four years ago we were different

January 30, 2011 by keirartworks 1 Comment

fall, 2006 - we'd just started building that July

For comparison, here’s one from last year in June. Gods, I want to tell this story, and do it justice.

just before sunset, a year and a half ago ('09)

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Artist, Musician, Writer, Teacher. Mum to an incredible person, friend to many, Incredibles. Gardener. Thinker. Collaborator. K

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underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

Dad’s chopsaw – I cut an 1100 sq foot ash floor on this. Now it’s in a painting

detail of 4’x4′ painting in progress: D-ring snaffle bit

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

footprints 2 (underpainting)

moose – acrylic on paper, 2001 26″x40″ unframed. Not sold.

“Throwback”, 2014, 60″x60″, Acrylic on a piece of artist’s canvas (I’d used as a housepainting drop sheet for 15 years). $2,950.00

Cello Spine, from What Makes Us, 2004. Acrylic and vine charcoal on Linen, 6’x 28″, sold.

Hip Cello, from 2008, recently come back to me, since the owner has drastically reduced his wall space.. I’ve missed this one.

‘Black’. 2014, 36×36, acrylic on dyed cotton.

This is a huge canvas that has served as the ‘catcher of drips’ on my studio wall for the past six years. it will become four huge paintings – each with five years of painting drips embedded

Chalk Horse, 2014; 48″sq, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. I wrote two blogs about the process of this painting called “Letting Go”. Not sold; $1,850.00

detail from a painting I’m working on now. I think it’s about my parents…

polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

The only painting I cannot sell the original of – inspired by Ted Huges’ book “Crow”, and painted after a near-death experience on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. Two full-sized high-quality prints are left of an edition of 4 – $600. unframed each.

By tomorrow morning these two will be in the hall, and the next two up & talking. Stay with me, folks….

Hologram, from a series of paintings about music from 2001. I’ve always wanted to create a third image that exists in front of the painting, depending on the light & time of day. It worked in this one. Impossible to photograph, tho.

And shiny, reflective things…

3pm today. It has since transformed again. Sold.

plant fire

front

The one just finished. 60″x72″; $3,350. It’s difficult to understand scale here (thumbnails are same size as my face). This one had me on lock-down for the last two days of its’ fulfillment.

taken September 27th, 5pm.

three of five images, underdrawing…

from #Selfie (2014). inverse image of me on white indian cotton.

Beaver River valley, from What Makes Us, 2004. 18″ w x 48″, sold.

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

blue ground from “Axe” before cheesecloth and netting layer applied

detail of Snaffle Bit (in progress). 4′ square

“Bee”, acrylic and graphite on paper, 1999. 6×8″. Original is sold, but I am in the process of making prints. Will post on art page when they’re available

new series: foot prints1 (underpainting)

Algomarine at dock in Owen Sound harbour. I took this photo in 2009, and used in 2014 it as reference for the background of “Axe”

“Snakeroot”, 6×6″, graphite and acrylic on paper, 1999. Sold

functional art – cobalt blue runner; sienna napkins – 5′ .5″ long by 24″ wide, back flannel back. $289.00 plus shipping

detail from “Manitoulin”, which I painted in 2004. This one’s big – approx 7’w x 5’h

drawing on background for ‘Axe’

“Round I: Pilgrimage”, 36″, mixed media on canvas

‘shovel’ very close to finished

From #Selfie (2014). ‘Masks’ – 84″ x 36″; mixed media on canvas; $3,250.00

apologies – this is a studio shot and I was in a rush – show opening 2 hours hence. It’s a bit blurry. Will post proper shot when I can…

#Selfie (Summer 2014 solo show): Round II: Surrender. 24″ Work in progress

6×6″, mixed media on paper, 1999 (sold)

detail d. intervention 2

detail of the same painting

drawing on background

Silence (detail), from Sea Hear, 2001

taken when I was backing up Larry Jensen at The Court House, somewhere around 2004

“wishbones”, 1999, 6×8″, acrylic and graphite on paper. Sold

this one is singing now….

diptych Shovel/Axe. 29″w x 78″h (x 2). $1799. each; $3,600. as dyptich.

I wanted to put the ‘positive’ image on the black ground, and the inverse one on white… Here’s the drawing

Here’s the photoshop sketch for Red. Looking also for another image to layer on top of this for symbolic reasons… it will come.

inheritance from two families on my mother’s side: A proud sign from Kennedy Foundry of Owen Sound, hanging on the wall of Circle Bar Ladies’ Hosiery factory, also in Owen Sound, owned and operated by my mom & aunt’s grandparents, Walter and Catherine Keebler.

“Resonance”, from Sea Hear (2001). 60″x48″; sold

me hiding behind my other self

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