lots of fuzzy photos from Toronto

Sadly, I have lost my small camera and so had to use my iPod when I was in Toronto last week. These are not great photos but hopefully they give you a sense of the wonderful things I saw.

just a building that caught my eye

lots of lovely letterpress at Graven Feather

Pam checking out the amazing graphite work of Jane Buyers at the Paul Petro Gallery. 

snowy yard at Citizenry café. we sat inside and had coffee

Group art show at Graven Feather featuring mono prints by Sarah Cordeaux, sculpture by Zoe Downie- Ross and paintings by Laura Phan. The show is up until April 5th, so still some time to see it. Here is the link for Graven Feather's website for more information and better photos.

Congratulations Sarah! and Kazoo!

It has been an exciting final few months of University for my former experiential learning student Sarah Cordeaux.  A few weeks ago at the Fine Arts Network award ceremony, Sarah received three awards for her print works! She is such a hard worker and I am so happy for all the good things that have been happening for her. Her large scale monotypes blew me away! So wonderful, so asked her for a pose next to this amazing piece. She was a bit shy and excited about the upcoming award ceremony but I am glad I got a couple of snaps.

Here are a few places you can see her work, at a show of specialized students work at the Boarding House Gallery on Dublin Street until April 27th. On April 5th is the closing party (6 - 8pm) of a show that opened on the 1st at Zavitz gallery, University of Guelph and on April 6th (11am- 3pm) she will have some work at Kazoo print, Mitchell Hall 99 Woolwich Street (in St. George's Church). Kazoo Print Expo looks like a great collection of talented people and I am excited to see all the work there. You should look at their link above to see who all will be showing work. This poster is by Gregory Pepper.

Kazoo Print Expo is a part of Kazoo! Fest who have a history of hosting lots of great music
in downtown Guelph. You might want to catch some of that too. The poster below is by Gillian Wilson, she will be at Kazoo Print.  Here are the details for Kazoo fest!

Busy Studio

Once in awhile my studio is a busy place with people working on various print projects.  This is a nice change from the usual quiet of just myself and my music, pacing around trying to make decisions and create something I am happy with.  On this particular day, a week or two ago, Jane Lind came up to work on a few of her chine colle monotypes.  Pearl VanGeest came in to finish up her handtinted lithographs with chine colle for the exhibition Papier12 (through KWT Gallery) and Sarah Cordeaux was helping me with a large work on her last day as assistant for her Experiential Learning course.

Jane and Sarah working

one of Jane's completed prints

another of Jane's lovely works

Pearl signing her finished works

i do not have the titles to everyone's work. just love how they all turned out

work in progress

 Experiential Learning student Sarah Cordeaux helping out with some monotyping in the studio this week. (Whoa, my studio looks messy from this angle.  I need all of these things.  The next photo is a better angle for my studio right now.)

Congratulations Sarah for getting one of the Printmaking awards in this year's juried art show. Also, so happy that she was accepted into the specialized program that she really wanted for next year!  I could not manage to copy an image of her work to post here, but you can see some of Sarah's wonderful work on her website.

 

 

 

 

So excited about all the lovely things I want to build from these prints. (Hopefully some will be finished in time for my group show in June-July at Renann Isaacs).