid Lincoln has been hunkering down working to avoid the harsh winter weather on the prairies with a focus on the many projects under the Articulation heading in what will be a heavy year of exhibitions in 2019.
I (Amanda Onchulenko), am grateful to be back at work in my new smaller and decidedly warmer space and am enjoying my time experimenting on silk and canvas with dye. January’s focus beyond the flu was the very exciting launch of my first book, “Wisdom at the Crossroads”. It is available for online order through McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg.
Small pieces in modular units combine to create a single statement in this pair from “Communities of Colour” by Amanda Onchulenko
Our first show for 2019 will be “Forest and Sea and the Place Between”, showing at the Portals Gallery in Duncan, BC. Its dates are March 26th - April 18th, 2019.
Now is when our time spent collegially doing site-specific research gives way to independent exploration and experimentation as we try to articulate our thoughts and intentions using our preferred individual processes.
Each exhibition space is unique and offers inherent challenges. How to best use the space to show the work most effectively is our first concern.
Processes such as dying, painting, felting, stitching, printing, assemblage, and collage are in use as members are working through their inspiration and expressing them in fibre. Additionally, we are working towards confining our descriptions of process and intention to accessible sound bites and statements of 100, 50 and 25 words or less.
Sometimes a plan for a single piece evolves into several versions of a theme. This work in progress was part of what was hoped to be a single intensively quilted project more than 4 square feet. Instead of being bound after quilting it was sliced into three sections and the auditioning of new compositional additions is evolving above. Sometimes we just need some time to think more deeply in our spaces.
Tangents I feel are one of the biggest parts of the creative process. Through experimentation, we can sometimes find ourselves in a new and exciting territory and also a little further from our theme and foundation intentions. These works can be more challenging to encapsulate with brevity partly because of the enthusiasm these discoveries inspire. We do try though and hope you will enjoy our creative responses to the diverse yet fragile environment of the Salish Sea and the West Coast when you see the show.
Working on a project sometimes involves collaboration, discussion and investigating a site in multiple situations.
Thoughts and ideas evolve. Here is an example of a tangent evolving as I wrestled with an environmental villain and textiles.
Follow the links below to check out other members projects:
Lesley Turner blog
Lesley Turner website
Wendy Klotz blog
Ingrid Lincoln website
Dnona Clement blog
Donna Clement website
Lesley Turner website
Wendy Klotz blog
Ingrid Lincoln website
Dnona Clement blog
Donna Clement website
Gathering ideas on group expeditions evolves into independent work for group exhibitions.
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