EXhibit up! FRANCIS MORRISON LIBRARY GALLERY

 After 2 days and with the assistance of betty and ken, ALWAYS COMING HOME is up. I 'snapped' the few photos below with my less than stellar photog skills and cell phone. Next week the professionals get in to begin the development of the virtual tour, later to be loaded onto the SILS site. (Link will appear in this blog once provided)

The installation will be up until November 13. Individual or bubble-viewing by appointment is planned. 

This will be SILS first virtual gallery exhibition and very exciting for all of us involved. I would like to thank Stevie Horn and library management for agreeing to my proposal to create an actual walking & talking tour of the exhibit. 

To get a preview of some of the artwork return to home page and scroll down to an entry from september 2019. 

The exhibit was up for 2 months during covid-induced lockdown. During that time the Saskatoon Central Library Systems 

(SLS ) agreed to create a virtual exhibit so that the work could be seen.  It took 2 months to get it up and running. Check out the SLS site to see the exhibit, an audio of me reading the text on the pieces and a Q&A between gallery coordinator and artist ... moi!

QUIETLY

       This group of brushwork drawings were inspired by my love of the Daoist and Buddhist teachings AND my practice of mindfulness. 

An ink stroke is completely of the moment. There is no correcting. And on paper the ink expands as it will. The outcome is always unforeseeable.

(To see a portrait done in this manner go to early website entries and look for 'LADY OF THE FLOATING WORLD')

I am also exploring the unity in perceived division. Through the use of blocks of colour that could be seen as seperate; however are unified by the brushstroke. 

                     ALL paintings SOLD.  

Collection of roxanne and dean anderson.

              23"x30"    sumi ink on acrylic painted                              background on arches paper. 

 

INK PLAY

          Each of these and many more were sent as postcards during the Covid induced lockdown ... intriguing and delighting both recipients and the postal carriers who handled them. All arrived as pristine as when mailed. Thanku postal services  

REFLECTIONS

                          REFLECTIONS:
                       16X20   36X36   24X30
                    Acrylic on canvas or board

            

Inspired by the prairie skies. A purely abstract expression of blues and whites. 

 

JANUARY 2020

22x30  acrylic, sumi ink on arches paper

30 x30 acrylic

                                                                 COLLECTION OF Jo-Ann and Steve

what the silence brings

30x30"  acrylic on canvas

COLLECTION: Jessie and Tyler Gordon

30X30" acrylic on canvas 

COLLECTION: Dylan Elke

30x30 acrylic on canvas

FOR SALE: 300.00  

NIGHTSCAPES   23X30    acrylic and sumi ink on rag paper

 

The meditative process of rubbing a compressed cedar stick on a stone block in order to make sumi ink, precedes … followed by washing sumi ink and acrylic paint onto rag paper ... observing how they mesh to form these ethereal night skies …