Lilypads- Intaglio and Collograph with Gordon Trick

collograph print

Tea Time- Intaglio and Collograph with Gordon Trick

collograph/ intaglio print

Camera series and Organs fall 2007

people drawings from the last two years- mostly self directed

Advanced Drawing with Lesley Finlayson

This is what we  did today! 

Painting Series: Sea to Sky corridor- second year painting with Catherine Broderick

The excavators doing the man's work to destroy the natural habitat...I am just a little bitter.  This was homage to Harriet Nahanee, other elders, concerned BC citizens and protection of eagle ridge bluffs. Unfortunately the government won and the bluff is now a blasted piece of garbage and Harriet passed on shortly after being jailed for protesting. With the Olympics fast approaching there are some corrupt things happening with the tax payers money. VANOC has invaded and I am getting out!! It is sad driving the sea to sky corridor knowing what it once looked like.

http://harrietspirit.blogspot.com/ 

This is it at the grad show from April 23- May 2 on the east side of the library at Langara College in Vancouver British Columbia.

Glass block sculpture- final term 2nd year with Luke Blackstone

Process:

These blocks were once a wall. I took it apart, cleaned it, taped them up, sandblasted a quote on them, 

untaped them and cleaned them again, built an aluminum structure with pop-rivets and a drill and a metal cutting drill and a lot of patience and trial and error with aluminum welding, then strategically placed the blocks so they would fit in the aluminum structure and silicone glued them together so that the structure would be sturdy and long lasting.  So what may seem like a few glass blocks stacked in a reflecting pool was actually a few months of preparing and planning, and a lot of trips back and forth from the sandblaster.

Why:

 The finished result I called "cultural theory" because of the quote I chose by Louis Althusser in which he contemplates Ideology and the human consciousness of trapping ourselves within it.  The quote is: "Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence." I chose it because the sculpture was to be site specific in the reflecting pool by the Langara College library. I learned about Althusser in my Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Arts course and how we succumb to imaginary relationships such as language, religion, politics, structures, money etc. without a question. Knowledge is an important tool and the glass-blocks I chose to resemble books I wanted to convey a message. Since they are transparent it also represents the transparencies with our society's structure and how we need to recognize how we live and question why we do things or act a certain way.  Thank you to my professor Dr. Lynn Ruscheinsky for all her wisdom throughout the past two years and opening my eyes to reality. I recommend the course to anyone who likes philosophy!

There they are all framed up for the grad show in April 2008.

Two intaglio prints.

The one on the left is an aquatint of an uprooted tree on Gabriola island sugarlifted onto a zinc plate and acid etched, and then aquatinted. I call it "uprooted".

The one on the right is a collograph plate mixed with a zinc plate etching of a drawing I did of my favorite swing set in Vancouver located at Ontario and 8th I believe. I learned so much from doing these two and also framed them myself!  

second year design with Tim Nash

This is a design piece...I found an old wooden toy train and dismantled it and then put it back together. It turned out pretty neat. Approx. 10'' wide and 8" high. Stained in a shellac for the orange tinge.

I drew on this everyday for a week. It is a wall piece approx 48 x 48''. I did it when I took a course at Emily Carr in 2004. It is an older piece but I really enjoyed the process.

First year Painting with Lesley Finlayson

This is an acrylic painting done with inspiration from a dream and the mexican desert. It is approx 23 x 29''. Completed in spring 2007. This is still my favorite painting I have done.

serigraphy with Tim Nash- a series of prints that everyone in the class received one of.

This is a layered serigraphy print from a trip I took with some great friends to Baja Mexico in 2003. It is a mixture of photography and drawing. Done in spring 2007 size approx 5 x 7 ''

Here is the final result...

this video was shot and edited by Tyler in the spring of 2007. It is one of the first abstract paintings that I did, and it was not planned so it is spontaneous and experimental.  I may have pushed it a bit, but it was a great learning experience and really neat to see it once Ty was finished editing it.

serigraphy with Gordon Trick- 1st emulsion screen print

this is a tonal silkscreen...self portrait. edition of 16. fall 2006

First year sculpture with Jim Corte

This tree was an installation piece made from wood and paper products that are thrown away. In the centre was 2 wooden frames that made a hollow opening where a paper heart hung.  It was a commentary on how wasteful we are at the expense of our forests. It was installed at Langara for one day and then disassembled. Spring 2007.

This photo was taken by Tyler. He actually filmed me painting this triptych to a modest mouse song "gravity rides everything"...I will try to post the video clip

serigraphy with Gordon Trick

this is a 3 part colour silkscreen print of my front entrance

this the drying rack in the printmaking studio...hot off the press...

this is a painting of Tyler done in summer 2007 with acrylic paint. It is approx 12 x 24''.

may is a month of reflection

I am going to go through and find some pictures of art work I have done in the past two years and post them for you to see what I have been up to. Right now is a transitional phase from college to University, from Vancouver to Nova Scotia and all the little things in between. Right now I am enjoying time with friends, doing more art, getting more ideas and figuring out the path I am meant to go...which usually leads to the forest or some sort of mountain or lake.