Bay of Fundy - Day 1

Nine Articulation members spent the day flying across Canada to Moncton on the east coast of Canada where we are spending a week doing research for our next body of work.

While we waited for out last member to arrive around midnight, we went for a meal in a nearby restaurant.
I have decided to taste test sea food chowders around the Bay of Fundy while I am here. This is my first taste. It was worth a 7/10. People here sure know their potatoes. What ever kind they used in this chowder was perfect.

Here we are BEFORE walking on the ocean floor. The after picture will follow.

Next morning we packed the 2 vans - one for the big bags and the other for day packs and the cooler with our picnic lunch.
And off we went heading for.....

Dialogue Continues

The maple tree is showing signs of turning.

It is time to continue my dialogue with it.

I laid a soy soaked table cloth underneath it.

Now I am waiting for the leaves to fall.

Back To Work

Now that Articulation's exhibition in the Victoria College of Art is over, I am back to work on my dissertation for my BA(Hons) degree studies. The subject of my dissertation is a study of my mother's embroidered afternoon tea cloths as I seek to explain why women embroider flowers.
I have put images of the cloths up on a board so it is easy to constantly refer to them as I read, make notes and write the first draft.

A friend lent me this fabulous book that is proving to be an invaluable support for my argument.

I still have the last of my work to store away after it was hung in the exhibition.
Yesterday I took 2 works down to Polychrome, a gallery in Victoria that is mounting the Victoria College of Art faculty show. Unfortunately I will miss the opening because I will be on the east coast of Canada.

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I have started packing for that trip - my plane ticket and a juicy book to read.
The trip is this year's annual Articulation study session. We are exploring the Bay of Fundy. ReBecca has organised a jam packed itinerary for us. We are all very excited to be getting together again and to be beginning the research for new body of work. We already have some great plans for it.

Take Down

After a most successful 2 week exhibition in the Victoria College of Art, we took the work down, re wrapped it and took it home.

The classroom was turned back into a painting room.
Today Donna and I re wrapped work securely and took them to the post office to return to their owners.
The washing machine is still going cleaning all of the white sheets we used to lay work on while planning the hanging and the black drape cloths have all been washed. So all that is left for me to do is to put away my own work.

The President estimates over 550 people came through the school to see the work. Many of those people were in the school for the first time so he is pleased with the way the exhibition pulled people in from the community. Some who live nearby have walked past the building for years and not ventured inside.
Some of the visitors commented that they used to go to the school and hadn't been inside for years. Several commented it looks much cleaner - a result of custodian, Keith's, loving care of the 100 year old building.
This broad exposure for textile art is one of Articulation's objectives so we are pleased with the event.
I am alos pleased the hand stitching course i am offering in November is full and has a waiting list. The January course is already a third full.

Articulation Demos & Tours

After a successful opening night, Articulation members conducted tours . . . here's Wendy leading a tour . . .

. . . demonstrations . . . Ingrid demonstrated collage techniques while Wendy and I hand stitched on her creations. Audience members sometimes took over the stitching and were delighted when they were given a sample.

Donna and I did the tours and demos the 2nd weekend and gave tours to a number of different groups the following week.

People watching the demos practiced making backgrounds on burlap.

Victoria College of Art

Here is more of Articulation's works presently hanging in the Victoria College of Art.
My 'Provisioning' in the Winnipeg body of work.

Gloria's 5 encuastic handstitched views of Winnipeg architecture.
On the right, ReBecca's 'Winter Willow'.

Miriam's exquisite bags, 'Tyndall Bag' and 'The Memory Bag', from the Winnipeg body of work.

I donated a work from my Arctic series for a draw. The president of the college, Professor Peter Such, will be pulling the winning business card from the basket tomorrow.
Tomorrow afternoon Donna and I will be taking the work down. Donna will be driving the Calgary works back over the mountains and we will post the other works home.

Articulation at VCA

On the left hand side of the upstairs room:
'The Day the Queen came to Tea' - mine and Donna's 'All That Glitters Is Not Gold'....

...and next to that my 'Cryosphere'.

On the end wall: my 'Black Rock~White Cliffs~Blue Sea' and Wendy's 'Frobisher' portrait.

Also, my 'Compass With Lattitude'. All in the 'Frobisher' body of work.

Articulation Exhibits

This is Wendy's Links response to 'Multi-colour, wearable, beads. She said she had fun 'going completely over the top with this mask.'

In the upstairs room is 2 bodies of work - Winnipeg and Rainforest.
on the left is Vickie's 'Big Sky Country' and my 'Walls Talk'.

Ingrid's 'Night' and 'Day' and Vickie's 'The Colours That Lie Within', both Winnipeg works.

Left: ReBecca's 'Winter Shore', below Wendy's 'Winnipeg Winter - The Kelly Building' and on the right her 'Gates Puzzle'.

Links at Victoria College of Art

In the 2nd room is the Links body of work.
We gave each other 3 words: a colour, a technique, an inspiration and we produced small works interpreting those words.

Green, setacolor, garden and Purple, pipe cleaner, perplexed.

Green, setacolor, garden and Orange, southern, sunfire and Red, paper, transition.

ReBecca surprised us all by producing sculptural forms, dolls, each one representing a member of the group.

Badlands & Rainforest

As you walk into the first room, on the left is Donna's 'Fallen Leaves' and Ingrid's 'Forest Vessel'

Here is Ingrid talking about her work while leading a tour of about 40 people around the exhibition.

Next, along the wall (a covered blackboard) is Donna's 'Arbutus' and my 'Fossil Bed'.

Back to the Rainforest with my 'Regression' and Donna's 'Yellow Cedar' and 'Sitka Spruce'.

First Exhibition Space

This is the view on the right as one enters the 1st of 3 exhibition spaces.
'Reading The Past II' - mine
'Hoodoos' - Ingrid Lincoln
'A Hole of My Own' - Vickie Newington
'A Walk in the Park' - Leann Clifford

'Fallen Leaves' - Donna
'Sucession' - mine

'Sleeping Giants' - mine
'Outwash' - mine

This is a poor image and you can't see the works but it gives you an idea of how we worked with the space to find the best place for each work.
The 2 square works are Donna's and the round one is Miriam Birkenthal's.
This collection of 3 illustrates the wide range of materials and techniques Articulation members use to express their ideas and to tell their stories.