Showing Artwork at "The Queen's Bakery" Blyth, Ontario

Here are some photos that I took at "The Queen's Bakery" across from the Blyth Festival Theatre in Blyth Ontario. This cafe is known for it great baked goods but a nice place to meet and friend for lunch or a coffee. I am exhibiting with Goderich Artist Mona Mulhern. Our artwork in this exhibit is concentrating on Landscape, in our perspectives, of course. Her artwork is on the right in the first photograph. The second photograph shows a close up of several of my artworks for sale on the beautiful brick wall. These artworks will be up for the next few months if you would like to see them in person. There are some affordable small pieces on the wall near the door as well as over the coffee fixings..... great gifts for Christmas.  Kim Wilkie

New Landscape-type Paintings - just need to Varnish.

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 .... 

New Material Under the Paint

New Materials Under the Paint The paintings just below this paragraph are from a workshop and a sojourn in Tuscany, Italy, June 2017. I did not have my usual materials with me, such as string and threads, but I did have the materials from the landscape itself and its impressions on me. Because the materials are new, the artwork took on a different kind of style and a new type of expression for me. Most of these canvases include raw cotton which I found at La Fratta in Sinalunga, Tuscany, Italy. The last image shows the raw cotton - which serendipity plays a part here since it is the bases for string or thread here in North America.  Each painting is approximately 11 inches by 11 inches. They are all framed.  

Expressing -As Time Goes On

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!

"Dear John" Letter - A Love Letter Embroidered

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.

The Details - Please Scroll

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

My studio is now in Benmiller! But my art is going places.

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!

Gainsborough Gallery Open 11-5pm Tuesday to Sunday- Until August 13th,2016 London ON

And my working studio has been completely moved to Benmiller, Ontario.

From one window to another.

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, ....  

      

"Press Play" Continues at KDW Fine Art

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