tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81012360741315723072024-02-06T20:32:08.717-08:00Kathy WhiteFibre Artist, Ontario, Canada<br>
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Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-54813676094707798782019-09-17T12:03:00.000-07:002019-09-17T12:03:02.572-07:00Head in the Clouds <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of many amazing cloud photos I took while out walking in Stratford this summer.</td></tr>
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<b>Well hello there! </b><br />
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<b>I wish I could show you a picture of this morning's sunrise here in Stratford, ON.</b> Pink clouds streaked across a baby blue sky while the waning moon hung heavy and silver and the seagulls wheeled across it all, flashing white and black. I stood and watched for awhile, marveling for the umpteenth time just how beautiful the skies have been this summer.<br />
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<b>Has anyone else noticed this? </b><br />
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<b>It has been a summer of gorgeous skies.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Stratford sunrise I tried to hold on to.</td></tr>
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<b>Or maybe I've just been tuned in to clouds lately. </b>My two current bodies of work have got me thinking about how clouds are formed and how we make sense of them visually.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is the duck thinking about clouds too?</td></tr>
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<b>In my <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2019/04/august-on-bank-of-st-lawrence-or-maybe.html" target="_blank">April post</a> (Yikes - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kathywhiteart/" target="_blank">Instagram is taking over my posting habits!</a>) I wrote about the inspiration and method behind the St. Lawrence Estuary Series,</b> which I was just starting.<br />
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<b>You can see that clouds are a large part of the scene.</b> That forced me to pay attention to how we perceive depth in clouds and got me looking to the skies for solutions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first four studies in the St. Lawrence Estuary series, inspired by a single magnificent sunset over the rising river.</td></tr>
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<b>I started with smaller studies and then started to increase the scale. </b>This method of 'sampling' began with the <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2018/06/" target="_blank">Making Waves</a> series and has now become an important part of how I work.<br />
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<b>My latest completed piece in the Estuary series is 9" x 12 "x 1" </b>and makes good use of what I learned from the studies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">19:43:34 on August 1, 2018, St. Lawrence Estuary Series, Wool and Beeswax on Wood Panel, 9" x 12" x 1"</td></tr>
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<b>One of my goals for 2019 is to work on hand dyeing local wools to use in my art work. </b>I used onion skins and wool from Steel Wool Farms in Blyth for my first experiment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Local wool hand dyed with onion skins to use in my work.</td></tr>
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<b>The colours from the onion skin dye needed to be placed against a blue, I thought, to look their best. </b>Blue got me thinking about sky and sky led to clouds and I was off - dreaming about clouds again, but subtle orangey-pink clouds zoomed in close.<br />
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<b>At the same time, I was reading When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron</b> and I was taken with her idea of the dramas we build around our lives beginning to collapse as we stop feeding them energy. Hence the working title for this body of work - <i>Collapsing Dramas.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What my work table looked like yesterday morning. Collapsing Dramas series in progress.</td></tr>
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<b>On September 28th & 29th, I am offering my first ever intensive style workshop in Blyth, Ontario. </b>Over the years, many of you have asked to learn how to work 'over the corners' on gallery style panels as I do in my work. Well, good news, this workshop covers that and a lot more. We will talk about incorporating other media into your work, like fabric and paint. We will also work on developing an idea from scratch to finished product. Learn more and register <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/product/wool-painting-with-kathy-white-intermediate-lab-workshop/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Special thanks goes out to Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston</b>, director of the <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">Fashion Arts & Creative Textiles Studio</a> in Blyth, Ontario for hosting this workshop and also for showing my work in the stunning new FACTS gallery, along with many other talented local fibre artists.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working with the botanically dyed wool from the FACTS natural dyeing weekend 2018. 2019's classes are this weekend! More info <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr>
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<b>The last quarter of 2019 promises to be a busy one.</b> October brings speaking engagements, the Ontario Hand Spinners' conference and <a href="https://fleecefestival.com/" target="_blank">Woolstock</a> while November and December take us into holiday sales and exhibitions.<br />
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<b>I'm looking forward to a faster pace and a little bustle as the weather turns colder,</b> but it also makes me so grateful to have had this long summer of amazing skies with my head lost in the clouds.<br />
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<b>Wishing you loads and loads of harvest cozy!</b><br />
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<b>Kathy</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer sunrise over Stratford, ON.</td></tr>
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<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-4888858339807279172019-04-26T06:56:00.000-07:002019-04-29T03:51:40.164-07:00August on the Bank of the St. Lawrence (or maybe just Estuary) - A Story<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path from our campsite to the open air of the river bank was a gauntlet of apparently starving mosquitoes.</td></tr>
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<b>Coming home from a trip is one of my favourite parts. </b>I don't mean actually arriving home, although I do love coming home to my own kitchen. I mean the return part of the journey - the movement back to point A.<br />
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<b>Traditionally, this is when Doug and I discuss next steps</b> in our shared lives. We make plans. After escaping the day to day for a bit, we use this time of returning to assimilate our experiences and view the things we left at home with a fresh perspective.<br />
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<b>Maybe the journey away looks outward and the journey home looks inward?</b><br />
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<b>The surreal experience that inspired my current body of work in progress,</b> tentatively titled 'Estuary', occurred on a journey home. I had spent a month at an artist residency in New Brunswick. It had been both invigorating and challenging in the way that life altering events are. I was stuffed full of the seeds of ideas yet to be identified but I was also completely drained.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Later, I learned the word <span style="text-align: start;">'estuary'<span style="font-family: inherit;">- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments. </span></span></span></td></tr>
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<b>We were driving along the south bank of the St. Lawrence river</b> through the tail end of an exhausting heat wave. Our plans for the night were vague and we listlessly followed a rambling road through the hazy, idyllic Quebec country side, hoping a solution would present itself. A sign for a campground appeared on the right and we pulled in with relief.<br />
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<b>Our campsite had a view of the St. Lawrence, kind of, </b>and we did not mind at first that we had to park on the road and lug the gear along a path to the clearing. Inside the trees, however, we were immediately swarmed by what surely must have been thousands of aggressive mosquitoes. We dropped the packs and ran back to the car to armour limbs and douse ourselves in repellent. Thus fortified, we made a second assault, moving quickly and this time getting the tent unrolled before we were again forced to retreat.<br />
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<b>We were saved from certain death </b>by a fire ring and table at the river's edge<b> </b>which was then an expanse of vibrant grasses and smooth silver water sitting low under gloomy, humid cloud cover.<b> </b>We decided to stay there for as long as possible, only venturing into the mosquito infested pit known as our campsite when ready for sleep.<br />
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<b>This is how it came to pass that I spent hours sitting at the edge of the great St. Lawrence river </b>watching the water slowly, slowly swell with the ocean's tide.<br />
