Left Brain Artists
Mind-filler story I came to experience a period of flirting with sexual ‘fluidity’ in my teenage years, sneaking out of control, parental and educational, to watch (then highly controversial) ‘Emmanuelle‘. Although I was firmly ‘she’, I did not shy away from experimenting kisses with girls or dressing in ‘man’s’ clothes. It was definitely an experimental, […]
Mind filler story I have a friend who is losing her faculties to Alzheimer’s, slowly but visibly – each time we meet, a distance of a few months, an inevitability of her decline sets in, sadly; she is fading away… Fading away…recent memories thinning out, clinging to the past, emotions flat or irritated, pinning time […]
Mixed media art One of our fellow studio artists, speaking of her art process, said once: ‘..I start by splashing some inks onto the paper to see what happens…’ ..and then, a background, a serendipity, inspires the rest… How many incredible artworks have emerged from a splashed-on backgrounds? A foundation, beginning, an insinuation, a subtle […]
Gel plate image transfer Things are not always as we see them. Every image has layers – surface, underneath-background, and invisible. Gel plate image transfers allow us to rearrange these layers into something utterly unexpected. The invisible emerges, secrets of the image revealed. A transformation. We do not fully control this transformation – we are just […]
Botanical prints Planting in Canada is ‘scheduled’ for Victoria Day – second half of May. Anything planted before that ‘turn of the season’ is in danger! Just a week before the ‘right planting date’, I rushed to cover my bougainvillea, recently moved from the winter indoors to the patio, to protect it from a sudden […]
A monoprint assembly Can a monochromatic ‘pallete’ replace the expressive and emotional impacts of colored paintings? I automatically reach for paint tubes, rarely thinking of ‘other ways’, my inner impulse. Yet, I stand in owe before Natasha’s and Hung’s black and white photos, moved, drawn in, mesmerized… I am who I am, have to listen […]
Gel plate image prints Image transfers using gel plate lead to their utter transformation. And the fascination of one world changing into another, unpredictably. Hunt for images in glossy magazines is mostly driven by their contemporary appeal, stereotypes enforced by advertising, fashion, design. Gel plate turns them into essentially monochromatic prints, faded, specled, grainy, aged, […]
Rice paper monotype prints Line in art comprises one of the seven most known elements (the other six being form, shape, value, color, texture, and space). These are formal art tools that are applied to create a visual art composition and span across all fine arts, photography, architecture… In a very simple classification, lines (in […]
Still life paintings I have always wondered why this painting ‘genre’ is called ‘still life’ (in my mother tongue – ‘dead nature’ – literally)? The snippets of table arrangements, flowers in a window sill, fruits gathered in bowls, kitchen and dining ware are all equally lively as the ‘living’ nature, social scenes, faces or figures. […]
Mixed media acrylic paintings Remember Les Automatistes, a Quebec avant-garde artistic group of 1950s practicing ‘automatic painting’, blind-folded, un-intentional, expression of subconscious? And our ‘Close to Heart’ Marcelle Ferron among them? Is it truly possible to create a stunning painting by random unconscious movements, without any contemplation at all? Just look at her paintings, and […]
Left Brain Artists