Sunday, October 25, 2015

Sketches from Costa Rica

The jungle from the river, we kayaked to (mostly Steve's paddling)

The view from the verandah of the beach at dusk.

Some postcards for the grandkids.

 

These guys joined us at our beach BBQ, and were been our 'guards' until we left!

 

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Sugar and spice... At the ABC Exhibit at the Braithwaite gallery at SUU

'SUGAR AND SPICE'
In response to and sits on 'CAKE STAND & LID' made by Michelle Larsen Bonner
Mixed media Art book, Papier mâché Cake stand & Lid
12x12.5x12.5" 2010-11
Will be on display as part of the exhibit
ABC: Assemblage, Book Art and Collage
Curated by Jonathan Talbot, Sue Cotter and Deborah Snider.
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery
351 W University BLVD, Cedar City, UT 84720
September 10th through November 7th 2015.
Cake Stand with Lid, closed
Sugar and Spice Art Book closed on Cake Stand.
When closed the 'SUGAR AND SPICE' Book Art appears to be a thick slice of cake.
Materials in the book used include paper, wood,and found objects.
Materials used in the stand is papier-mâché made with recycled dressmaking pattern tissue.
Sugar and Spice Art Book open and expanded to 18 'portions', on the open Cake Stand, with lid off.
Sugar and Spice Art Book open, on open Cake Stand with a few card inserts.
Within each cake portion is a removable two-sided card collage, embellished with memories of being a British female growing up in the '60's and '70's in South London, England and depicting some of the influential women and female related experiences through out my life.
Card colłage details front and back.
I am hoping you may be able to attend the Preview Reception on September 9th, 5-8 pm.
Here are the details of, the special openings and associated lectures and workshops at SUU:


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Communication Unplugged.

Opening this week at the Canyon Community Center, Springdale:

I entered my reconfigured art piece,
'COMMUNICATION UNPLUGGED'
Mixed media, comprising, used envelopes, cotton thread and wax. 25x9x30"
In 2007 I sent a request for friends and family send me envelopes through the mail, they too could invite their friends, eventually accumulating enough envelopes I put them together as a 'quilt' that ended up as an installation called 'BED POST'. That piece was displayed during the Open Studios of 2008, and the work has sat in a box since then. Michelle Larsen Bonner reminded me of it and that maybe I could do something with it for this community show. Several weeks later I finished it August 31st.
It is a large envelope, to all Humankind, with a letter expressing a quote from John Ralston Saul, a Canadian writer and current President for The Pen International,
" Any means of communication that can be unplugged cannot be independent ".

 

If you go I hope you enjoy the show.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Last couple of days.... Finishes Sunday!

GAIA'S ROBE is up for display until August 9th. This may be her last public showing as she is very delicate.

Also on show are some other books, mixed media art and Jewellery by Michelle Larsen Bonner, Kris Eberhard and myself. It's a nice show if you are in the area please visit!

 

Sun Rays #1

We had our old (as in, how long we have known them for! Not, of course, their age!) and very good friends, Ali Hampshire and Ric Faulkner stay last week, and I commandeered them along with Steve, and Mary Jane and Bill Weyher help build the next 'animal shade' - SUN RAY #1- for the Weyher's pasture in Springdale, along with the larger immobile shelter - CLOUD COVER - built earlier this year. Here are some photos of the building and the final piece (above). More will follow soon!
The model....
Piecing together the fence posts
The spacing...
Ric with the saw-saw(?)...
On its way too the field...

 

 

Thanks for reading this blog and will see you soon!

 

 

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

New group show in Zion National Park

GAIA'S ROBE is up for display until August 9th. This may be her last public showing as she is very delicate.

Also on show are some other books, mixed media art and Jewellery by Michelle Larsen Bonner, Kris Eberhard and myself. It's a nice show if you are in the area please visit!

 

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Cloud Cover: the official cutting!

After Earth Day celebrations in Springdale I had a small gathering to cut the ribbon on CLOUD COVER, the sculpture that is in MaryJane and Bill Weyher's front pasture. Part Art - Part shade cover (see previous post).

Thank you MaryJane and Bill for allowing me to have this much fun, and to Brin & Ella Wrankle for the photgraphy! And I appreciate all who attended, and sorry to anyone I missed, it was a small impromptu affair!