Above and below in Linda MacKay's work. She silk screened her photographic images & drawings onto dyed cotton.
A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Banff March 29
This is Ingrid Lincoln's work. She is Queen of the Deconstructed Screen. She generously shared her knowledge of this silk screen technique with all of us. Deconstructed screen printed cloth features prominently in the exhibition because we all found the technique very expressive.
Above and below in Linda MacKay's work. She silk screened her photographic images & drawings onto dyed cotton.
Above and below in Linda MacKay's work. She silk screened her photographic images & drawings onto dyed cotton.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Banff Art Centre - March 28
Loose Threads: Works In ProgressSome of the work we did during our month-long stay in The Banff Centre, as self-directed, Leighton Colony artists-in-residence.
The Hanging -Ingrid, Donna
ReBecca
Friday, March 27, 2009
Banff March 27
Last night was finally the night we got to hear the compositions by the 5 composers who have been living in The Centre for the past few weeks. And here we are patiently waiting an hour before the performance for the chance to get in. There was room for only 20 of the general public. And we made it.
Each composer wrote on the theme of Evolution to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. This image is of Vincent Ho's score. He won viewer's choice.
Andrew Staniland won the major prize and also the commission from an orchestra.
We all had a wonderful time. It was a most memorable experience. CBC will have the performance on their website for the next year so we will be able to relive the experience.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Banff Art Centre - March 26
We spent time yesterday putting up this poster to advertise our next exhibition, which begins tomorrow. We will hang in the morning and attend the opening in the afternoon. Family & friends are coming from Calgary for the event.
We have been handing out small invitations, with this image on it, to everyone we know around the campus.
Must go. I am spending the day in the dye studio.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Banff March 25
I have put in a few more hours on Woman Mountain. The red triangles are feminine, the blue/green triangles are masculine.
We attended Sandra Hawkins' (aqua shirt) artist reception. She has been on a self-directed residency in Glyde Hall this month. She has been working with her journals & photographs from her time working in the Arctic.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Banff March 24
Yesterday, when I got back to my room after working in the studio all day, I found this beautiful vase of flowers on my desk. I have a secret admirer.
Being in Banff for the month, Donna and I would have missed our monthly neighbourhood book club meeting, if they hadn't come up to the mountains today and had the meeting here with us! Left - Ann Cockerton, Cindy Johnson, Roberta Davis, Donna Clement, Sharon Gainor, Jan Brummit
Monday, March 23, 2009
Banff March 23
This was the walk to the studio yesterday. There was not as much snow on the ground because the trees had caught so much of it. But when we walked back to the dinning room at lunch it was warmer so big blobs of snow fell on top of us & we were quite wet when we arrived.
The campus is a buzz this week. Many of the artists in residence are finishing at the end of the month. They are pulling all-nighters, planning their open houses/exhibitions/presentations, and getting their publicity out around the campus.
There is much excitement in the music & sound area of the campus. I have seen people looking at large sheets of music over breakfast, people carrying hard black cases running between buildings, a filming crew following people and now the music huts near us have little pink signs on them. On Thursday we will hear the results of all of this activity. It is eagerly anticipated event.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Banff March 22
We woke this morning to see fresh snow. This is the view of the dining room from the Lloyd Hall 6th floor balcony. With glass on 3 sides it feels like an eagle eerie when eating in there.
Yesterday I worked in my room in the morning then after lunch in our studio in the woods. (I'll need my snow boots to get there this morning.)
I am strip piecing furnishing fabrics to make whole cloth.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Banff March 21
I spent yesterday morning in the Whyte Museum, in Banff township. I was looking for artifacts in the museum's collection to work with. I am focusing on the equilateral triangle as a symbol and I found lots of examples in the current exhibition.
Beading on moccasins
Friday, March 20, 2009
Banff March 20
Yesterday morning, when we were in the dining room, we saw performance art. A person was standing with a bag over her head & a sign on her front, that read 'Failed Artist'. Even though the room was a buzz with conversation about her there was no interaction with her and she was ignored.
This morning she was there again with a different sign, 'Great Artist'. This time people shook her hand, danced with her & gave her a big hug. Most of the interaction was with non-artists, mainly people who work for a bank.
The artist, Flossie Peitsch, said she felt personally the different effects the 2 signs had on the way she felt.
We have just finished 4 intensive days with Martha Cole, which proved to be invaluable because of all we learnt about ourselves, our group and life as an artist.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Banff March 18
Last Sunday I took the afternoon off and went cross country skiing with Ron. The fresh air and vigorous exercise was mind clearing.
Today we are continuing our sessions with Martha Cole. This morning we learnt some strategies for coping with negative criticism of our work - great tools to have when putting your work out there.
Gloria is working on a large hand embroidered work. She is covering great expanses with french knots. One afternoon Ingrid offered to help out and make knots for her.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Banff March 17
We are now into our 3rd week here in The Banff Centre. On Sunday, Vickie Newington, the 7th member of Articulation to arrive, brought Martha Cole with her. Martha is a successful, established artist who we asked to join us for the week to work with us to get ourselves as individual artists and our group to the next level in our development.
We have been working on exercises focusing on becoming aware of our strengths these past 2 days. We rented another studio space in Glyde Hall for the 4 days of the workshop. We have each covered a section of the walls with our work and a diagram of our interests and strengths which we continue to add to and rearrange as items emerge from the exercises.
This is what my part of the walls looked like 1st thing this morning. I have since added to my strengths & interest diagram and taken the bottom right work off the wall because it doesn't reflect the characteristics of my style.
This evening I have an individual critique with Martha, which I am very much looking forward to.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Banff March 15
Wonderfil is a thread manufacturing company headquartered in Calgary. They generously donated boxes of machine thread for our Women Rock project. I think most of their employees are sewers and one contacted her quilting guild to tell them about our project. She told me, for several days she would find bags of treasures left on her front step. People had been saving leftovers for something special and this project in the mountains seemed right.
I brought the cache up to The Banff Centre and we set up a 'shop' in the sewing studio. We go shopping when we are looking for something we don't have. It was quite a challenge to anticipate what we would need to work on for a month, especially for those in the group who had to fly here. We have also been able to offer materials to other artists in The Centre also.
I am using some of the donated materials in this thread-rich piece. Here I am sampling using Valerie Campbell-Harding's strip piecing technique. This patchwork cloth will be cut and re-joined with a cover stitch many times before it is done.
So a big thank you to the staff at Wonderfil for supporting and enabling Articulation's Women Rock project.
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