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Monday, September 29, 2008

Hiking in the Rockies


I went for a hike up Paradise Valley in the Rockies this weekend. It was spectacular with the larches turning. BUT, I forgot my camera!


So I am showing you images from a hike I took a couple of weeks ago. There were fresh mushrooms, toadstools and many other types of fungi lining the trail. They were so fresh, dewy & shiny they looked as though they had all emerged overnight. They are great inspiration for future fibre art work.
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Opus BA Studies


I have been so busy these past 2 weeks finishing up the summer module of work for the Opus BA course I am doing. This afternoon I put everything in a box and sent it on its way to the UK to be assessed. What a relief. It was a challenging module, all about learning to draw the human figure to express personal ideas.
This is an image of a quick stitch sample I worked up for 1 of the assignments where I explored mothers & roses.
It is already 2 weeks into the new semester so I now must focus on a new module of work.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Canadian Prairies Study


We, Articulation, went to the prairies in August to catch the harvesting of the crop. We saw the high tech modern way...


...where some famers use GPS as they move around vast fields.


We visited a restored historic farm, W R Motherwell Homestead, to see how it was done in the late 1800s.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Prairie Architecture


This is what comes to mind when one thinks of unique Canadian prairie architecture.


The wooden grain elevator standing as a sentinel for its town.


But there is a new sight on the horizon.


Mammoth 'inland terminals'.
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Farm Study


We (Articulation -the fibre arts group) had an amazing time this year (each year we go somewhere special together) ...


...out on the Saskatchewan prairies during harvest time.


Over the week, our host, Leann Clifford, a farm girl herself, kept us busy from dawn 'til dusk exploring all things unique, interesting & exciting to be found in the Land of Living Skies.
Each of us now has full flash cards, bulging sketchbooks, grain samples & an armful of brochures to work with to produce a body of work.
Thanks Leann for a wonderful, unforgetable week,
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Thursday, September 4, 2008

End of Summer



I have just got back from my summer holidays -time out on the magnificent Canadian Prairies and time in the Gulf Islands & Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island & the mainland of British Columbia. I'm still unpacking and catching up on life and need to put in many hours to complete the summer semester of my Opus module which is due in England soon.
It was 3 degrees this morning so it really does feel as though summer is over. Now for my favourite season.
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