Local colour map of the Eldorado, Ontario, Canada.
Pigment in glair binder on paper with pencil and ink; 24″/61cm x 38.5″/98cm; 2013.
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I’m busy at work today exploring the local colours of Eldorado, Ontario. This is a place that I’ve visited many times over the years and I love the colour that comes from this location. Over the past few days I’ve managed to take the natural ochre from this community and subject it to temperatures ranging … Read more
Local colour map of the Porte de l’Enfer, Ontario, Canada.
Pigment in glair binder on paper with pencil and ink; 24″/61cm x 38.5″/98cm; 2013.
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Before leaving San Diego, I had the chance to attend the True Blue exhibition currently happening at the MinGei Gallery in Balboa Park! The show explores the colour blue by categorizing works into four materials: Indigo, Turquoise, Cobalt and Lapis Lazuli. The pieces on display are all beautiful, functional, and mostly from anonymous sources, which … Read more
Yesterday I walked to visit the Sunset Cliffs … here’s a place that’s already a paint palette! The diversity of colours is amazing! I collected a couple of rocks while walking along the cliff and the beach … I think I’ll make an atlas map when I get home.
Yesterday I had an amazing opportunity to paint with a group of Luiseño children on the La Jolla Reservation north of San Diego. For over a decade, Dr. Norrie Robbins has been running the Science Explorers Club at reservations around San Diego with the express purpose of nourishing a love of the outdoors and sharing values that protect the … Read more
I’m very excited to share that my local-colour spidergram installation has been recently finished! All of my local-colour spidergrams—whether on paper or on walls—are about exploring a place through its colours. As a visual artist, this has proven to be a great adventure for me and for the communities with which I’ve worked.
It was a wonderfully blue weekend (not emotionally, or musically, but colour-wise!). Autumn has suddenly arrived here in Conestoga and with it the possibility of a frost that would ruin my crop of woad. With cold nights predicted in the new week, I decided it was time to harvest.
I never knew that there were places in Canada where one could stand and be surrounded by a rainbow of brightly coloured earth—ochres and umbers creating every imaginable shade of yellow, red, and brown. But, I’ve discovered that Saint-Malo, in Quebec, is one such place …In researching possible places to explore for local-colour pigments on … Read more