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Later, I learned the word <b>'estuary'<span style="font-family: inherit;">- </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.<span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments. In hindsight, I draw a parallel between my depleted state rife with the beginning of ideas and this first view of the St. Lawrence estuary that first day of August.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Overheated, drained of blood and emptied of thought, </b></span><span style="background-color: white;">I drooped on a picnic table for an embarrassingly long time before it occurred to me that we had a scored a river side view of sunset over the St. Lawrence. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>At 16:30:26</b> I was finally moved by the beauty in front of me (and possibly revived by the great local brew) to take a photo. And then the light changed and I was moved to take another. Five minutes later I realized that some of the muddy humps in the distance had become islands, so the water must be rising and that made the ever changing vista all the more poignant.</span><br />
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<b>Can you claim to be present in the moment when you're taking photos? </b>It felt like it. I think the lens gave my weary brain an excuse to be still, to look and see. Over a span of four hours, I took hundreds of photographs, feeling each time that that was enough, that I would put the phone away for good. Then a cloud shift would change the light or the rising river formed new reflective pools and I'd reach for it again.<br />
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<b>I had no plan at all. </b>This was pure<b> </b>recuperative therapy but when we did arrive home and I reviewed the shots from that evening an idea for a body of work began to form.<br />
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<b>Estuary (or maybe An Evening on the Bank of the St. Lawrence) is about sitting still and looking.</b> It is about being empty and being filled. Breathing in and breathing out. It is about the awesome beauty in the painted sky right now - and now - and now - and again now and about sitting still to see it. Every moment is a unique drop in a (you guessed it!) river of eternal same. It is also about Monet's haystacks and about light.<br />
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<b>If you're still reading, thank you! </b>Writing this post has helped me to clarify some ideas and reflect on what lies beyond the surface of this new work. You can watch as the work unfolds on Instagram @kathywhiteart or on the home page of <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/">www.kathywhiteart.com</a>.<br />
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<b>Would you like to learn more about this medium and give it a try yourself? </b>Or maybe you are looking for a mother's day treat for yourself or someone else?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>May 11, 2019 - Wool Painted Hearts!</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal;">Back by popular demand! Kathy White returns just in time for Mother’s Day with a beautiful wool</span></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-spacing: normal;">painted heart project. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2px; word-spacing: normal;">During this workshop, fibre artist Kathy White teaches her method of applying wool yarn to beeswax covered boards to create a ‘wool painting’. Participants receive everything they need to create and take home their own unique heart shaped wool painting. All levels of experience welcome. Make a heart for your Mom or treat her to a creative afternoon out, either way it’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift! </span></i></div>
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<b>Until next time, </b>may you be revitalized when you are tired, replenished when you are low, and filled with the waters of creativity when you thought they were gone.<br />
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<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-88908134293172577212019-03-26T10:09:00.001-07:002019-03-26T10:09:42.534-07:00Textile Museum of Canada, Workshops, and Dyeing Naturally!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What's on my work table - Spring 2019. Those are yarns I dyed myself with plant materials gathered and prepared during the 2018 natural dyeing weekend with the Fashion Arts and Creative Textiles Studio in Blyth, ON.</td></tr>
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<b>Greetings from Stratford, </b>where I spent our icy winter holed up with my pirates' treasure of bright fabrics, wool, and beeswax, happily creating while the weather raged. I have been playing with shapes and composition as well as experimenting with layering paint and fabrics with the beeswax for depth. Small pieces are perfect for trying stuff out and each one can become a unique, miniature work of art.<br />
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<br /><b>Among the many valuable lessons I learned during my 2018 residency</b> at <a href="https://www.kingsbraegarden.com/" target="_blank">Kingsbrae Gardens, NB</a> is the potential for a mutually supportive relationship between an artist and her local community. One of my goals for 2019 is to interact with and get to know more of the communities around me. So you will see me out and about more this year at local markets such as the <a href="https://www.goderichmakers.ca/makers-market.html" target="_blank">Goderich Makers Market</a> coming up on April 6th at <a href="http://www.squarebrewco.com/" target="_blank">Square Brew</a>! </div>
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<b>One of our highlights so far this year </b>is to have both our yarn painting kits and my Harrison Park Series accepted for sale in the <a href="https://secure.textilemuseum.ca/" target="_blank">Textile Museum of Canada's shop</a>. The shop's director, June Lee, is wonderfully welcoming and helpful and I am looking forward to knowing the museum better. Doug is really the force behind this one and I have him to thank for making it happen. Thanks, sweetheart, you are the best!</div>
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<b>I had a nibble at botanical dying last summer </b>when I took a weekend workshop through the <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">Fashion Arts and Creative Textiles Studio</a> in Blyth, ON and now I am hooked. I love the subdued colours and suspect this might be a game changer for my work. Especially of interest are natural dye materials that do not require a mordant. Mom, the master gardener, is growing some woad this year and I am collecting tools to start dyeing this summer. Onion skins and avocado seeds are also on my radar.</div>
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<b>Workshops are another way I can reach out to my community </b>and there are lots planned and even more on the way. <a href="https://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/workshops_20.html" target="_blank">Look here for details and to register.</a></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">June 15 - </span><a href="https://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/workshops_20.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0096b4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Butterflies & Blooms Garden Inspired Yarn Painting,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #575757; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON</span></b></div>
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<b>October 19 - Beeswax and Yarn Painting Make-Along, <a href="https://ohs.on.ca/2019-ohs-conference/" style="color: #0096b4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ontario Hand Spinners Conference,</a> Woodstock, ON</b></div>
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<b>Finally, to any one still reading - thank you!</b> It is your support and interest that keeps me going and I know it. To see my creations as I work on them, follow me on Instagram as <b>@kathywhiteart</b>. Don't have an Instagram account? You can see my posts on the home page of my website at <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/">www.kathywhiteart.com</a>. </div>
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Happy Spring! May your bulbs sprout, your garden grow, and your fibre projects flow like water. 💙</div>
<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-37353713141351416442018-11-23T07:11:00.002-08:002018-11-23T07:11:53.462-08:00Buy Locally Handmade For The Holidays<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's holiday sales season and I am gearing up for the <b>Shakespeare Sip & Shop tomorrow</b>! Before I share the details, I wanted to give you some motivation for choosing to distribute your hard earned dollars in your own community this year.</div>
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Every time you purchase a gift this holiday, your money will support and reinforce a method of making, distributing and purchasing a product. If you buy from a chain store or online retailer, not only are you essentially voting for the continuation of that system, but most if not all of your money will be leaving the community in which you live. Not to mention the environmental impact of manufacturing, shipping, storing, and packaging.</div>
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When you purchase an item that has been locally handmade, you are directly supporting a member of your community and your money stays in circulation in your own area. Many makers are also eco-conscious and their products are healthier for you and the planet. And the gifts you give will be truly one of a kind treasures.</div>
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This holiday season, vote to support the creative members of your own home town and buy locally handmade!</div>
