Lynn Chidwick's stained glass

 Lynn Chidwick is a stained glass artist in the Trafalgar Building, who makes some beautiful work.  Years ago I fixed up an old brass chandelier by spray painting it white then went to Lynn to help me figure out what to do to it to give it a little something extra.  Lynn attached a ring to the top so that she could solder on some glass pieces, leaf shapes and dots.  She then made lots of individual pieces that could be hung onto the arms of the chandelier and moved around as you felt like it. 

When we moved a few years ago, my mother gave us a house warming gift of a work by Lynn that fits perfectly in our foyer window. When the sun shines through that window, there are little rainbows cast all over the front hall and we just love it.  Recently we have been trying to open a few areas where there is not much light and decided to cut some of the top panels out of a panel door to be replaced with stained glass designed by Lynn to compliment the work in the window.  Can't wait to get to get that project started.

101 Prints at Malaspina in Vancouver!

My etching, 'the tired conversation' will be at Malaspina's 101 Prints fundraising event in October.  Last year, this work won third prize at Open Studio's National Printmaking Awards. A very exciting evening and I think that Malaspina's 101 Prints will be an wonderful event with the opportunity to take home one lovely print from a fantastic collection of print works. If you click on the link below you can preview some of the artwork that will be available at the event.
the details:
Tickets are now on sale for our fantastic fundraising event which will be held at the Roundhouse on Friday October 28th, 2011. Like most non-profit organizations, we have had to tighten our belts, reduce staffing and put on hold some of our best programs such as the Print Research Residency and CHOP, our acclaimed journal.

This event really is the best value in town - it is a gift exchange where attendees like yourselves are donating to Malaspina Printmakers Educational Society and likewise the artists have donated their work. Where else can you go for a social evening out for two and come home with an original piece of artwork for only $300!

To see the details and a preview of the work please take a look at the website:
http://www.malaspinaprintmakers.com/101-prints
Tickets are available through Malaspina Printmakers at 604-688-1724 or at 1555 Duranleau Street on Granville Island.

Malaspina Printmakers

www.malaspinaprintmakers.com

malaspinagallery@telus.net

Graven Feather opening

On our Saturday visit to Toronto, one of our most important things to do was to drop in to the soft opening of Graven Feather at 906 Queen St. West.  There we celebrated the opening of a new studio, workshop and showing space of three very talented young women;  Erin Candela
Pam Lobb and Jessica Bartram.  It was delightful! A brand new clean space all set up and ready to go. Lots of wonderful artwork,a large group of fans, cupcakes, champagne and lovely accordion music  playing in the background.  We were later shown around the beautiful garden and were quite smitten with the whole place. I think that they will be most happy here in their new studios and can't wait to visit again to see what they have been up to. 

My son wanted to take the photos and so I am not sure of who did what.  I do have links for each of the artists and you can look up their work if you are curious.  I do know the top photo

is Pam Lobb and I can't wait to tell her that Graven Feather was Odin's favourite thing that we did on Saturday! 

Libby Hague at the AGO Young Gallery

an installation by Libby Hague
Sympathetic Connections
in the Young Gallery of the AGO,
317 Dundas St. Toronto, Ontario
Saturday June 11, 2 - 5 and running until September 11th.
curated by Michelle Jacques
FREE ADMISSION
 
list of components:
28 wide soft trees
2 bags  paper cloud-chains
2 boxes multicolored streamers
2 bags assembled paper components
1 bag flowers
1 bag very misc. items
1 pkg. clouds
1 nuclear power plant
about a dozen reinforced trees
2 large packages thin birch trees
hangers
clothespins
tools
paste


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The Art Gallery of Ontario is pleased to announce that the Toronto Now series continues with an exhibition by local artist Libby Hague.

For her Toronto Now exhibition, Libby Hague will animate the Young Gallery by connecting paper and print elements across the architecture of the space. Representational and abstract forms will be combined in a three-dimensional narrative that describes the natural world and our often troubled relationship to it. While the natural forms of Hague’s woodblock prints and paper sculptures appear outwardly light-hearted, closer observation reveals a nuclear power plant – with all its impending allusions – looming on the landscape’s horizon.

Inspired by anime, comic books and science fiction, Hague’s playful, yet often foreboding narratives give physical form to imaginative worlds. Her sculptural manipulation of print creates environments for investigation that hover between dystopia and utopia – spaces that present both inevitable disaster and possible solution.

Daytripping

No news for awhile around here until last weekend when we had a whole pile of things to do in the big city and I made sure to take a couple of photographs... not enough though.

We had to take the crazy car to transport some larger artworks.  It is not going to take big trips for too much longer, poor thing.