G A L L E R Y

A R C T U R U S

 


 

At the table


Painting by Mark Rothko


Love thy neighbour...

Liberty

crossing the desert

carrying what is left of the flag

face hidden beneath the stars.

 

Sheep huddle a distance behind

they do not know if she is friend or foe,

they don't remember when she was their shepherd,

when she kept them safe.

Liberty: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.

freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.

freedom from control, thinking, speaking , according to choice.

freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint:


A long climb up

...and then what?


Ghost Sightings (must be Halloween)



Influenced from the day before


Musical Interlude


Joseph Lammirato generously constructs and installs his works on telephone poles

on streets in cities far and wide. He has created these new works and hung them on

the wall surrounding the outside courtyard at the gallery. It seems when you stand

next to them that you are seeing music written on the fence.

Please come and visit.



What is Art?


Improvisation on Chagall


Marc Chagall

The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower (1938-39).


Pigeons know how to fly!


Watching the clouds go by


What the birds are wearing


Thank goodness it's Friday!


The Second Experiment

Collage by Sae Kimura


Fall


Small Moves, the first experiment

Light and Shadow


Illumination


I have a little bit of headache


Collage by deborah harris


Being Here and There


going through the papers


Also in the collage gallery


High Sky


New Genesis Gallery


8 new works in collage gallery

By Eduard Zibnitski


Looking out the window


The Cowgirls Visit

Installation in the main gallery

Charcoal drawing by Vivian Felsen


First Fall


Aligned


Revolving


Something Fishy


Holding change as an unopened flower


Climbing ladders


The mystery of objects out of context


Waiting


Irresistible

 

 

 

finding a fragment of an image

 

left lying on the table.

 

Every semblance of identity removed

 

and what remains?

 

eye and nose, closely cropped

 

looking at a single point of focus,  me

 

when I return that stare..

 

The face, incomplete

 

seeks another eye.

 

In paisley landscape what seems to be

 

an inward gaze and where the lines converge and twist

 

small circle, questioning, surprised,

 

a mouth

 

The features are expressed.

 

 

 

Without a body the face is a mask.

 

A body gives place to a face.

 

When it sits the face can nestle

 

drop in between the shoulders

 

chin slide towards resolve.

 

 

 

Hands

 

make agreement with visage

 

spontaneously sharing a language

 

known by habit.

 

 

 

Legs and arms are limbs from the same tree.

 

They may have sprouted from the head, roots

 

from the lima bean experiment in grade one.

 

 

 

The possibility of moving is in the feet

 

or of waiting

 

undecided,

 

to stay or to go.

 

 

 

Going is compact but serious.

 

Staying is inappropriate in the rough terrain

 

but tempting.

 

She could almost disappear in the surroundings

 

is porcelain against the rocks.

 

 

 

Light blushes crystal

 

bewitching time at sunset

 

sacred and auspicious,

 

to be here now.

 

 

dh

 

Harvesting Sunflowers


Photographs by Simeon Posen on exhibit in the photography gallery


TGIF


Five Paintings


In retreat

Mark Rothko, Woman Reading 1933


Tasting a colour


The sun descends


Enter the light


On the road to somewhere

Tis the season of the skunks!


Prayer


Moving towards the space between

It is observable that opposite colours

have a tension and a vibration between

them. A dynamic reverberation which

infuses the space between them.

 



A Gift Received

Big Little Lion

This collage was made for a little big Leo friend, Oto, for his 4th birthday.

Big energy in a  small body.

Still life with candle when the power is out

Still Life with White Cups

Hot as Hades


How do you know what you know?

A little bird told me so.

Just pretending to fish

We will resume the blog on Tuesday August 13th.

 

Be well.


Feeling hot and slow, almost on vacation

Four eyes, four legs, four hands, four letters




Who let the cat's in?

Stay Cool


Sitting on Eggs


Rain

The Art of Boro

 

Boro (ぼろ) are a class of Japanese textiles that have been mended or patched together.[1] The term is derived from the Japanese term "boroboro", meaning something tattered or repaired.[2] The term 'boro' typically refers to cotton, linen and hemp materials, mostly hand-woven by peasant farmers, that have been stitched or re-woven together to create an often many-layered material used for warm, practical clothing.

 


Butterfly landing in nature's collage


"Artists together"...


                              ...as our friend Floyd Kuptana used to say.

Elemental Beings


Singin' in the Rain


Friday Assembly


Faces

Video installation by Joachim Oepkes

A Rainy Day in July




Panning for Gold


Red meets yellow


Looking for red


From one room to another

something to be explored


Questions open doors

...answers close them

 

                                       try to keep asking


A Pissarro Day

  Berneval Meadows Morning

Camille Pissarro 1830-1903

 


A little bit of matcha green

(It looks bigger because it's closer than the boot)


Play Day

Inspired

Jean Édouard Vuillard (French artist, 1868-1940)

Marie at the Balcony Railing 1893


Chillin'


In the heat of the moment

Collage by Eron Boyd

Shades of black and white

Observing the creative process

 

Sometimes in collage workshops participants will express

that they are bored that their work seems to repeat patterns.

I believe recognizing our patterns makes perception visible.

We are able to see what we see or rather how we see.

 

Perhaps repetition is an attempt to penetrate understanding?

 

The above paintings are by Giorgio de Chirico.

1888-1978


Almost Falling Over


Too Much to Attend to...

 

 

 

 

...but nothing has dropped yet.


May I have compassion


Overcoming Their Differences


A show of hands


Revealing what is just below the surface


Aligned with the center

In the pink


Beauty is a gift

Sharing Inspiration

Today we had a visit from our friend Eric McConachie who lives and paints at his home in Haliburton.

During our visit he shared stories with us of Peter Camani.

This video will introduce him also to you.

Joyful

Sometimes when I open my mouth

a rhino comes out running

another pauses close behind

considering

Running and Considering

friendly siblings

on either side of expression.

 

 


Ascending to the top floor


The writing is on the wall


Out of the boudoir into the feild, a collage journey

Collage by deborah harris


Painting by Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947


A fugue in three movements


Collage by deborah harris

Collage by Jill Lawrence


Collage by Eron Boyd


Crow complains and Eagle listens

Photo by Dominique Cruchet

 

"The spring is here and the fields are full of yellow color and we met a crow and an eagle having a conversation in the middle of a field. It felt joyous to have seen them and that they kept arguing in front of us."

 

From Joan Cullen  and Dominique Cruchet in Prince Edward Island



reflection


Quilted




Finding ourselves at the table Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


One pigeon to another, "Thank goodness it's Friday!"