I am happy to say I have kept up my timed 5-minute practice experiment that I started a couple of weeks ago. It feels pretty good doing this quick practice so I am committing to more of it… maybe for a year, maybe less. I’m not good with super long…
This slow art experiment was again inspired by The Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman. He suggests in his book to work on a creative piece for one week by adding only one element each day. I decided to try this on a wood block that I had worked on but…
When I started the 5-minute collage experiment, I was inspired to create a bunch of mail art and to send it to some family and friends. Up to now, I had only been responding to calls for mail art exhibitions and to calls from individuals with personal projects. I thought…
It feels sometimes like we/I spend too much time setting goals and figuring out what we want to achieve. I think it is an obsession with our society and I think I think about it too much. I often wish I could live a simpler life without all the modern…
This past Saturday I facilitated a workshop in mail art. I talked a little about the history and what mail art looked like before and now. We had several people in the workshop that had been active in mail art and some that are now active in the movement. It…
I’m looking forward to teaching a mail art workshop tomorrow at Britannia Community Centre. The workshop is organized by the Britannia Art Gallery which works with artists to offer free workshops throughout the year. Of course artists do get paid–I feel that is an important detail for people to know….
This past August I had a show at the Britannia Art Gallery. The show was called Here Today. Here Today is a mixed-media photographic project shown through souvenir pocket mirrors and focusing on landmarks and establishments connected to the Italian community in the Commercial Drive area and a little beyond….
A city has many faces. Your lifestyle determines what you see but your mind tells you what to seek out. What speaks to you and why? How do you see your city, your town, your village? In my new limited-edition journals on Vancouver I show you how I see the…
I am currently taking a textile design course for the Art Education Diploma at the University of British Columbia. One of the requirements is that we keep a reflection journal where we record what we’ve seen and how we felt about it–of course it has to be textile related. I…
I’d like to show you how many changes and layers there can be in an art journal page. For me the process is unpredictable. A little planning always gets me started but this can be simply the decision to start the first layer with blues and the next with a…