constricted – Keira McArthur

April 12, 2016May 8, 2018

Colour Pages #4: Red like Joan

I hold Red in my mind and thoughts rise like bubbles. They're not what I expect. This decision is rooted in fear. I'm stuck in Repeat. I'm…

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Pavement V: Three Crosses, 2019 conte, acrylic and vine charcoal on paper, machine sewn lowest edge.

Pavement IV: Fence 2019 acrylic, oil pastel and vine charcoal on paper. Machine sewn lower edge.

Pavement III: Stairs 2019, conte, oil pastel, acrylic and vine charcoal on paper. Machine sewn edge.

Pavement II: Gate. oil pastel, acrylic and vine charcoal on paper. Machine sewn bottom edge. Improvisation meets structure, and a narrative emerges.

Bell 4: Sound Waves [detail] near completion at Hamilton Residency, 2019

Bell 4: Dark, @ residency studio. working on push/pull surface reflections

Bell 3: Dark near completion at Hamilton Residency

"wishbones", 1999, 6x8", acrylic and graphite on paper. Sold

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

We had goats when I was a kid [nubians]. I have enormous respect and love for them.

Me painting at age 16

"Snakeroot", 6x6", graphite and acrylic on paper, 1999. Sold

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

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

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

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

this one is singing now….

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

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

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.

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

front

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

“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

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

three of five images, underdrawing…

'Black'. 2014, 36x36, acrylic on dyed cotton.

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

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

underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

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…

taken September 27th, 5pm.

detail of the same painting

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

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

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.

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

polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

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

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

"Bee", acrylic and graphite on paper, 1999. 6x8". Original is sold, but I am in the process of making prints. Will post on art page when they're available

“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

Silence (detail), from Sea Hear, 2001

plant fire

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”

And shiny, reflective things…

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

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

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

detail d. intervention 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

drawing on background for ‘Axe’

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

‘shovel’ very close to finished