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My holiday sales season kicks off tomorrow at the Shakespeare Sip & Shop. As happy as I am to be a first time vendor at the show, I can't wait to try some of Harry Ten Shilling's tea and scones! Mmmm. Free admission, free parking, and free swag bags for 25 lucky people. See you there?</div>
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Next weekend, I'll be in the Blyth Memorial Community Hall for the indoor Artisan Night Market on Friday November 30th, 6 - 11 pm. I'll be there again on Saturday, Dec 1 & Sunday, Dec 2 for <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">FACTS</a>' Holiday Handcrafting Weekend - free community craft activities, demonstrations and sales on Saturday and a fabulous workshop on Sunday that lets you do the making! More info <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Finally, I am returning to the fascinating Factory 163 in Stratford, ON for the <a href="https://www.starttheholidays.com/" target="_blank">St(Art) the Holidays Art Show & Sale</a> on December 8th & 9th. Last year's show was a tremendous success and, more importantly, a lot of fun. Live music, fabulous coffee by Revel, a wine bar, and amazing, original arts and crafts. Definitely worth marking on your calendar!</div>
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Where ever you live, please think about the kind of world you're supporting when you make your holiday purchases this year and see if you can send a little love and support to your local makers. Your own world will be better for it!</div>
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<b>Don't miss out </b>on our new workshop taking place in Blyth, ON this Saturday! Learn to make your own original work of art using beeswax and wool. This time we'll also talk about combining different weights of wool to really make your image pop.<br />
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<b>Register at <a href="http://www.factsblyth.ca/">www.factsblyth.ca</a>.</b> Space is limited, so act fast.<br />
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<b>Can't wait to see you there</b> and play with aromatic beeswax and squishy wool.<br />
<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-47635043695554951612018-09-25T12:47:00.001-07:002018-09-25T12:47:40.332-07:00New Workshop Date in Blyth!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>This morning</b> <b>I woke to the fragrant scent of wood smoke</b> mixed with the chilly, oxygen charged air that follows a rain storm. At last, it is autumn and I'm feeling reinvigorated and ready to jump back in the game. The fibre art game, that is.<br />
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<b>My experience as an artist in residence </b>with the <a href="http://www.kingsbraegarden.com/kira/" target="_blank">Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts</a> (KIRA) was unspeakably inspiring - truly a once in a lifetime opportunity - and it has taken me a few months to reorient myself and figure out where to go from here.<br />
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<b>One of my priorities after returning to Ontario</b> was to follow up on a lead about a dyer's garden that someone in Blyth was starting and I am so happy that I followed my gut on this one. It turns out that 'someone' is Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston, a costume designer, teacher, business owner, and fibre arts school visionary.<br />
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<b>Jennifer is the force</b> <b>behind the <a href="https://factsblyth.ca/" target="_blank">Fashion Arts & Creative Textiles Studio</a></b> as well as the creator and founder of <a href="https://www.pickaposie.ca/" target="_blank">Pick a Posie Costume Company</a>. She is wonderfully connected and extremely knowledgeable about all things fibre and I am so excited to be teaming up with her to finally - FINALLY! - offer a course in the Blyth/Goderich area.<br />
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<b>I learned so much during my residency</b> in St. Andrews, NB and reconnected with the beauty of pure Canadian <a href="https://www.briggsandlittle.com/" target="_blank">Briggs and Little</a> wool and I'm going to bring all of that new learning and enthusiasm with me to the workshop! We'll try out some new techniques and broaden our creative horizons.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingsbrae Mugo Pine, Canadian Briggs & Little wool, Peruvian wool, & Beeswax on Wood Panel, 9" x 12 " x 1"</td></tr>
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<b>I'd love to see you at the Blyth workshop</b> hosted by FACTS. Jennifer has created great energy and momentum around the studio and I cannot say enough good things about the recent two day natural dying workshop I enjoyed as a participant. An entire weekend outside learning how to turn plants and flowers into natural wool dyes - I was in heaven and have developed a new obsession with woad.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unexpectedly vibrant colours - all from plants.</td></tr>
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<b>I have LOTS of glitzy upcoming holiday events to share with you,</b> but we'll save those for another day. Its time to dig out my wool sweaters and head outside to watch the leaves fall.<br />
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<b>Oh, before I forget - I'm finally on Instagram!</b> (I know, I know - a little late.) You can follow what I'm up to and see my most recent work at @kathywhiteart.<br />
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<b>Happy Autumn!</b><br />
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It is difficult to know where to begin in describing the welcome I have received to the <a href="http://www.kingsbraegarden.com/kira-2/" target="_blank">Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts</a> in St. Andrews, NB, along with four other very talented artists from around the globe. Nothing could have prepared me for the warmth of the people involved and the effort they have put into making our time here a true opportunity to pursue artistic creation and development.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My very first dedicated solo studio space and what a space to start with!</td></tr>
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The residency is just one of the latest projects planned and implemented by the incredible philanthropist Mrs. Lucinda Flemer, whose family used the house as a summer home in her childhood. You can learn more about Kingsbrae Gardens and Mrs. Flemer in this video, The Giving Garden. I highly recommend it for anyone who is feeling cynical about modern human nature.<br />
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The gardens are hugely inspirational, especially in the early morning, which is my favourite time to wander through them and snap photos of anything that is interesting. Right now, my imagination is captivated by the variety of textures you can find, even in the same plant.<br />
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My fellow artists in residence are the best of people and all hugely and uniquely talented. Here are their websites, which are well worth a look.<br />
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<a href="http://jacquisymons.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jacqui Symons</a><br />
<a href="http://www.annemagratten.com/" target="_blank">Anne Magratten</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cheminart.com/" target="_blank">Che Min Hsiao</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Jeremy-Thomas-Gilmer-802311419862514/" target="_blank">Jeremy Gilmer</a><br />
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There is so much beauty here and also so much bonhomie and I have so very, very much I want to share with you and reflect in my work. But it will have to wait until I'm back home, because right now I am far too busy living it!<br />
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For now, let me just say that I feel so blessed to be here, experiencing this.<br />
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I hope that you too are experiencing a wonderful new opportunity this summer.<br />
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Happy July!<br />
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KathyKathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-71770187978864799062018-07-02T02:49:00.000-07:002018-07-02T02:49:21.569-07:00Early Morning in St. Andrews, New Brunswick<br />
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I am so honoured and excited to be taking part in the <a href="http://www.kingsbraegarden.com/" target="_blank">Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts</a> in St. Andrews, NB. For the month of July, I will be one of five artists living on the grounds of the incredible Kingsbrae Gardens and working out of a studio there, inspired by everything this breathtaking area has to offer.<br />
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Yesterday, after a scenic mountain journey from Quebec through Maine, we arrived in Sr. Andrews to find the town hopping with Canada Day celebrations. These guys do it up right and the waterfront was packed with smiling faces decked out in red and white.<br />
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Last night we stayed at the <a href="http://www.huntsmanmarine.ca/" target="_blank">Huntsman Marine Institute</a>, which gave us a perfect view of the Canada Day fireworks display. As we waited for them to begin, we saw a family of deer cross the Algonquin golf course with young fawns playing tag, barely visible in the evening light.<br />
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This morning, I was far too excited to sleep though the dawn chorus and snuck outside to witness my first maritime sunrise.<br />
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Tomorrow is the first day of the residency and I can't wait. More to come!<br />
