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. 

A Visit to the Alberta Art Gallery

I finally made it to the Alberta Art Gallery this past Sunday to see the exhibition on Canadian landscape titled "Season to Season, Coast to Coast; A Celebration of  the Canadian Landscape"
which runs until February 20, 2017. It is a very solid exhibition with some of my favourite artists: David Milne, Illingworth Kerr, Dorothy Knowles and James Davies, one of my instructors from the University of Alberta (Faculty of Extension). I also stopped by to see my own small piece in the "Showcase" display on the main floor.

My piece "Shadow Dance" is on bottom left, second from the left.

"Showcase" exhibit at AGA

Sorry for not posting but Christmas preparations and shopping are a priority right now. Along with putting up the Christmas trees and planning the Christmas eve menu, I am going to deliver one of my works to the AGA for exhibition in their showcase "Small spaces/Big Ideas." This piece is a mixed media/collage work. My piece, along with several others, will be exhibited January 10 to March 10, 2017.