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

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

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

And shiny, reflective things…

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

front

drawing on background

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

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

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

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

underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

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

“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

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

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.

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

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

detail of the same painting

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

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

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

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.

taken September 27th, 5pm.

plant fire

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

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

Silence (detail), from Sea Hear, 2001

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

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.

detail d. intervention 2

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

polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

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…

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

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

‘shovel’ very close to finished

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 of Snaffle Bit (in progress). 4′ square

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

me hiding behind my other self

three of five images, underdrawing…

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

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”

footprints 2 (underpainting)

new series: foot prints1 (underpainting)

“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

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

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

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

this one is singing now….

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

drawing on background for ‘Axe’

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

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.

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