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PS - I have to thank all of the wonderful volunteers at the <a href="https://blythfestival.com/blyth-festival-art-gallery/" target="_blank">Blyth Festival Art Gallery</a> one more time for making the opening night of <i>Every Fibre of My Being</i> such a success.<br />
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The people I spoke to were very kind and truly engaged in the arts. Carl and <a href="http://www.kellyedstevenson.ca/#1" target="_blank">Kelly Stevenson</a> provided excellent curation and emotional support for the opening. Thanks guys!<br />
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And a special thanks to Rob and Cora Tetu for whipping up a delicious last minute dinner when we had to evacuate the planned restaurant due to a fire scare. Truly an adventurous evening and one I will never forget. Thanks to everyone involved!<br />
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I am so excited to share with you the invitation for my soon to be open solo exhibition titled <i>'Every Fibre of My Being'</i> held at the <a href="https://blythfestival.com/blyth-festival-art-gallery/" target="_blank">Bainton Gallery</a> of the Blyth Festival in Blyth, ON.<br />
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The plans for this show were put in place over a year ago when I met with representatives from the gallery at the Silo Weavers' in St. Jacobs to show examples of my work. Thanks, Elsa!<br />
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When they informed me that my work would be used to open the festival for the 2018 season, I could not have been more pleased.<br />
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This show will feature my newest body of work called '<i>Making Waves</i>' where I explore the impact of evaluating each completed piece and using the results to inform the next while limiting myself to the subject of waves. This has been a fascinating process for me and I believe the results show up in the art!<br />
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'<i>Making Waves</i>' is as much about process as it is about any individual piece of art and, seen all together, I think they create a pretty interesting exhibition.<br />
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My '<i>Harrison Park Series</i>' is also included in the show as well as several signature pieces, making this a true representation of my work to present, something I haven't seen collected in this manner before.<br />
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The title '<i>Every Fibre of My Being</i>' represents the large scope of this show and the reflection of my work in all of the various iterations, including some of the vintage embroidery floss work.<br />
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'<i>Every Fibre of My Being</i>' opens at 6 pm on June 22, 2018 at the Bainton Gallery in the Blyth Festival building, Blyth, ON. I'd love to see you there!<br />
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I would also like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to the Bainton Gallery and the members that I have worked with so far. It is an honour to have my work shown in this mecca of rural creativity that is very much in line with my own artistic practice. Thanks to everyone, especially Carl and Rob, whose efforts have helped bring the show to fruition!<br />
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<b>Happy Spring!</b> I love this time of year, don't you? This morning I heard a red-winged blackbird, one of my favourites.</div>
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<b>2018 bolted out of the gate </b>and I haven't had the opportunity to update you on developments. There's lots to be excited about and, if you follow the fibre arts community, you've probably noticed that fibre art is exploding right now. Good news all round.</div>
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<b>The first event on my calendar this year is </b><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/shows/shows.htm#anchor2e3595c7" target="_blank">Collected Threads</a>, </i>a retrospective exhibition of the various contemporary fibre artists hosted by Elsa Elliott in the St. Jacobs Village Silos. For many years, Elsa has promoted a contemporary fibre artist in tandem with the <a href="https://stjacobs.com/Quilt-Fibre-Arts-Events.htm" target="_blank">Waterloo Region's Quilt and Fibre Art Festival</a> through her iconic store The Silo Weavers which closed its doors last year. Collected Threads will feature a past and current work from 12 of the previous guest artists, including me. </div>
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<b>Event: Collected Threads</b></div>
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<b>When: May 22 - 26, 2018</b></div>
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<b>Next, I am thrilled to announced that I am the opening artist in the <a href="https://blythfestival.com/blyth-festival-art-gallery/" target="_blank">Blyth Festival Art Gallery</a> for the 2018 Blyth Festival season! </b>I am so excited about this and have a new body of work to show for the first time that is really something new! More on that soon.</div>
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<b>Event: Every Fibre Of My Being, Solo exhibition</b></div>
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<b>Place: Blyth Festival Art Gallery, Blyth, ON</b></div>
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<b>When: June 22 - July 16, 2018</b></div>
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<b>Finally, just when I thought I used up all my exclamation marks, (drum roll please) I have been selected as one of five artists granted the <a href="http://www.kingsbraegarden.com/kira-2/" target="_blank">Kingsbrae International Artist Residency for the Arts</a>! (!!!) </b>This is an amazing opportunity to spend a month living on 20 acres of award winning gardens in beautiful St. Andrews, New Brunswick, focused on creating art. Still having a hard time believing this one is real. </div>
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<b>So - lots going on and it is all extraordinarily interesting. </b>I am having a blast right now and learning so much as I go. </div>
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<b>Hope to see you out and about this spring and summer. </b>Maybe at a workshop? Hmm - more on that another day.</div>
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<b>Enjoy the sunshine and plant some seeds!</b></div>
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<b>Looking for a reason to see beautiful Stratford decked out for the holidays?</b> The seventh annual <a href="http://www.starttheholidays.com/" target="_blank">St(art) the Holidays</a> is coming up on <b>December 9th & 10th</b> at <a href="http://www.factory163.com/view.php?public/Home" target="_blank">Factory 163</a>, a 1903 furniture manufactory that has been renovated into artist studios and creative space. The show features locally crafted artwork and handmade gifts, all made by local Perth county artists. Hear live music by local musicians while enjoying the <a href="http://revelstratford.ca/" target="_blank">Revel</a> caffe's direct trade coffee or sip some wine from the charity bar supporting <a href="http://www.palstratford.org/about.html" target="_blank">PAL Stratford</a>.</div>
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Most exciting of all is the fact that we will be there this year!</div>
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Full disclosure - this is my first show and sale of this kind and I am having the time of my life. After a year of 'forced march to meet the deadline' kind of thinking, hand stitching these delicate little ornaments is playful. This is an opportunity to stretch some creative muscles that have been neglected.</div>
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I am grateful to talented fibre artist, friend and mentor, <a href="https://helenb.ca/home-page" target="_blank">Helen Benninger</a>, for recommending St(art) The Holidays to me, for generously sharing her knowledge and pirate's trove of sumptuous materials, and also for drawing my attention back to mandalas. The mandala/snowflake overlap has got my brain's synapses firing so fast that my hands can't keep up.</div>
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We have also put together a new bird kit design in honour of winter. This is an easy way to try your hand at painting with beeswax and wool and is also a unique gift for the fibre enthusiasts in your life. The kits leave lots of room for your own creativity and include everything needed to create a little work of art. Can't make it to the sale to buy kits? Get in touch <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Catching up on other news, the <a href="http://www.fleecefestival.com/" target="_blank">Woodstock Fleece Festival</a> was one of the best events of this kind in which I have participated. The festival demonstrates all aspects of wool - from sheep to finished projects. We had a record turn out for the yarn painting workshop and marveled at the skill level of attendees.</div>
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Here is Kerry's artistic finished piece. Thanks for sending it, Kerry!</div>
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Finally, the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga has extended my solo display, <i>Following the Thread</i>, until January. Woo hoo!</div>
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There's been a lot of talk about flow (or Flow or FLOW) around here lately. While I may not be able to define it, I can certainly recognize it as the hours fly by and I follow ideas that branch into other ideas that branch into yet others and I see that I could not possibly pursue them all in one lifetime.</div>
