Articulation Textile Group

One never knows when a flash of inspiration for a work will strike. Often an article stimulates a childhood memory and links to later life experiences. Are you old enough to remember when general stores wrapped their customers' purchases in brown paper torn off a large roll..... ...and tied it with string. In the home, both brown paper and string were kept, along with the purchase because both had many further uses. Recycling is not a new concept, but maybe it could be expressed as an idea in a work using brown paper to reference another time of recycling? Hand-cranked sock making machine Textile related artifacts in museums often attract the eye of a fibre artist. Textile history is as long as human history so the fibre artist has a treasure trove of knowledge and techniques to pull from. Spinning Niddy Noddy for making yarn into skeins ready to dye. Every culture fashioned tools and equipment to work with fibre and cloth. Often these tools are '...

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...

What's more cultural than taking an English High Tea in a French Chateau? Leann walking on the Dufferin Terrace towards Chateau Frontenac... The High Tea menu... Tea selection... and lunch... l to r: Lesley, Wendy, Ingrid, Donna, Leann... top layer of sweets... middle layer of baking... bottom layer of sandwiches (shrimp mousse, duck pate, smoked salmon, asparagus, cucumber)... Delicious day!