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 …

                                                                                                                   

 

ALWAYS COMING HOME: 12 pieces

ALWAYS COMING HOME. Memories from a prairie childhood.

I recently returned to Saskatchewan after many years living away: across Canada and the USA, plus a few forays into other countries along the way. Ever since I re-settled I have been wondering: where is home? what is home? Does one ever find home? can one? or is this simply memory? These works on paper began to come to me in 2018, however reached their fullness in 2019.

They represent memories of life in a small farming town, through the eyes of a child, the journeys of her ancestors as they settled the land and then finally of our present day.

What is it about returning to the land of my birth? not the country but the land. These prairie horizons. sun. grasses. those winds. the prairie-raised people.

My husband says that I am different here - not the woman he has known for 35+years. What does this mean? am I?

I am not the person I was when I left those decades back. I am way more. Is it true you cannot go home again? or is it simply that you are not who you were when you left? so yes, then one cannot go home again! Is it possible also, that the one who left was left in the land and once returned that woman also returns? Who am I? and where is home then?

One answer is that home is within me. Is it? Or am I within it?

Anchored by birth. Formed by those people and experiences beyond this land. Boundaried by the self that grew up and out.

And so, we are 'Always Coming Home'.

Each piece contains a memory-story from my prairies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAINTINGS 2016

 In 2016 I bought a home in Saskatoon and began to move from my home in Bellingham. First living only summers in this new home and returning to a studio-less apartment in B'ham while my husband awaited his permanent residency. The pieces below came out of that first summer.

 

 

 

NERUDA'S LEGACY   36X36  

INK, GESSO AND ACRYLIC PAINT ON CANVAS

 

 

 

ENTER YE WHO DARE   48X36

INK GESSO AND ACRYLIC PAINT ON CANVAS 

 

450.00

 

 

triptyches I have known

 

Over the years I have attempted four. I like to consider how great the distance between elements of the piece on display before the piece no longer reads as one entity.

 

COLLECTION: Roxanne and dean
 
2008

2008
COLLECTION: SHELBY AND JORDAN ELKE

2007

GEOMETRICS

 

SNOW FALLING   24X24 

                                              COLLECTION: DAR AND DAVE NEW,
                                                        BELLINGHAM, WA.

 

CALLIOPE   36X36

COLLECTION: CORT RAITHEL @ TRANSAMERICA

BOSTON, MASS

 

AND THE CENTRE DOES HOLD  36X36

COLLECTION: LUKE AND LYNDSEY ANDERSON

REGINA, SK

 

 

 

JAKOB'S LADDER  48X60  2008

COLLECTION:  JERN'S FUNERAL HOME

BELLINGHAM WA

 

2007

PAINTINGS 2011-2012

                  SUMMER ROAD   48X48   2012
                          acrylic on canvas

 

                        SOLD:  charlie elke

 memories of those hot hot Saskatchewan summer days. And the narrow little road that was only open to traffic in the summer. A great road for those sunday after church leisurely drives 'looking at the crops'. Lots of little hills at which dad would gun the motor of the car so that on the downhill we would get that roller-coaster lurch to the stomach. Sweet laughter. 



 

 

FALL FROM GRACE   48X24 2013

  

NFS 

 

 

I HEARD THE EAGLE CALL MY NAME

60X48

COLLECTION: BRUCE ELKE

 

 

 

 

EXHUBERANCE   60X60   2013

COLLECTION: CHARLIE ELKE

 

 

 

 

MOTHERING   48X26   2011

 

MOTHERING #2   48X36  2011