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Fragrant wood smoke, sweet apples, and trees aflame with colour. Couples kicking up dry leaves, holding hands and strolling along in warm WOOL sweaters.<br />
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That's right, folks. It is wool season. A time for wraps, scarves, hats, gloves, and gorgeous, stranded Fair Isle and Scandinavian patterns.<br />
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Wool. How I love you!<br />
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What better way to celebrate the beginning of wool season than <a href="http://www.fleecefestival.com/" target="_blank">The Woodstock Fleece Festival</a>? Email correspondent, Hayley, tells me it is called 'Woolstock' by those in the know.<br />
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Woolstock!! Like Woodstock but for wool. It's embarrassing how excited I am by that.<br />
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So, yeah, I'll be at Woolstock this Saturday offering a workshop on my yarn painting techniques starting at 2 pm. The class is almost full, so <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yarn-painting-workshop-creating-natural-works-of-art-with-beeswax-wool-tickets-34656181572" target="_blank">register now</a> if you want to come.<br />
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Did I mention there will be sheep?! And yarn. Lots and lots of yarn.<br />
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In other news, the end of August brought me up to date with meeting my solo show deadlines as I dropped the pieces off at the Mississauga <a href="http://www.livingartscentre.ca/" target="_blank">Living Arts Centre</a> for <i>Following The Thread</i>, a sampling of my work on display from September 1 to October 31.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Sometimes in my art practice, I am nudged in directions that I didn’t anticipate. An idea forms and, almost simultaneously, an emotional response is felt. Excitement, curiosity, and certainty can be there, but so can resistance, impatience, and fear.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Disturbed by the disparity between my approach to learning to paint and learning to knit (judgemental impatience versus tolerant beginner’s mind), I followed a thread of thought that led me to create works of art using beeswax and wool.</i></span></div>
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Okay, so maybe I messed up the thread metaphor in there, but the sentiment is real.<br />
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Strand by strand, we spin a stronger <b>yarn </b> - OMG, how could I not have seen the spinning yarn metaphor before now? Okay - primary goal for Woolstock - learn to spin.<br />
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Many of you already know about the current exhibition of my work in the Rotunda Gallery of Kitchener City Hall titled <i>Transcending: Works in Wool and Wax. </i>The exhibition highlights a series of pieces created in response to the breathtaking scenery around Harrison Park and Inglis Falls in Owen Sound, ON.</div>
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I am writing to let you know that I will be at the exhibition to talk about the work, answer questions, and demonstrate a little of my process on <b>Tuesday, August 22nd</b> from <b>1:30 - 3:30 pm</b>.</div>
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Working in wool and wax raises a lot of questions and I love sharing the techniques used and watching reactions when people realize that, yes, that artwork is made with wool.</div>
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The count down is on. Just twelve days before <i>Transcending: Works in Wool and Wax </i>is mounted.<br />
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I received the final copy of the exhibition invite this week and it brought home to me the reality of the approaching completion of a project that has come to feel endless over the year that I have worked on it. Don't get me wrong. It has been a powerful experience and I have learned a lot about what it means to commit yourself to a long term project. I am also really excited to explore some of the new ideas that have been bottlenecking while I worked on this series.<br />
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Yesterday, I gathered all of the pieces to photograph them and get them ready for hanging. It was the first time I had looked at the completed pieces together and I was surprised at the cohesion of the group. Ideas, colours, and yarns repeat themselves through the pieces in ways I was not consciously aware of before they were all finished.<br />
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<i>Transcending: Works in Wool and Wax </i>will be in the <a href="https://www.kitchener.ca/en/livinginkitchener/RotundaGallery.asp" target="_blank">Rotunda Gallery</a> in Kitchener City Hall from August 3 to August 30, 2017. If you go see it, get in touch and let me know what you think!<br />
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Here is a sneak preview of the Artist Statement for the exhibition.<br />
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<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-21456721076576506302017-06-27T08:36:00.000-07:002017-06-27T08:36:23.281-07:00Catching Up with Summer - Fleece Festival & August Solo Exhibition<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Course registration is open for the <a href="http://www.fleecefestival.com/workshops-2017.html" target="_blank">Woodstock Fleece Festival 2017</a> and we are so excited to be offering a workshop this year called<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yarn-painting-workshop-creating-natural-works-of-art-with-beeswax-wool-tickets-34656181572" target="_blank"> Yarn Painting - Creating Natural Works of Art with Beeswax and Wool</a>. The festival is on October 14th at the Woodstock Fair Grounds and features all things fleece from shearing to weaving. What a great fall adventure!<br />
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With August in view, I am putting the final touches on The Harrison Park series to be shown in my first 'official' solo exhibition titled <i>Transcending - Works in Wool and Wax</i>, being mounted in the <a href="https://www.kitchener.ca/en/livinginkitchener/RotundaGallery.asp" target="_blank">Rotunda Gallery</a> in Kitchener City Hall for the month of August.<br />
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It feels like I have been working on this series<i> forever</i>, and it has been almost a full year. I have learned a lot about taking on a long term commitment like this, including the fact that I will get bored and try to rebel against myself! It is interesting to be both child and parent and coax yourself to keep on track towards a deadline. I also learned that I seriously underestimate the amount of time it will take to complete a piece because I keep forgetting about the dreaded unforeseen circumstance (aka life.) <br />
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Overall, however, this has been a valuable experience in so many ways and I am pleased with the pieces that have resulted from it. I am also bursting with new ideas that have piled up in my sketchbook waiting for attention. Soon, my pretties, soon.<br />
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We had a fantastic time, as usual, at the yarn painting workshop at the St. Jacobs Mennonite Church during the Waterloo Region and Beyond! Quilt and Fibre Art Festival this year. I appreciate so much the work of the committee members to organize the workshops and create a magnificent display of quilts in the church. Our workshop discussions were colourful and the group became my best spokespeople by the end!<br />
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Special thanks to Kate, who not only sent me an image of her evocative finished piece 'Emergence', but also was kind enough to gift me an extra heating gun for my artistic pursuits. Thank you, Kate!<br />
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Also a special hello to Amelia, who impressed us all with her humour and independence, keeping her 80 plus years young and still trying new things.<br />
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Happy summer, folks, and keeping Amelia's adventurous spirit in mind, I hope this summer finds you trying something new!Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-83156485994043148262017-05-23T12:13:00.000-07:002017-05-23T12:13:35.063-07:00Attention Last Minute Shoppers...St. Jacobs Quilt and Fibre Art Festival Starts Today!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin In The Apple Tree, 8" x 8" x 1.5", Vintage Embroidery Floss, Tempra Paint, and Beeswax on Wood Panel</td></tr>
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So my Spring plan to get fit resulted in a sexy case of bursitis and I've spent the last two weeks with my feet elevated. I made great use of the couch time by whining piteously whenever Doug walked through the room.<br />
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Poor guy. I am not a tolerant invalid.<br />
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The upside is that I couldn't work on my large piece, which requires standing, so I had a chance to follow through on some ideas for small pieces that I had been storing up.<br />
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Do you remember my initial idea for a milkweed piece when <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2015/11/fiatluxfiber-gun-plain-pygoras.html" target="_blank">Nan Nichols from Gun Plain Pygoras sent me a sampling of her luxurious yarns</a>? Okay, it was almost two years ago, but I finally did it!<br />
