G A L L E R Y
A R C T U R U S
Inside the studio
Three interpretations of an etching by Alexei Kravchenko
Planting Poles
Watching a work crew maneuver a huge timber into position, replacing old electrical poles with new. An incredible feat of engineering and coordination, staggering to observe. This opportunity came right in front of my house.
Forcing ourselves to see more
Collage by Sae Kimura Collage by deborah harris
Painting by Jean Edouard Vuillard 1891
Finally it's Spring
Paintings by Eric Mc Connachie
On display in the Ascending Gallery
Platform 2, After the Storm
Collage by deborah harris
Painting by Walter Sickert
Same caravan different time of day
When we made copies of the Sickert painting our copier went crazy on the colour and produced this one you see here.
We immediately engaged in correcting the imperfections on the printer but after strongly rejecting this copy I ended up
being inspired to base my collage on this depiction. The collage above while looking significantly different was an attempt
to interpret Walter Sickert's painting. This exercise is always such a learning in how and what we observe.
Visiting the Caravan
Collage by Sae Kimura
Painting by Walter Sickert
Something of a Sci-fi mystery
Maybe it was the strange music that was playing
or the mechanical hum of the computer
but influences find their way into us and consequently into the process of collage.
That is one way of seeing those influences outside of ourselves
Life is like collage and collage is like dream
As the World Turns....things change
Feeling a bit under the weather
Beware the winds of March
The Dog Crossed Over
I can now understand why Picass'o did 58 variations on this painting 'Las Meninas' I feel that I am also obsessed, trying to sense the relationships of light and dark which give shape and depth to this space. With every collage something is discovered and something is left out. Doing it from memory and sensation is so much more interesting than trying to be guided by
refering to the print. The panel of Sae's collage with dog connects in an uncanny way to my collage on the right. It is as if
he walked across to the other side of the room from where he was first depicted. Being witness to Sae's interpretation of
the same painting is so exciting. It seems we consistently have an opposite focus. We hope that you can observe something
of our process from looking at this series of collages.
Collaging in the third dimension
Infanta Margaret Theresa
Las Meninas,1656 by Diego Velazquez
What was found today
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me....I put all the things I like into my pictures.
The things - so much the worse for them; they just have to put up with it.
Picasso In His Words
Giving Form
Painting (art itself) isn't an
aesthetic operation; it's a form
of magic designed as a
mediator between this strange,
hostile world and us, a way of
seizing the power by giving form
to our terrors as well as our desires.
When I came to that realization,
I knew I had found my way.
Picasso
Waiting for Return
Choosing a Path of Light
After a rather long hibernation the light has entered in to the cave calling to come out and engage in the world
Miss Kitty inviting horse to the Christmas party
Wishing all of you a very merry Christmas and a peaceful entry into the New Year.
The gallery will be closed as of tomorrow the 20th til the 6th of January 2026!
Sae is visiting Japan and deborah is staying in TO. We will put up blogs intermittently till we return in full in the new year.
Be well and thank you for you staying in tune with us.
Following the lights
Early morning.
As different as night and day or opposite sides of the same coin
See if you can find 8 opposites.
Waiting for the thaw
...maybe by spring
Postures
Collages by deborah harris
Impartial Reporting
Wet snow all day creating slushy conditions
Freezing by nightfall with very slippery conseqeunces
Listen
The Call of the Reed
- Listen to the reed and the tale it tells,
- how it sings of separation:
- Ever since they cut me from the reed bed,
- my wail has caused men and women to weep.
- I want a heart torn open with longing
- to share the pain of this love.
- Whoever has been parted from their source
- longs to return to that state of union.
- Rumi
- [Mathnawi I, 1–4]¹
Transformation
Creating the Christmas Pageant and all the sculptures are auditioning for the different roles.
Adrian Symond's wooden figure was chosen for the part of the second angel.
Birth is the creation of possibility
The Adoration of the Shepherds painting by Lorenzo Lotto in 1534
A perfect complexity of movement
Sculpture by Billy Gerard Odwori
A week or two ago, maybe three already, Billy an artist recently come from Uganda, visited the gallery, not for the first time.
After talking with Ed and I at the front desk he pulled this sculpture out of his bag to show us.
It was and is staggering that he could make something this dynamic, balanced, proportioned,
and so small (it is about a foot in height) out of paper mache. I asked him if I could purchase
it from him and he was excited to sell it. I placed it immediately in the East Genesis Gallery
which has a working theme of 'a m a t t e r o f s p i r i t' . This sculpture embodies both.
These two work together... really!
Sae
deborah
