Earth Bodies Exhibition
Group show
Giving as a Way of Being:A Ceremonial Practice Exploring Life and Loss
Perhaps it is in the sacred act of letting go that creates an opening to the process of life as a giving…
it’s not the act of giving or what we give that makes the difference,
it's that we open ourselves up to
giving as a way of being
I began each day making a tiny earthenware offering vessel from materials of this place, filling its belly with nourishing food and giving the food as a daily offering to the ocean…
just begin with the intention, and act, of giving daily to the ocean waters
and see what happens
The daily ritual became an invocation of sorts that opened a way of engaging more deeply with my inner world and the spirit of this place.
Oct 17 - Nov 8, 2024 Qathet Art Centre, Powell River, B.C.
Art Crawl
Oct 18-20, 2024
I am so delighted to be showing with internationally renowned painter of Westcoast land and seascapes, Marleen Vermeulen, 733 Courtney Road, Gibsons.
Curating a sensory experience in Marleen’s home studio situated within the coastal temperate rainforest.
Image by Marleen
ART WALK
I will be sharing with the community my project, Comraiche, which means Sanctuary in Scottish Gaelic.
The art walk will be during the Qathet Studio Tour, August 24 & 25, 2024, in Lund, BC at the at Tidal Art Centre.
There are 4 installations right here at Tidal Art Centre. Look for signs that will guide you to each location.
#1 World Within Worlds: patina spheres on driftwood at the top of the stairs under the Japanese maple tree.
#2 Tidal Flats: a series of 4 opening vessels and one sphere on Finn Bay shoreline (will be moved around depending on the tides).
#3 Tidal Flats: a series of 12 tiny patina earthenware vessels on Finn Bay shoreline (will be moved around depending on the tides).
#4 Orare: a handmade book that documents new moon to new moon for two cycles (wip) under the Cedar tree in the garden.
*** STUDIO Please be sure to come into the kiln shed studio where this all began with processing clay, making spheres and spontaneously inviting people in the community to join me in clay explorations.
Click on audio file to hear more about my journey.
This photo of one of my pit fired sculptures on the rocks by the Salish Sea has been selected to be part of
The LAND issue, in Canada’s photoEd magazine digital extra ed. January, 2024
'Chthonic’ features an artifact made by hand, birthed from earth, and directly of and relating to earth as one who has been to the depths. The image invites us to be in conversation with what’s under the surface that’s rarely exposed.
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl this year.
Oct 20, 21 & 22, 2023
Featuring NEW Bone Series
and work made in my art residency in Japan
4866 Sinclair Bay Rd, Garden Bay
with VandenBroek Art
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
for realizing Living in the Bone House Project at wabisavillage, Japan, this year.