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I used <i>Asclepius </i>as an opportunity to try out a new idea. Before coating the panel with beeswax, I painted a winter sky on the wood and then left parts of it exposed when I added the milkweed image. The effect is very three dimensional and moody. The pygora yarn is so light and flossy, it was like working with real milkweed seeds.<br />
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Next, I finished a piece I've had on the back burner for awhile. <i>Garden In Blue</i> is the follow up piece to <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2016/07/grandmas-garden.html" target="_blank">Grandma's Garden</a>, working on the same idea of sandwiching a layer of fabric in the beeswax and playing with the pattern. I tried out a different colour scheme and worked the design over the edges onto the painted sides a bit more.<br />
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Finally, I tried out an idea for my upcoming display at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga this September. With a working title of <i>Native Exotics</i>, I want to create pieces that depict native flora and fauna while exploring some textile traditions, such as Indian tree of life motifs and the designs of William Morris. </div>
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I am finally back on my feet again, just in time for this year's <a href="https://stjacobs.com/Quilt-Fibre-Arts-Events.htm" target="_blank">Waterloo Region and Beyond Quilt and Fibre Art Festival</a>. It's on from today until Saturday and I'll be hosting a <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2017/04/new-expanded-workshop-quilt-and-fibre.html" target="_blank">yarn painting workshop on Thursday</a> in St. Jacobs, which is always a great experience. There's space still available, so register now or drop by on Thursday.</div>
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This year's festival also marks the sad closing of <a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/" target="_blank">The Silo Weavers</a>, a St. Jacobs icon and one of my favourite textile stores. Elsa Brigden-Elliot, the weaver behind the Silo Weavers, is retiring from the store (but not from weaving!) and May 31st marks the last day. Elsa is a lovely person who has opened many doors for me. I will miss having my work for sale at the Silo Weavers, but look forward to seeing what she does with her time freed up!</div>
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Be sure to stop by The Silo Weavers during the festival to wish Elsa well and check out the store closing deals. My art work and cards are all on sale until the end of the month.</div>
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<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-69080233521398312862017-04-21T06:13:00.002-07:002017-04-21T06:22:18.990-07:00Kits - You Asked For It!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finally did it. Yarn Painting Kits available!</td></tr>
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Brace yourself. I am about to say something shocking. Here it is:<br />
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I dislike group work.<br />
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Please don't hate me. I know this is an unpopular sentiment in the bastion days of the multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-generational, and multi-species Super Team.<br />
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I can't help it. I am, and have always been, an introverted loner prone to hermit-like behaviour and quite happy that way so please go away now and stop knocking on my turtle shell.<br />
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BUT...<br />
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Last week, watching my husband apply beeswax to canvas panels more smoothly than I had managed in ten plus years of practice, I confessed that I am starting to see the benefits of applying multiple minds to a subject.<br />
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You would think I'd be able to settle gracefully into aging without having to learn new things, but apparently not. Sheesh.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kit contents - Instructions, application tool, prewaxed and stamped board, and a lovely selection of wool yarns. Different colours in each kit!</td></tr>
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So here's another one.<br />
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You guys asked me for kits. At <a href="https://vogueknittinglive.com/portal" target="_blank">Vogue Knitting Live!</a>, you asked me for kits. At the <a href="http://stjacobs.com/Quilt-Fibre-Arts-Events.htm" target="_blank">Waterloo Region and Beyond Quilt & Fibre Art Festival,</a> you asked me for kits. In my <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/workshops.html" target="_blank">summer workshops</a>, you asked me for kits.<br />
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"Kits?" I thought. "That's a great idea. But I'm busy making art. I don't have time now."<br />
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Doug, however, saw the genius in this and decide to jump in and make it happen. So he did and did and did, and between your great idea and his large effort, these kits are a triumph of group work.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original Sunset design in the making.</td></tr>
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The sunset design is a tribute to Doug, modeled on his first workshop piece made almost a year ago. It is a simple design that offers a little guidance but allows for big creativity and everybody's version will be unique.<br />
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The kits are just $20 each and are available now at the <a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/" target="_blank">Silo Weavers</a>. I will also have some at my <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2017/04/new-expanded-workshop-quilt-and-fibre.html" target="_blank">workshop in St. Jacobs</a> or, if you're interested in ordering some online, <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">email me</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kitty's Sunset - What I created with a Sunset Kit.</td></tr>
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We are excited to see what you make with the kits. Send us a photo of your completed Sunset Kit and we will post it.<br />
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Thanks, Doug, and thank you for making this happen!<br />
<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-64388354814579293862017-04-03T08:31:00.000-07:002017-04-03T08:47:51.161-07:00New Expanded Workshop! Quilt and Fibre Art Festival, Waterloo Region and Beyond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am very happy to be included in the 2017 <a href="http://stjacobs.com/Quilt-Fibre-Arts-Events.htm" target="_blank">Waterloo Region and Beyond's Quilt and Fibre Art Festival </a>taking place May 23rd to 27th this year.<br />
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Last year's workshop was a lot of fun and I'm offering a new, expanded version this year with more advanced techniques in the morning for those of you who want an in-depth understanding of my process.<br />
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Here's the info below. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.<br />
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See you soon and Happy Spring!<br />
Kathy<br />
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PS - From now until the end of May, my work is 10% off at <a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/" target="_blank">The SiloWeavers</a>!<br />
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Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-41555480310049677662017-02-06T05:59:00.000-08:002017-02-06T05:59:18.674-08:00Art Gallery of Mississauga Art CritIt is extremely exciting (and a bit terrifying) to be one of 12 artist selected to take part in the <a href="http://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/index.html" target="_blank">Art Gallery of Mississauga's</a> upcoming Art Crit. What a fabulous opportunity to receive professional feedback on my work at a perfect time to benefit phase 2 of my Harrison park series!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bone Trees, Peruvian Wool and Beeswax on Birch Panel, 12 x 12 x 1.5</td></tr>
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I finished <i>Bone Trees</i>, the fifth of the square foot pieces in late November. It is inspired by the view from Inglis Falls and traces the path of the Sydenham River through the forest to Georgian Bay. I took a risk using the pink tones, hoping to convey the mood of this view on a brilliant day in July.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Escarpment Ferns, Peruvian Wool and Beeswax on Birch Panel, 12 x 12 x 1.5</td></tr>
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<i>Escarpment Ferns </i>was finished in January, meaning that the phase 1 goal of creating 6 square foot pieces is complete!<br />
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Phase 2 of working at least 4 of the square foot pieces into larger 3 foot x 3 foot images is underway, which is what makes the AGM Art Crit such great timing. I look forward to receiving some constructive criticism that I can employ to make the large pieces even better.<br />
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The AGM describes the event as follows:<br />
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<i>A forum for artists at any stage of their career, working in any medium, to put forth a body of work,
completed or development, for critique, discussion and feedback by artist peers and members of the arts
community... participating artists are only asked to be open to (and interested in)
considering reactions to their work by the group, which will always be done in a supportive, constructive and
casual environment, but could at the same time be challenging.</i><br />
