Articulation Textile Group

Articulation meeting under Weyburn's war memorial. This is a hint for an upcoming body of work. Another exhibition we visited during the Weyburn Fibre Art Walk was FAN's (Fibre Art Network) travelling show "Abstracted." Artists paired up to express an idea or phrase, one artist working in a representational style and the other artist in an abstracted style. Above, 'Colours To Live By' showing houses typically found on the rocky east coast of Canada. Marianne Parsons used raw edged machine applique in a representational style. While Karen Johnson worked in a more simplified style, also using the raw edge machine applique technique, 'Nature's Patterns' Left - Dale MacEwan, representational. Right - Deb Tyson, abstract. Both worked in the same colour palette, but different techniques produced quite different results. 'Portal' Left - Lily Thorne, representational Right - Patt Wilson, abstract

Articulation members: Ingrid Lincoln, Donna clement, Amanda Onchulenko, off to see another exhibition in Weyburn's Art Walk. We all enjoyed looking at Jaynie Himsl's collection of work. It stimulated a conversation about one's own style being connected to a particular technique. How one takes something and makes it one's own after many hours of working a threaded needle, sitting in front of a machine, wringing dyed cloth or squeezing wool fibres to make felt. Jaynie takes her inspiration from her natural environment and her garden. Her simplified macro or micro views are expressed using threads and a sewing machine.  She has developed a particular technique that is now identified with her style of expression. More yarn bombing. That means there is another fibre exhibition nearby. Monika Kinner-Whalen is another Saskatchewan artist inspired by what she sees around her. She also uses thread and her sewing machine but to quite a differe

An exhibition we all enjoyed was 'All Beings Confluence,' an interactive community art project spearheaded by Saskatchewan artist Martha Cole. She runs workshops in different communities across North America giving guidance on how to make large, transparent panels. She then loans collections of panels, according to the number requested, to be hung in a wide variety of spaces in many different communities. Viewers walk between the panels to enjoy works up close and to see the layered effects as different panels work together, such as these hens scratching beneath the flowers behind. Each panel is about one living being. It was interesting to note how many weedy-type plants were chosen when so much of the landscape is covered in commercial crops. This female connection with 'weedy' plants is from the time when women gathered them to feed and care for their families. This ancient knowledge continues to surface in women's artwork today. It is typical o

Here is Articulation working hard on their 2015 Retreat - at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Hotel and Spa . From left: Lesley Turner, Ingrid Lincoln, Amanda Onchulenko, Donna Clement, Wendy Klotz and Leann Clifford taking the picture. Unfortunately, Shannon Wardroper couldn't make it to this retreat. Here we all are, off to our water yoga class in geothermal water with the same mineral composition as the waters in Bath, England. After going through the yoga possess outside on the rooftop patio, we transitioned into the hot pool and moved through the poses again. We sipped an ice cold glass of water then rested. One of the main activities of the week was to get an idea of the sort of fibre art currently being produced in Canada's western provinces. Weyburn was the perfect stop with its 'Fibre Art Destination 2015' event with 16 different exhibitions. We had to work hard to see them all over the 2 days we had in Weyburn. The first stop was at t

In September we spent time in Victoria, B.C. We visited the maritime Museum and did research in its library  The Museum Claims to have the Oldest working elevator in Canada. I don`t know about that but I liked the pattern of the grill Then there is always Emily Carr. Here with her monkey. There are always flowers. hydrangea my favourite.

Of all the churches we visited this was my favourite. The ceilings are covered in mosaics with lots of shiny gold tiles. The floor mosaics are in cooler colours. A woman doing science experiments. There are lots of geometric mosaic patterns on the floors... ...and on the walls. All most inspiring. In one of the chapels there is a coarser mosaic on each roof arch. Not fine work but somehow very appealing by providing a human scale in this massive building.

The 3rd Canadian showing of Articulation and Material Girls' bodies of work opened in the Frazee Gallery on November 8th, 2013. ReBecca Paterson made it all happen. Bay of Fundy work and the River Thames work was hung together. Touching is allowed/encouraged       The exhibition is open until January 10th, 2014 Congratulations ReBecca, on presenting the work so well in the beautiful space you found.