I have been busy with life in general but art goes on- Some artworks this past late summer seemed to just finish up nicely even though each one called for a different treatment... they are all unique and range in size...... and so now I feel that large is the way to go. I started with 3 feet by 3 feet canvases and ended up with canvases at 4 feet by 5 feet. Here is a sneak peak before I put them on the website... I need to varnish them... I have 9 out of the ten artworks completed ....
Because I am away from my studio, I tend to read and do art that is easy to pack. I just wanted to show you a sketch book that I have been filling with personal abstract expressions when the mood hits me. (which can be a necessity sometimes) The book pages are about 6 inches by 6 inches. You can see the binding in the photos-- but since the book is not finished.... I guess you could call this a continuous work in progress. Enjoy!
My love letter does start with Dear John, but it is a true love letter to my husband John. The letter took a long time to stitch on paper but I finally finished it and framed it for my husband as a gift for our anniversary. I started it before our anniversary in August but did not finish the letter until just before Christmas. I hope this can in some way amend the memory of the standard letter of a woman terminating a personal relationship with a service man in the past. It is the detail and sentiment of the letter that may help this position but also the beauty of the letter itself stitched with metallic thread. In the past it was an art to send and receive hand written letters, in this letter it actually becomes art in itself because of my stitching and I think that the back of the letter is the best side. The threads are beautifully extended across the paper mixing all the metallic threads into a new type of abstraction. I love String! I love John.
Above are small photo details of paintings that are already completed and they show a semblance of the beauty I see up close while I am in my decision making art process. I decide the compositional scene (with materials or string) I choose the colours & tones that will be depicted and whether or not I will complete the artwork with stitching, in some past artworks the stitching was beneath the paint as well. Making art is my addiction or my secular religion, I told someone recently. When I begin an artwork what keeps me focused is the promise of creating something new and exciting to me ( and hopefully exciting to someone else) but it is the texture, colour, and feeling that I get from viewing the artwork up close that keeps me focused when the stitching becomes a long & laborious process. Enjoy the above detail photos! Kim
The top image shows my artwork in the gallery setting at the Huron County Museum. It was kind of befitting that my artwork was right beside a manikin with a woven dress and aptly an easel. Cloth and paint! The exhibition continues until December 18th! The address is 110 North St.. Goderich Ontario.
Image 1, shows where I am going this coming weekend. There is a one day art show and sale on Saturday September 24th in Elliot Lake! It is called "Arts on the Trail" and I have been invited to go with another artist friend Morag Webster.
Image 2, exhibits one of my abstract artworks in the window of the "Muse Shop & Rental" at Museum London. I am the feature artist at the "Muse Shop" for the months of September and October and I have several others on display too! Come take a look! [2016]
Image 3, I was very excited to have a detail of my artwork used for the invitation to the Annual Juried Exhibition called "in view of the artist" at the St. Thomas Elgin Public Art Centre this year!! The Opening for this exhibition is October 1st from 1-3 pm, 2016!
Image 4, This is my new creative space! My studio in Benmiller, Ontario. It is kind of serendipitous (because I use string) that a wool mill was in the area now called Benmiller Inn & Spa!
In the past year, I have looked out the widow of my studio on Gainsborough Road to where some tennis courts use to be. It was wonderful because trees were growing up on the tarmac and I had the pleasure of seeing these trees in all the seasons. It was enough of nature for me to be glad I made the choice to be in this spot along with the accompaniment of the large window that lights up the whole room right to the back wall. What every artist dreams of.... I sit and look now at the walls of a beautiful exhibit called "Press Play" which includes six wonderful artists from London and Toronto, including me. The first picture above shows the outside window of the gallery which use to house my studio/gallery on Gainsborough Road. The second is one of my conceptual artworks that I installed called "String Theory." The 3rd picture above shows my new semi organized studio in Benmiller Ontario, only an hour and fifteen minutes away. And the last photo above is a close up of one of the windows to nature just outside my studio in Benmiller! Please come and see the artwork from Jill Price, Leslie Putnam, Elly Pakalnis, Morag Webster, Katherine Haine and myself for the last exhibit here on Gainsborough Road, ....
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If you recall, my studio gallery looked a lot like this at the beginning of September last year....just before I Opened KDW Fine Art Studio Gallery. The third image above is a reflection of a full studio gallery with all my art work just before the "London Studio Tour" this past summer. That was so much Fun!
