Updates from life in the Art and Jewellery Studios.
Arts for Social & Environmental Justice Symposium Visual Arts Presenter, Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, ON. It was pretty neat to have my pieces melting throughout the Symposium! I placed them around the spaces where the symposium was held, and allowed them to melt, as they do naturally. With this work, I always respond to…
Thank You Ontario Arts Council! I am very thankful to have received a Mid-Career Project Grant, from the Ontario Arts Council. Early in 2020, I started working with Queenie, a ceramic artist at ClayArt Studios, to learn and create very thin ‘card-like’ porcelain pieces. I will produce many of these individual pieces, which will then…
I learned how to screen print. To make adult colouring pages, and greeting cards. My intricate drawings seemed to be very well suited to the adult colouring craze. This was a fun project, and it was great to learn screen printing. … I have to say that my favourite part was the screens themselves.
Missing you. Every day, in every way.
Commission Studies Here, I’m working out some ideas for a large-scale commission. White, Gold, Silver, and Blue ink on paper.
Collaboration/Trade On June 14 2014, we installed this diptych in the space of my friend and jeweller: Zsolt Szekely. It’s looking good, and I couldn’t be happier that this work is a part of his personal and creative space! In exchange, he made me this beautiful spinning ring. Rose, white and yellow gold with orange…
Wax Carving Following are some examples of carvings that I have done for other businesses, always interesting to work in collaboration with other artisans.
Musical Collaboration Through the month of November, there will be a series of performances of “Found Objects” by the composer James M. David (based in Fort Collins, CO). I was honoured to be asked to animate the four short pieces that make up this composition using my own work. I took this opportunity to create…
Scrumptious Oil Paint Several years ago I played with this concept of oil paint becoming sculpture, and having some fun with it’s beautiful frosting-like consistency. I’m currently revisiting these, considering them in a more formal, sculptural context.
Beautiful Studio I am very thankful to have had this beautiful space, in Toronto’s little Portugal, to spend my time in. Working, and playing, and picking grapes for 8 years! It’s been a productive time, exploring existing ideas and discovering new ones.