Art Crawl on Granville street.....

Next Saturday June 23rd there will be a art crawl in lots of  galleries on Granville street will be open from 5th to 15th .

Urbanity a nice scandinavian cloth store is going to show my paintings at the same time. I will be there from 1pm to 4pm yoto talk to you and share a glass of wine while you stroll through the store enjoying both nice cloth and some art.

See the address below:

U R B A N I T Y

urbanity.ca/

U R B A N I T Y 2412 Granville Street Vancouver BC, V6H 3G6 CANADA (map) Free parking - Stall 7. Opening hours: Tues - Sat 11 - 18. Sunday Noon - 17 604 801-6262

Here are some of the paintings that you will see there.

18x36 Acrylic on canvas

$650

12x36 Acrylic on canvas

$450

44x45 Acrylic on canvas

$2000

36x18 Acrylic on canvas

$650

18x24Acrylic on canvas

$450

18x24 Acrylic on canvas

$450

24x30 Acrylic on canvas

$720

16x20 Acrylic on canvas

$320

Have a great weekend!

``Demo`` at CityScape

Well, I can say that the demo was a huge success! 48 persons came to see our demo and explanation of the process of painting abstract in using your right brain. We couldn't have asked for more than that, the audience was interested, asked question, watched attentively and stayed until the end, which lasted two hours. An amazing experience for all of us.

Three artists came from Vancouver Island, Jill Ehlert, Diane McCarten and Eve Llyndorah. They did the demo while Sara Morison and I talked about the process and lead them to their mission. First we did the square,circle and triangle exercise slow and fast, observed the differences between the two and asked the audience their feedback.
Then I asked the artists to do the repetitive motif exercise and asked the audience to choose a number. Number was 4 was chosen and the artists drew on 36x48 velum paper as many times as they felt like and continued the painting with the colours of their choice to create their paintings.

Eve Llyndorah

Jill Ehlert

Diane McCarten 

During that time Sara and I talked about the course with Steven Aimone, Aimone Services that Mary Stewart organizes on the Island Vancouver Island Art Workshops . The paper we use was of a big interest (Velum 90lb) 48inches wide.

We also talked about the book Painters Eleven  that I recently finish reading and truly enjoyed, for different reasons, one being the similarity in process between their work and my work, the fact that they had to open doors to a new style of painting at the time in Canada and being accepted as abstract artists and open new vision of the art at the same time to the public.

I would like to say thank you to Linda Feil and Jo Dunlop for accepting us into the gallery of CityScape and for all of us to show our work together as an abstract group. The cherry on the cake was the demo last Saturday. Just a fantastic experience for all of us!

Enjoy the three pieces of art created (on 90lb velum paper) during the demo!

Diane McCarten

Eve Llindorah

Jill Ehlert

Hope you enjoyed it and that you feel like trying to do it yourself!

Studio Experience!

This was an amazing evening after a year and half past after our course with Steven Aimone.


               Here are some impatient women looking at the window before the show!

Jill Ehlert one of the 14 women in the show did an amazing slide show of the Opening Studio Experience! please click on it and see the show!

            Catherine,Therese and Sara 3 members of the 5enses participating in the Studio show


Sara and Bonnie both sold a painting, this is very good and encouraging since our work was made on paper and not even mounted yet!

    This is my piece made for the exercise`` repetitive motif ``one of the exercise made                        during our Steven Aimone workshop in November 2010.

Latest News!

I have been accepted again at the Kunstsupermarkt Soleure Switzerland for the next 2012 show.

Here are some of my paintings and also you can go on my website and see the rest of my work....

in the smallest category 10x12

in the next category 12x12

in the third category 18x24

and the largest category 24x24

I am also going to have two large paintings 

Passion Series 6

110x80cm

and finally Passion Series 7

110x110cm

I will bring all these paintings in July when we go to Switzerland for our holidays. This is pretty exciting for me and nice to work with this very well organized group, Peter Lukas being the main organizer.

May post

Since the workshop on the Island I have been to Victoria to visit for the first time The Red Gallery in Victoria where they show my work. Marion and Bobb a very nice couple, they started the gallery a bit over a year ago and have been quiet successful selling painting and representing a nice group of Artist. I am one of the lucky one exhibiting there.

Here is some of my work showing there.

Okanagan Series 24x24

Flowers Series 20x20

Song of Shapes 22x28

I went to Victoria with my friend Elyse and stayed with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law in a hobby sheep farm that was alot of fun!

I even bought wool from the hobby farm and from those sheep, beautiful wool natural dye. My intention is to knit a sweater for Mark!!! Oups! Unfortunately, I knitted and painted too much lately and I am NOT allowed to paint or knit for three weeks....so here I am blogging instead!

I will be more active with my blog since I am taking a course to improve my blogging!

So that's it for now and see you soon!

Back from of an amazing workshop in Nanaimo!

This last week was challenging, stimulating, encouraging and pushing the limits of our artistic journey. All of that with a dedicated group of 12 artists.Steven Aimone, our facilitator was challenging us through talks and guidance, moving around what we called our individual studio spaces, leading us through our creativity. This workshop was organized by Mary Stewart  a talented artist from Nanaimo. She organizes many different workshops during the year, all very successful.

Sara Morison, good friend and artist from our 5enses group, in  her studio space 

and Steven Aimone with Eve Llyndorah and Helen Webster (above)

One of my large paintings on unstretched canvas

I mainly painted large but challenged myself with some small ones as well. 

Small painting, 10x10 on acrylic canvas 

The last day each artist did a presentation to the group of their progress through the week. It was emotional and revealing and we connected with each artist and their artistic evolution.

Lisa Danesin experimenting lines and movement

Leslie Miller 

Eve Llyndorah spontaneous and layer of paint  applied with spatula 

                                   Barbra Scott  a very hard worker and dedicated artist!

Thanks to Steven and Mary for a wonderful experience!

Spring News!

The month of March has been a busy time organizing different shows for the months to come.

36x48 mixed media on canvas showing at Delany's coffee shop in Dundarave West Vancouver.

On Sunday I am going to attend a workshop on Vancouver Island run by Steven Aimone. This is the second one that I will take with my friend and artist Sara Morison.

Then with the group of 5enses  we will be exhibiting at Sopa Gallery in Kelowna. The show is called U8. More than 400 paintings will be for sale and every painting will sell for $800 or less. This is a contemporary show with artists from everywhere in Canada and the States. The opening date is April 5th at Sopa Fine Art Gallery and will last two weeks.

Here are some of my works there.

18x36 acrylic on canvas, Sopa Gallery

from the 5th to the19th of April

30x30 acrylic on canvas, Sopa Gallery Kelowna

18x36 acrylic on canvas, Sopa Gallery Kelowna

16x16 acrylic on canvas, Sopa Gallery Kelowna

Now the next show for me is going to be at Bistro Louis Gervais down by the Auto Mall in North Vancouver. 

I will be exhibiting by myself for two months from April 1st to June 2nd. The paintings they chose are from my series Movement and Balance. See below for some examples of this series.

30x30 acrylic on canvas

16x20 acrylic on canvas

After all of that, excitement will continue to flow with the Second Art Crawl on the North Shore.  This event will take place the weekend of the 21st and 22nd of April when the general public (including all of you!) will be able to visit 80 studios throughout the North Shore.  The 5enses will be at my studio at 997 Forest Hills Dr, and at Mena Martini's studio in West Vancouver, from 11am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday. Please bring your friends and enjoy chatting with the artists. It is a great opportunity to meet the artists in your community, in a very relaxed way and you will see a lot different art and studio where the work is done. FUN!

There will be more happening this Spring, so please stay tuned!