The road
is sometimes
smooth
textured
wet
slippery
tears of
joy
desperation
inspiration
at a crossroads
following one way
an option
a journey
18" x 48" Terra, textiles, aluminum leaf, antique lace, acrylic on wooden panel
30" x 60" Dreamscape, textiles, aluminum leaf, antique lace, acrylic on wooden panel
There are now only a few spots open for the wet-felting workshop that I will be teaching at Loyalist College In Belleville, Ontario from July 12 - 15.
Here are the details:
(Click on Image to see it larger)
To register, please sign up here
There is also a description in the Loyalist Summer Program on page 18
The cost of the workshop is only $289 (plus the material cost for all the yummy wool $75). If you need to a place to stay in Belleville, the school offers their residency for a very minimal fee of $40 (plus tax) per night. There are also many lovely B&B's in and around Belleville.
I would love to see you at the workshop, I have 4 huge boxes of the most amazing wool coming from Europe. Some of those qualities are not otherwise available in Canada.
Message me if you have any questions about the workshop, and you may contact Heather at Loyalist College for registration information
Heather Cockerline (613) 969-1913 ext. 2467 or Email: hcockerline@loyalistc.on.ca
Exciting
the possibilities
with a piece
of art in
the form of
a triptych
Another cycle is
finished
the pieces
delivered to
my agent
to be sent to galleries
who will meet
the people
that will take them
home
to complete
their cycle of
finding
8x8" Growing
8 x 8" Simple Pleasures
8 x 8" Sepia Moment #6
30 x 40" Prevail
images made
taken
the past
nineteenhundrednientyfour
the present
twothousandandtwelve
becoming
my art
questionmark
connecting
linking
finding
a belonging
of my
creation
my self
Nope, I did not stop making art
just a break to
flow with the world
to create with fabric
thread
with my hands
always my hands
a break, a breath
the studio is set up differently
with a separate room
built new
clean, white
for resin coating
flowing paint
fun
joy
enjoyment
very big
and really tiny
Canvas Gallery, my longest standing gallery has just received 4 new pieces from me. They wrote a lovely post on their blog about it. Here are the images a bit larger:
Aspire: 11" x 48"
"Ethereal Spheres" size: 26" x 72"
"Source 1" 30" x 30"
"Source 2" 30" x30"
Source 1 & 2 can be combined into a diptych that can be displayed in different ways. I regard the viewer as the final component in the creation of my work, and I have been striving to create work that allows the viewer to partake in this process through a choice in displaying the work. My abstracts provide very different emotional responses depending on the direction that they are hung. They can also be changed around and provide an interactive play between the viewer and the piece.
Enjoy!
On July 16 and 17 I will be teaching a workshop at Meta4 Gallery in Port Perry. It would be lovely to have you in my class.
http://www.meta4gallery.ca/courseCalendar/Programs.pdf
To register, please contact the gallery directly, for questions, please contact me directly.
Completion
most of the works
gone
left
out in the world
travelers, seekers
finders of their permanent
home.
The viewer, the purchaser
the final piece
of completion in the
process
of creating
Their thoughts
added
to my feelings
mixed
changing my intent
enhancing it
distorting it
understanding?
Their thoughts
are what matters
more?
Their thoughts
their reaction
will make my seekers
be loved, accepted, wanted, acquired
To enable me to keep
my living
my creating
in the flow.
When the end is here
for me
some day
guaranteed
my pieces will continue
to be
alive. here. bringing joy. existing. loved.
24" x 24" Textures of our Memories
30" x 30" Cultivated Strenght
8" x 8" Thursday is Washday
On my iPod:
Fall of Giants (I did not like this the way I liked Pillars of the Earth),
The Dark River
The Golden City
if you would
today, tonight, tomorrow
sneak into
the space of my
creations...
you would see
a series of work
in progress
waiting... for
details
finishing
being readied to enter
into the world.
Diptych - 30"x30"
Blue Diptych 2 x 24" x24"
Red Triptych 3 x 24" x 24"
Red Triptych 3 x 26" x 26"
Red Triptych 30" x 30"
Series of little abstracts each 8" x 8"
Series of Figurative 8" x 8" pieces.
There is more, to be shown in the days ahead.
I-pod - my old one died, after 6 years and a few repairs. Now I have a new I pod Nano. Metallic pink - for the girly-girl in me that is always hidden. Listening to: Susan Howatch - Absolute Truths. On Tape: Music from 1985 - more youth.
life is
details
the paint bottles got opened today
a way was found
for protecting
the cast on the
fractured finger
new details, a new way of using
something new
never bevor was it used
but there is potential
details of another sort
comfortable
right
fitting
yet always, first there is hesitation
then knowing, trusting, doing
another way
to show detail
by showing
a detail of life
a moment
of my life
and
so many others
neve really
alone
8"x8" in total size with all the other parts of the piece.
and another design
to make myself
feel better!
Listening to: Sins of our Fathers.
Here we are
not quite whole
but healing
finding deeper inspiration
and sillyness
always
never stop
sillyness
Can't get the cast wet, can't wear gloves to not make it sweat, need to keep it on for at least another 2 weeks.
It happened when I was spring cleaning the studio. A heavy table top, too heavy for me to lift, fell onto the finger. I heard the most awful sound of the bone being fractured.
Finding some other ways to be creative. Yesterday:
Today: going to the ROM. Sketching. Wandering on my schedule, not Huxley's.
Tomorrow: Back to the studio, working on details:
Listening to: Sins of our Fathers, Stones into Schools, Angels and Demons (2nd Time around and still fun), Swiss-German-Austrian-drinking songs... (but no Bier to go with it).
Inspiration
away from the walls
of my secure cave of the
studio
cold, ice, colour
elusive
yet vast, deep
textures
feeling it.
It might lead
to newness
embraced in my heart
captured in paint
one day?
soon.....
On they i-pod: Eat, Pray, Love; Under the Dome; The Book of Night Women
