Installation des peintures à Soleure en Suisse juillet 2011

Here I am, back to Vancouver, after a wonderful trip to Switzerland and Soleure in particular.

I went to Soleure to package my 61 paintings in plastic cover, label them and most of all meet Mr Peter Lukas, the organisator of the event. He was very kind and very organized, as good swiss german people are, with all the material ready and a large table to work on. Nicole a friend, Tamara my dautgther and Mark my husband, were there to assist me. It was very nice and enjoyable to work with them. It was quiet a assembly line, but in about 2 hours we were done. Mr Peter Lukas invited me to bring a larger painting as well which was a bonus for me and I appreciate very much the opportunity.

After that, we went for a ``business lunch`` in the old town of Soleure. Beautiful lunch along the Aar river, the food was also artisticly presented, the whole experience was enjoyable. Soleure is apparently, the nicest baroque town in Switzerland, located on the Aar river and among lots of historical buildings has a Cathedrale dated of 1773.

All in all, I am very happy I went to Soleure. Of course I am also looking forward to the Opening on the 10th of November when I will be back to gread my family and friends.

Here are some of the paintings that you will be able to see there and if you would like to see more please go on my website to see all them. nsartists.ca/catherinefields

Hello everyone,

I wanted to keep you informed on my progress for my show this fall in Soleure CH. I guess now you must know what CH stands for??? Switzerland of course (and it’s a Trivial Pursuit question too...)

I finished my 60 paintings and ordered the wrapping and stickers that I will need to wrap them with when I get to Soleure in July, where the show will take place in November, starting on November 11th and last until January 6th 2012.

It's been a very enriching and learning experience to work towards a specific goal and to paint so many paintings with the same technique. I had a special mandate with four different categories of prices and therefore four different sizes. I also had to do 40 paintings minimum, 10 of each category and all quite small, which is for me a bit of a challenge, since I rather paint big. The sizes vary from 8x8 inches for the smallest to 24x24 inches for the largest. I had to find a way to achieve that and I was in a mood to paint large at the time rather than small. So, I decided to paint on large pieces of velum paper, that I bring from the State. I cut them in small parts and glue them on the canvases. By doing that I also had the feeling of loose and free movement even though I had small canvases at the end.

That's how my title for the series was found - `Liberté` or `Freedom` in English. I gave them that title because I was free to do what I wanted, staying with the same technique, and also because I wanted to give the feeling of freedom in having spontaneous and free stokes.

Since I have so many paintings I thought that the best way for you to see my work is to go on my website and click on the Kunst Supermarkt Series and have a look.

I hope that you will enjoy seeing it. If you have any comments or questions please do so or ask me, I will try my best to answer them.

Here is a few samples of the paintings the rest will be on my website:http://nsartists.ca/catherinefields


Catherine

Update on the Brush Stroke show in Montreal

I was very lucky to have Elyse's sister, Danielle working close by. She went for the Opening on Thursday evening and reported me a few things about the Gallery. I was told a lot of people came to the Opening and the gallery was nice and big and the show was wonderful with different artists and styles.
It is too bad I couldn't be there but nice that I could exhibit in Montreal.

Group Show at Avenue Art Gallery in Montreal

Here is the news for today in my art life!

I just got accepted to the Second Brush Off Competition at the Avenue Art Gallery (http://www.avenueart.ca/)in Montreal. This is a nice contemporary gallery in the old part of Montreal. They took the three paintings that I submitted from the Nautical Series. I am very happy to be able to show some of my artwork there for the month of June. The Opening is going to be the 16th of June but with my busy life here I won't be able to attend the Opening, hard to do it all! The Gallery is situated at 10 rue King St in Old Montreal.

Life as an artist is not only about painting, it is also about administration work as well as applying for shows and galleries! Still,I am painting for my show in Switzerland,over 50 paintings are done so far. I need a minimum of 40, so I am doing fine and basically OK and on schedule. Soon I will show you some of my paintings for that. As you can see it`s a very exciting time for me this Spring - much better than the weather around here in Vancouver!!!

Kunst ArtSuperMarkt 2011-Contemporary Art show in Switzerland

This is great news! I have been accepted in an Art Show happening next November to January in Soleure in Switzerland. This is a contemporary Art Supermarket Show around 70 artists are going to exhibit. In the result of that, we are planning to go to CH this Summer, meet Peter-Lucas, the organizator, and bring my paintings. Each artist has to show 40 paintings, all fairly small, 24x24 inches being the biggest. The only requierment for that show was to present 4 different sizes one for aech price category. This is going to be a great opportunaty to meet new artists. Also I will have the chance to invite my Swiss connections, family and friends and show them what I do. I am very excited!
I decided to paint big, on paper, cut part of the paintings and glue the paper on canvas. I love the process this is great for composition and the result looks surprising. I will show you some of the paintings I finished already. i hope you enjoy it! Please feel free to make comments.
I will show more paintings later as I progress....

The first Art Crawl on the North Shore

It was a great success!

The weather cooperate, lots of people came enjoyed talking to us and see what we are doing. It was busy and a lot of fun explaining all the process of our endeavour and we got the people exhiting and even and had a few sales as a bonus. We met galery owners interior designers and most of all art lovers. For the first Art Crawl we could'nt ask for more.

Catherine Fields: Sopa Gallery in Kelowna on the weekend...

Catherine Fields: Sopa Gallery in Kelowna on the weekend...: "Sara and I just came back from the Okonagan. I had a great weekend and Opening at the Sopa Gallery on Thursday night. Lots of people were there, 120 artists exhibited 371 paintings...I sold one painting so far....