Here Today is the title of my exhibition coming up in August. In this exhibit, I am reflecting on landmarks and establishments connected to the Italian community in the Commercial Drive area (my neighbourhood) and beyond. Commercial Drive used to be called Little Italy but this name does not apply…
Laura
When things get too busy…this blog gets no attention. I am overwhelmed and often tired these days! I’m taking my second online course through SFU on technical writing. At the end of May I’ll have to decide whether I want to commit to the Certificate program–it’s not an easy decision….
Last week I mailed off my first mail art piece which was for a mail art call to be exhibited in May at the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Vancouver Island (BC, Canada). Mail art is fairly new to me. I had been aware of it somewhat but never really explored…
Last year, in August, I submitted a proposal for an exhibition at my local art gallery/ library. At Britannia library, there is a small community art gallery. It’s a very small and unassuming gallery that gives emerging and established community artists the opportunity to show and share their work with…
Last Friday I went to see the Fred Herzog exhibition at Equinox Project Space. Fred Herzog captured Vancouver street scenes in colour photography starting from the 1950s and continued for about 50 years. The exhibition consists of a great number of his works and gives you a really good picture…
I started this art journal page today and I may work on it some more. I’ve been wanting to do more pieces with typewriters, so today I tried hand-drawing my Brother typewriter from a photograph. I’m pretty happy with the results as I consider myself more of a photo-based artist….
I have been quiet on the blog front but that’s because I’ve been busy (since I got an iphone) with Instagram — a free app that allows you to take a picture and easily share it with your Twitter and Facebook followers. It’s now so convenient to post updates. So,…
I always try to record what my display looked like for a show — this one the One of a Kind Show Vancouver — so that I can stand back and really look at it and think what I would do different next time. Overall, I was pretty pleased with…
You can now purchase my lined hand-screenprined journals at Bird on a Wire Creations in Vancouver. They have one of each of my designs, one of them being the ones shown below. This very nice store is on Main Street at Broadway. Great place for gift shopping for local and…
My journal project: eco-friendly lined journals made in Canada with covers screenprinted by me in my Vancouver studio. About this Journal: I shot this image of the parked boat when I was living in New Waterford, a small town in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The going was pretty tough there….