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New opportunity is often scary and I owe the fact that I even applied for the Art Crit to a 10 day 'Train the Brave' challenge by <a href="https://margiewarrell.com/" target="_blank">Margie Warrell</a> that I followed in the new year. Just submitting the application got my heart pounding a little bit.<br />
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My deadline for completion of the series is August, when I will be mounting the finished products as a solo show at the Rotunda Gallery in Kitchener City Hall.<br />
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Let's see what happens next!Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-6277803550815052132016-12-28T08:49:00.000-08:002017-10-23T07:32:54.453-07:00Deep Roots Exhibition - Mississauga Living Arts Centre<br />
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Exciting news! <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2016/10/the-buzzard-tree-solo-exhibitions-and.html" target="_blank"><i>The Buzzard Tree</i></a> has been selected as part of <i><a href="http://www.livingartscentre.ca/gallery/deep-roots" target="_blank">Deep Roots</a>, </i>an exhibition taking place at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Artists from across Ontario were invited to submit works for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deep Roots</em>, which reflect Ontario’s geography, history, and cultural identity. This exhibition presents diverse perspectives, including examinations of the land and the urban, industrialized environment, the experiences of immigrants, and personal reflections on one’s life and environment. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deep Roots</em> is part of the Living Arts Centre’s programs to celebrate Canada and Ontario’s 150<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>anniversary in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Artists</strong>: Monica Bujas, Jennifer Akkermans, Nicholas Crombach, Erna de Vries, Brad Emsley, Caroline Ji, Michaela Lucio, Alan McCord, Moira Ness, Zhan Ni Li, Lois Schklar, Steven Whalley, Kathy White, Alix Voz</span></div>
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It's a pleasure to be part of this exhibition. What a great way to kick off a new year!</div>
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May your New Year celebrations be full of pleasant surprises too.</div>
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Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-10260905580361323502016-11-23T07:06:00.000-08:002016-11-23T07:07:46.674-08:00"We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a secret stash of yarn. Not my main stash that I work with and not even my secondary stash that I save for special projects, but a super 'most-secret-ever!' luxury stash that I don't even tell myself about.<br />
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It lives in a paper Trader Joe's bag in the darkest corner of the yarn closet. Yes, that is an entire double closet dedicated to yarn. Inside the bag are my most sumptuous treasures. Mohairs. Alpacas. Shiny hemp. Wools that friends have scavenged for me from exotic places. Undyed beauties of incredible softness. Their luminous lengths glow dimly in the dark reaches of the yarn closet and, in my mind, I fondle and stroke them like Tolkein's Gollum. (<span style="font-family: inherit;">"It came to me. My own. My love. My own. My precious.")</span><br />
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A few years ago, Doug and I decided to use our 'good' stuff. We eat from the good dishes daily. I drink tea from my Grandma's tea cups. Our bed is covered with antique quilts. It seemed pointless to always be saving the best things for a special occasion that might never arrive.<br />
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So, when I decided to take a mental break from the Harrison Park series and seek some immediate gratification, it was in this spirit that I dug out the Trader Joe's bag and spilled its riches across my work table. Glowing creams, glossy blacks, softest grays and browns studded with rich jewel tones. Here was treasure indeed. It was time to give battle to my covetous nature and share my precious with the world.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But what to do with it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It needed to be quick - a series of small pieces to give me the sense of completion missing from the longer Harrison Park series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I remembered how much I enjoyed working on <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/2016/07/pebble-winter-meadow-and-summer.html" target="_blank">Pebble</a>, so perhaps a dig through the trove of shells and pebbles collected in my travels was in order.</span><br />
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Once I started selecting little bits of beauty to focus on, I had a lot of fun. Working directly from an object always results in something unexpected.<br />
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Each object is included in a little gift bag tucked into the back of the piece. I like to think that this series might give someone else a chance to reflect on the mysterious beauty of small, natural wonders.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I named the resulting series The Luxurious Textures Series as a nod to both my secret stash of luxury yarns and the investigation of the surface textures of small, found natural objects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Immediate gratification satisfied, I am ready to go back to the longer term commitment of the Harrison Park series. Two more square foot pieces to go and then I'm on the big stuff!</span><br />
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Before I go, a great big thank you to the fabulous group that came out for our workshop at the delicious St. Jacobs <a href="http://www.eco-coffee.ca/" target="_blank">EcoCafe</a> in November.<br />
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There were a number of members from the <a href="https://kwws.org/" target="_blank">K-W Weavers' and Spinners' Guild</a> there and the quality of the work was magnificent.<br />
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As usual, I learned as much as I taught and we had a lively discussion of in depth colour theory and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system" target="_blank">Munsell colour system</a>. Thank you, ladies, and I may still be in touch to borrow those books!<br />
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With holidays and the year's end in view, I find myself ruminating on the great riches life has brought me - love, warmth, abundance - and thinking it is so fragile and temporary.<br />
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May you enjoy the 'good stuff' now and make use of your treasures while you are able to enjoy them!<br />
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<br />Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-55203049089627282602016-10-26T09:51:00.001-07:002016-10-26T10:20:03.745-07:00Spinning the Story of the Wixárika Culture<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I was excited to read <a href="http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/spinning-the-story-of-the-wixarika-culture/" target="_blank">this article</a> about <a href="http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/exhibitions/fowler-focus-spun-universe/" target="_blank">The Spun Universe</a>, an exhibition of Huichol yarn paintings on display at UCLA's Fowler Museum. </div>
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Although my own artistic practice is related to the Huichol's only in that we use similar materials, I think their work is vivid and striking. I learned a lot from Enlow's article that I am grateful to know. For instance, the Huichol are from Western Mexico and are also known as the <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wixárika. Their yarn paintings are called <i>nierakate </i>and are representations of sacred Peyote fueled visions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I first learned about the Huichol (or </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wixárika) during an online search for yarn adhesive. As my practice with fibre art/wool paintings/yarn paintings had deepened, their work has come up over and over again. Fascinating!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On another note, the next <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/workshops.html" target="_blank">yarn painting workshop</a> at the <a href="http://www.eco-coffee.ca/" target="_blank">EcoCafe</a> in St. Jacobs is on November 8th, which is fast approaching. If you want to join us for gourmet coffee and fun with cozy wool, reserve your spot through the <a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/" target="_blank">Silo Weavers.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Feliz Dia De Los Muertos and Happy Hallowe'en, folks!</span></div>
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Few words are as fun to say as 'buzzard'. Especially if you give it a nice rural twang - buhzerd.<br />
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The third square foot piece in my Harrison Park series is finished and is named 'The Buzzard Tree.' Why? Because there are buzzards in the tree. You just can't see them.<br />
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One morning while camping, I crawled out of our tent and looked up to see the sky dark with large, ominous looking...um...vultures? Buzzards? They wheeled slowly overhead for half an hour and then they all settled silently into the branches of this tree. The Buzzard Tree.<br />
