Articulation Textile Group

 Welcome to 2021! We hope the new year is a good one for everyone, full of good health and social connections, possibly even travel, definitely full of opportunities to implement your creative desires. As the new year begins and we can see 2020 now safely in our rear view mirror we can exhale a collective sigh of relief. The year we thought of as a year of revisioning and the offer of a new perspective, did exactly that. Just not in the ways we had originally imagined. 2020 brought us into our presence like no other year. It directed us to pivot our focus in ways we could never have anticipated a year ago. I don't think I know a single person who isn't somehow changed by the year that was. Change is our only constant. Hoar frost on the shores of lake Winnipeg is a welcome change. I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for opportunities that arose along the way. Terms like shut down and isolation came into common use and with the implementation of those terms came per

I am a 20-year veteran YMCA swimmer who was greeted at the pond this morning with a question. Are you taking any time off over the break to rest? It got me thinking... do I ever really take a moment to take in the enormity of what the past year really was? Do we give ourselves an opportunity to reflect, to even acknowledge all that has taken place? Amanda Onchulenko, 'Reflection,' Connected Heritage , New Iceland Heritage Museum, Gimli MB If you're like me, you are too busy: thinking, planning and doing, figuring out, keeping up or imagining what is next, but my friend made a very good point. To honour my friend's query in this brief season that hangs between Christmas and New Years, I will take this opportunity for a contemplative review of what we as Articulation Textile Group were up to during 2019. Leann Clifford, 'Ripple and Frond,' Forest and Sea and the Place Between , Portals Gallery, Duncan BC Its time to remind ourselves what evolved, what

West Coast Vancouver Island sunset Articulation Textile group is on the exhibition trail once again. This time we are headed to Portals Gallery, one of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council's galleries.  Find the Portals Gallery in the Island Savings Centre, 2687 James Street, Duncan BC (250) 746 1633 The gallery is open Monday to Friday 11am- 5pm, Saturday noon- 3pm. It is closed on Sundays and holidays. Articulation’s exhibition 'Forest and Sea and the Place Between' opens on Tuesday, March 27th at 11am  and closes April 18th at 5pm, 2019. An artist reception will be held Saturday, April 13th from 3-5pm with three of the artists in attendance giving talks. We hope you will join us.   Donna Clement leads an artist tour during the 'WAR: A Personal Response' exhibition in Sidney Museum. Our days spent searching shorelines for inspiration are long behind us and the revelations we have come to personally have evolved into art expressed in textile

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