Local Show in Sherwood Park

The summer time is a bit of a slower time for me as I tend to focus on my garden (this year the weeds are definitely winning the battle with all the rain we are getting). I do have a couple group shows happening however. In Sherwood Park, I am one of four artists that has our art work displayed in the Atrium at the Strathcona County building. My works will be there until mid-October.

Summer...Art Workshops, Rain, Rain, Rain and a Couple of Art Shows

Wow! It has been three months since I last posted on this blog. Yikes...While our summer has not been the best...rain, rain, rain so it would appear to be a good time to do some indoor painting. However, I have been busy attending a wide variety of art classes...a  5 day fused glass workshop (wonderful), an abstract landscape painting workshop (fantastic) and a gardening workshop. With the August long weekend just around the corner, I can now apply all this new knowledge ...looking forward to sitting down at the easel.

There are a few summer time shows that I am participating in. I have the St. Albert art walk at The Bookstore for the month of August (opening/artist reception August 1). I have several pastel works on display in the Atrium in the Sherwood Park Community Center. And finally I was lucky enough to have two mixed media works juried into the "Air" exhibition which is currently on display at the Alberta Art Gallery.

With fall going up fast, I am getting set to prepare for the upcoming fall shows.

                             One of the small paintings I will have in the St. Albert art walk. 

Next Show This WEEKEND

I am participating in the St. Albert spring show "Alive".  Currently I have one painting entered but I am quickly finishing a second one.

Jasper Vantage I

An Unusual Show

I decided to challenge myself by entering a textile and fibre show. It was an "open" competition (no jurying involved, thank goodness) so I took a couple monoprints that were laying around and decided to incorporate elements more frequently associated with textiles into their composition. This activity required that I "think outside the box". I am quite pleased with the results of both pieces (don't know how the pieces will stand up compared to other mixed media works) but,overall, I enjoyed the process and the result. 

What Lies Beneath 

A Spring Art Show With a Twist

So in this year's annual art show for the Strathcona Art Society it was decided that artists would choose a photo (submitted from the public) and interpret the image in their own style. Up to three artists could work with a particular image. So with the photo I chose there were two other artists who also did representations of that image. It was really interesting to see our interpretations done in three different mediums (soft pastel, oil and acrylic). I  thought this innovative approach to
establishing an art show worked really well....loved the look

Winter Thaw...Spring Thaw and Spring Shows

With winter finally behind us and spring on the horizon, the art shows are coming fast and furious. I have works in several group exhibitions; the first show is this weekend (March 29-31) at the Ottewell Centre/Red Barn in Sherwood Park.

Hope Springs Eternal (soft pastel), 16 x 20 @ Ottewell Centre

The next show is in St. Albert at the Hemingway Centre (VASA) for their annual spring members show. Two of my works were juried into this show. I also have two works in the "Uncommon Threads" exhibition in Spruce Grove. (April 16 to May 3).

 I also have a solo exhibition at the Glenrose Hospital of my acrylic "quilt paintings" which opens tomorrow (March 29) and runs until June 27.

Waves (12 x 24), mixed media

How to deal with the Winter Doldrum...

This winter has been long and very cold. To combat any winter "blues" stop by the Muttart Conservatory (Edmonton). My exhibition of Alberta landscapes in soft pastels has only one more week before it is taken down. So stop on by...