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 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...