Articulation Textile Group

Our summer days in Manitoba are treasured. We look forward to that hint of lime in frozen slews in the spring that herald warmer weather and our getting out into the great outdoors. Eventually, the snowbanks recede and the hardiest of perennials make their way to the light. The robins follow and then every natural process miraculously accelerates. It truly seems like we wait forever and before we know it summer is here, then almost gone. Manitoba's Inland Ocean in the Interlake, Lake Winnipeg at Ponemah. Already at the lake, the days are getting shorter and the shadows a little longer. Soon we might even be able to get up for the sunrise without an alarm. Temperatures are increasing their span and mornings are notably cooler. Nothing any Canadian can't handle but definitely, that hint of a changing season is in the air. These lovelies have already turned their faces from the sun, could they be articulating a new definition for sunscreen?   My travels in the Interl...

Articulation and Material Girls' exhibition 'Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters' was installed in the Tulista Park Gallery, Sidney, BC. It hung for 14 days.... ...while over 900 people visited it. Now it has been packed up and shipped across the country to the Bay of Fundy where it will be installed in the Frazee Gallery in the Saint John Arts Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is a well travelled exhibition.

To let you know of our latest show, here are the details. The show is in Victoria, British Columbia. You are invited to attend: The Victoria College Of Art - Textile Exhibition by Articulation NARRATIVE ARTICULATIONS is a show of cross-Canada work by nine Canadian contemporary textile artists, all City and Guilds of London Institute trained. Each year the group, Articulation, goes to a special place in Canada to do a study together, then they return to their respective studios across Canada to produce a body of work based on the s tudy. The next year they exhibit the work. Articulation has had two residencies at the Banff Center, Banff, Alberta. They are currently working on a body of work to be exhibited in the Whyte Museum, Banff, in September 2011. Curated by Lesley Turner, the Victoria College of Art - Fine Art Textiles instructor, the free exhibition will fill the walls at the college with over 50 textile-based works. The artists will be in attendance during the opening reception...

One day Donna, Lesley and Ingrid did a side trip to Shutz Falls, just west of Duncan. where we sat in the forest, amidst the greenery, and sketched... And another day was a trip to see the old-growth Douglas Fir forest in "Cathedral Grove" in the MacMillan Provincial Park along the Pacific Rim Highway heading west towards Tofino with Donna, Lesley and ReBecca... where we discovered fungi of many different types. But first we drove further north and pulled in off the highway and again wandered deep into the forest to sit and sketch. And then back to wander through the posted informational signs in Cathedral Grove .

It wasn't all study, sketch, photograph... we also made sure we were kept lubricated and rested. At this cute little English pub in the country, I found this plant the likes of which I have never seen before. This is no stunted Prairie growth! It is taller than the building beside it! this is me inside it, looking up the above ground root system what is this plant??!!?? And true to Vancouver Island's mild climate and rainy roots, flowers were still blooming profusely.