NEW works II

 

New Works

 

In situ

Acrylic on canvas

(2) 24x24: (1) 36x36

24x24

 

06/21

                              Acrylic on canvas

                                       24x24

                   

 

06/21

 

24 x24

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24

Acrylic on canvas

24"x24"

Acrylic on canvas

 

PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE

  

                                24"x48"

                         Acrylic on canvas

                             

Another ...

                                24"x24"

                         Acrylic on canvas

                       

JUNE 2021

36"x36"

Acrylic on canvas

 

BLACK AND WHITES

24 x 24

Acrylic on canvas

350.00

36x36"

Acrylic on canvas

650.00

#1

30"x20"

Acrylic on canvas

250.00

 

 

APRIL 2021

                           Chasing Dragons

                                 16" x 40"

                                  acrylic

                                    450.00 

 

                      CHASING DRAGONS, TOO

                                  16" x 40"

                    Acrylic on textured canvas

                                  450.00

                                Spring Falls In

                                    30" x 20"

                                     acrylic

                                     350.00

PRAIRIE WINTER 2021

                                                                         24" x 30"

                                                                    Acrylic on canvas 

                                                                  

from david hinton's China Root

 "Wu-Wei is also a fundamental assumption guiding artistic practice ... For them (taoist artist-intellectuals), this wild calligraphy was conceived as a form of Ch'an practice or teaching: wild empty-mind moving with the selfless spontaneity of Tao or tzu-jan. It was a way of moving there in that generative moment where the Cosmos perennially creates itself, for when a calligrapher first touches inked brush to a blank sheet of silk, it is that originary moment where Presence emerges form Absence. And as the brushstroke traces through its arcs and twists, it is always there at that originary moment, just like awakened mind. It is wu-wei become visible: awakened mind moving with the unbridled energy of the Cosmos itself, Presence tumbling through its myriad transformations. "    

dle's EXHIBIT @ FRANCIS MORRISON GALLERY, SASKATOON

Murmuration by Helen Mc Donald Artwork by Kate Sweeney

Ink Play

             All of these are sumi ink on rag paper 

They vary in size slightly  but are approximately

                                 13" x 22"     

                  

 

EXPERIMENT IN DISTANCES

In 2020 I sent these pieces of a whole to a number of friends throughout the US and Canada. Each received a piece of a larger painting, framed. I have for many years been experiemting with the idea of: how far apart can a painting that comes in several pieces exist as a whole. Most of the time I did this with triptyches by separating the pieces with a greater and greater distance between them. 

This time I separated the pieces by many many many miles. Yet in my mind they remained a whole piece. Each standing on their own. united through origination.

of course, this was only for me ... the gift of the work itself was given ... however, unless an inquiry was made, no explanation was given. 

I love the simplicity of the pieces ...

 

 

STIX 2018

 

These pieces were inspired by a drive I took back through the Washington State's Methow Valley in 2014 after another in a series of devastating summer fires. Once I settled into my new studio in Saskatoon I returned to those photos and this was the result. These pieces were the first time I used primarily line and ink. each piece is on ragpaper 23"x30"   or 30"x23". 

Look closely to see the use of a variety of weights and thicknesses of ink.

DANCERS

                                         Playful images in ink and acrylic paint.  18"x12"