Left Brain Artists
…is easy Summertime descended upon us fast, as often is the case with Canadian season transitions…winter blues turns into a short spring bliss when everything grows at ‘5 inches a day rate’ and, in few short weeks, we are settled in full summer; bloom and nature lushness, surprising and abundant. There is an excitement about […]
Masks – Anthropology, Art and Covid Our identity is expressed in different ways, but most often through facial expressions -a mirror of our souls. Smile, wrinkled forehead, eyes shining with excitement or drowning in tears. But, we often cover our face – out of necessity, or belief, or deceit, or playfulness – to assume an […]
Painting, photography, symbolism This writing was inspired by flowers as a theme in art, their association with women, whether art subjects or artists, and, in particular, by flowers painted by one of our ‘Close to Heart’ artists, Georgia O’Keeffe (visit our project collection of female artists’ stories). How often is a male artist, compared to […]
Women artists How many of you go lighthouse hunting on your coastal trips? Lighthouses are beacons of a destination, harbour, safety, hope….Romanticized, lonely, whitstanding onslaught of elements, standing firm for sailors, battered and lost. No wonder lighthouses have a draw, an appeal, a symbolic value for artists and common day tourists alike; I have a […]
They belong to different cultures and lands. They lived in renaissance, revolutions, modernism, or are contemporaries. In some provocative takes, they may even ‘live’ and create in the future. In some instances, these presentations were meant to bring them out of ‘obscurity’ and to stimulate others to read and learn more about them. In other […]
Woman artists The session that started this project was exploring a woman as an ‘art subject’; albeit with a modern, fun and personal ‘twist’. Two contemporary women artists, encountered on travels, brought to the group their own personal takes on an ambiguous ‘nature of a woman’. Lush, round, sophisticated, moody…Fleeting gestures, feline companions, contemplative, centers […]
Left Brain Artists