November 2013

Autumn Goings On

We had an incredible Fall with stunning colours and blue sky most of the time. That is the best recipe for inspiration and productivity in the studio for me!

Here are some of my new paintings.

Fall Delight 

 Acrylic on canvas

48x57

Above the Clouds

Acrylic on canvas

30x40

Fall Landscape

acrylic on canvas

12x12

Three ways to look at one painting!

When I start a painting I have a rough idea about the colours and the mood I want to give. Then I go with my instinct and feeling of the moment. It is like my painting is asking me for certain things to happen. I veil, add and change until I feel it makes sense to me. Sometimes I turn the painting and continue until I feel I cannot add anything to it.

So lets have a bit of fun with this painting!

Here is the same painting that I think looks quite different as you turn it.

Play the game and think what you see in each of the three versions.

Take some time to think about it.

Below I will tell you what I see.

Three Ways

Acrylic on canvas 

30x30

What did you see?

Here is what I see.

On top I see an abstract painting with shapes and fall colours

In the middle is a face with eyes, nose and ears

The bottom painting has a landscape feel to it

Berlin, Germany

Also the Berlin Art Market started on October 25th  

Here are two of the 48 painting I have in the show

8x8

24x24

Here is the link to learn more about the Berlin Art Market:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Z9IASQBSo

It is going to be on for three months until the end of January 2014

 Art Super Market of Soleure Switzerland

Opening night on November 8th, continues until January 5th

Here are two of the 52 paintings that I will have in this show

16x16

24x24

Here is the link to the Soleure Art Market

http://www.solothurn-city.ch/en/events/main-events/14th-swiss-art-supermarket-in-solothurn.5567.html

Thanks for reading my blog,

Catherine

Kunstsupermarkt in Berlin, Germany

Hello everyone,

While I was in Switzerland this Summer I was invited to participate in the Kunstsupermarkt in Berlin, Germany. They have art markets  in Berlin and Frankfurt in the same format as the one I have participated in Soleure, Switzerland. I was selected for the Berlin art sale.  This is going to be the 13th Art Supermarkt. The address for those who might be there is: Friedrichstrasse, 67-70, at The Q downstairs. 


Here are some photos of paintings I will have there.

This Art Supermarkt will last three months. The opening will be on October 25, Friday at 1PM and the art sale will last until the end of January 2014.

All the best and thanks for reading my blog!

Falls exhibits

Hi everyone,

Falls is definitely back around here and so is the Exhibit Season.

I am showing with the 5enses at Delany's in Dundarave Village in West Vancouver for the months of September and October 

Delany's in Dundarave Village

on Marine Drive in West Vancouver

Bird on a Wire

2535 Main Street in Vancouver

With the 5enses again, we had our private viewing at Bird on a Wire October 3rd.  It was a beautiful night and Karen, with her team, did a great job showcasing our paintings in her store. 

Thank you to them!

Our paintings are going to be there for the month of October and November.

Hope you have time to go, there are a lot of nice things in that store!

You are invited to our Private View with Raven's Rest Studio and 5enses hosted by Bird on a Wire Creations!  View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward to Friend +1 Share Please join us for an evening of Art! Hosted by Bird on a Wire Creations When:  October 3rd, 7-9:30 pm Where:  2535 Main Street, Vancouver Who:  The Bird on a Wire community, you and your guests! What:  Private View is a series of events scheduled to run on the first Thursday of every second month. These informal evenings feature works by select visual artists. You're welcome to drop by, or stay for the whole evening. Wine and snacks will be served. Why: View affordable art, and meet local artists! Meet this month's featured artists: Please join us as we feature Raven's Rest Studio, and the art collective, 5enses this Private View! With a focus on upcycling, Raven's Rest creates quirky yet delicate gifts for those you love, while the five women painters of 5enses have such a special synergy, we felt the need to highlight them as a group. We look forward to seeing you! RAVEN'S REST STUDIO has a way of taking forgotten items and making them absolutely unforgettable. Jennifer Conway, owner and designer of Raven's Rest, works out of her home studio where she repurposes recycled items and creates the most beautiful keychains, necklaces, and even cuff links! Her objects are delicate, yet bold taking inspiration from her surroundings, while also embracing the quirky.   CATHERINE FIELDS  -  A background of creative expression in art teaching, writing children’s books, doing pottery, quilting, and numerous other artistic endeavours was not enough for Catherine. With her energy, emotion, and life experience set to burst, she was compelled to start painting. With no time for traditional approaches to art, she had to paint as free, wild, and abstract as the storm of energy inside her. Using brush loads of colour that sweep from one end of the canvas to the other, she creates the painting that is full of her happiness, joy, and good feelings about life. Intuition, acrylic on canvas, 24"x24" THERESE LYDIA JOSEPH  - Every day she stumbles upon the hidden beauty of ordinary, often unnoticed, and disregarded subjects. Her aim is to grab hold of the intense feeling these experiences provoke in her, and capture it on canvas. When she feels the same awareness of wonder stirring, as when she first came upon the hidden beauty, she knows the painting is done and art is created. Her new abstract series Dare to Dream echoes possibilities of a strong pursuit. Her figurative/abstract and textured series Dare to Live portrays critical and tender moments of life in general. A Third Time Around, acrylic collage, 16"x16" MENA MARTINI - "Art is a flickering moment of beauty, a grasping silence." Born in Italy, Mena Martini has lived in France, Mexico, and Canada. Today she works in Vancouver as an artist and a writer. She has exhibited in Canada and in Europe where she was part of the Italy in the World multimedia installation at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Mena's compositions are mostly abstract; her spontaneous brushstrokes and vivid colours convey a personal vision of nature as a reflection of the soul. Exuberance, acrylic, 36"x36" SARA MORISON -  For Sara, painting is a visual conversation -- a sensational dance, a moment, a feeling, an experience. She loves the process of creating, of delving into the unknown, of being in the moment, intuitively letting go to create balance. To risk, to veil, to try again. She enjoys playfully contrasting opacity with transparency, dark with light, and an emphasis on colour, line, and gesture. Take Me to the Moon, cold wax & oil on panel, 16"x20" Winter's Rust, diptych 12"x32", mixed media on cradle panel, 2013 LORI BAGNERES -  She is a contemporary visual artist living and working on the North Shore. Through mixed media techniques and the consistent employment of archetypal shapes such as circles, ovals, and spirals, her compositions draw the viewer into a natural continuum, suggesting our commonality with diverse forms on earth and in the cosmos. Her latest series combines her textured painted cradle panels, photos of crows migrating to and from urban and rural parts of the lower Mainland with images of grungy worn walls accumulated throughout her travels - a unique genre of abstract landscape.