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I grabbed my phone and tiptoed under the tree to take some shots but when we got home I discovered that, although I had lots of shots of the tree, I didn't get a single image of a bird. Creepy!<br />
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So, as I say, the buzzards are there. You just can't see them. Weird.<br />
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The Harrison Park series is progressing (almost) on schedule and now, the next phase of the plan has started to take shape.<br />
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I have been selected to mount a solo exhibition of my work in the <a href="http://www.kitchener.ca/en/livinginkitchener/RotundaGallery.asp" target="_blank">Rotunda Gallery of Kitchener City Hall</a> in August 2017. This is really exciting and exactly what I was hoping for. The Rotunda Gallery was one of my favourite haunts when I lived in downtown Kitchener.<br />
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I have also been shortlisted for a solo exhibition in the <a href="http://www.blythfestival.com/art-gallery" target="_blank">Blyth Festival Art Gallery</a> next year and hope to hear the results soon.<br />
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I love it when a plan comes together!<br />
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On October 5, I am giving an artist talk to the very talented members of the Kitchener-Waterloo Weavers' and Spinners' Guild and, also, there's a <a href="http://www.kathywhiteart.com/p/workshops.html" target="_blank">new workshop</a> coming up. See the flyer below for details.<br />
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Mmmm...cozy wool and gourmet roasted coffee in November. I can't wait.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the way most people live, one would never guess that humans are beings of free will. Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't. The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal. The unending repetition is a conscious choice in the pursuit of a life dream. But what about the sameness of most lives? Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink, the Sunday football game or religious service - how many of those people are consciously following their dream, training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition? And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day out of habit and boredom? Jonathan Lockwood Huie</span></i></span></div>
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<b>What an August it has been!</b> The word 'slogging' comes to mind and led me to the above quote, which describes nicely the question I kept asking myself on days when my daily routine - go for a walk, do yoga, work on artwork, practice basic hygiene - seemed an insurmountable task. Maybe it was the grueling heat. Maybe it was life happening while I was busy making other plans. Maybe it was a karmic challenge that I haven't yet learned how to deal with and therefore insists on recurring. Whatever it was, there were days in August when my admittedly pleasant schedule seemed impossible to achieve and I found myself asking why I was trying. Slogging. Running uphill.<br />
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Okay, so August was a little funky for me.<br />
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Happily, September always follows August and ushers in a new phase with new projects and new energy. Already things are looking up. The past two wonderfully cool days have literally brought a breath of fresh air and I successfully finished a piece and met a deadline I was aiming for. Woo hoo.<br />
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Currently, I am working on a series of pieces inspired by our summer camping trip to Harrison Park in Owen Sound, ON. My goal is to complete 6 preliminary square foot pieces using a uniform gauge of yarn and then select at least 4 of those to revisit on 3 foot square panels, taking advantage of the larger scale to work in greater detail and more varied yarn gauge and texture.<br />
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I am really exited about this project for a number of reasons, some of which are:<br />
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<li>It is the first time I have deliberately revisited an image, capitalizing on the lessons I learned from my first kick at the can. I anticipate it will allow me to learn and improve, creating works with deeper understanding of the challenges in capturing the subject.</li>
<li>Although I have done a series of cherry blossom pieces, this is my first time trying to capture the essence of a place in a group of pieces. I am trying to demonstrate what touches me about the park and makes it meaningful.</li>
<li>The two preliminary pieces that I have finished so far are different from my previous work and I think they show a growth in skill and confidence.</li>
<li>This is the first time I have set out to create an exhibition of my work. Behind the scenes. I am applying to calls for submissions and honing my skills in describing my work and artist's statement. Not my favourite thing to do but I become more comfortable talking about my artwork each time I do it.</li>
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Sue from the summer workshop emailed me this photo of her fabulous finished project. I feel like a proud parent!</div>
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And I received some publicity in Eleanor Petrie's article and photographs published in <a href="https://www.canadianquilter.com/newsletters/archive.php" target="_blank">Canadian Quilter's August 2016 magazine</a>. Thanks, Eleanor!</div>
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So - out with August and in with September. May cooler days and changing seasons breathe new life into your routine and your creative projects too!</div>
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Kathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418744296386331221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101236074131572307.post-87844562119187324872016-07-28T07:10:00.000-07:002016-07-28T15:59:13.146-07:00Pebble, Winter Meadow, and Summer Experiments<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A close up of the Sydenham as it rushed past our campsite. Great music for sleeping. Photo by Kathy White.</td></tr>
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Earlier this summer, Doug and I treated ourselves to a camping and hiking trip in Owen Sound, ON. It sounds odd to camp in a city but Harrison Park feels like a secret world, tucked into a tall, green forest and bordered by the Sydenham River. Hiking trails lead directly out of the campground and you can clamber over mossy rocks and little streams, all the way to Inglis Falls.<br />
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I haven't camped in awhile and I was surprised at the feeling of coming home that it gave me. Have you ever experienced that feeling - almost like remembering who you are?<br />
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The scenery made for some great, 'classic Ontario' photos and I came home motivated to do a series that pays tribute to this area. The photo above is my inspiration for the first piece, already in the works. I love the way you can trace the flow of the river in this composition.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Meadow, Peruvian Wool and Beeswax on Birch Panel, 9" x 12" x 1.5"</td></tr>
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I finally finished 'Winter Meadow', which has been my 'in between' project over the winter, spring and summer. If any of you came by my exhibition at the St. Jacobs Quilt and Fibre Art Festival, this was the piece I was working on. Thank you to the many people I consulted about sky colour. You were right - the grey does show off the brighter grasses in the foreground.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pebble, Aran Weight Wool and Beeswax on Birch Panel, 8" x 8" x 1.5"</td></tr>
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Commissioned pieces force me to try something new. 'Pebble' was done by request and I had a lot of fun with it. Whenever we travel to a place I connect with (like Harrison Park), I bring home a small pebble to add to a collection that lives in my yoga space. Over time, I forget where each one is from and they become interesting objects in their variety and individuality. One of those pebbles was the model for 'Pebble'.<br />
(Hey Diana - do you recognize some of your yarn stash? Thanks again!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Betty's workshop piece in progress. I love the colours and the birds!</td></tr>
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Finally, we had another great group show up for our July workshop at the EcoCafe in St. Jacobs. I've said it before and it holds true - fibre people are good people. I witness so many acts of kindness between strangers when I hover on the edges while people work on their pieces. Thanks to everyone who participated and, again, I'd love to see your finished pieces!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a great setting for a fibre art workshop!</td></tr>
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Special thanks to the very accommodating people at the EcoCafe for generously allowing us to use their gorgeous space for our workshop and also for the free refills! The cafe was a cool refuge on a hot day and kept us fueled with yummy treats.<br />
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Thanks as well to the <a href="http://www.siloweavers.ca/" target="_blank">Silo Weavers</a> for getting word out about the workshop, handling registration, and for all of the ongoing, fantastic support.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helene's pretty workshop piece in progress.</td></tr>
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It's been a hot summer here and I'm starting to long for cooler autumn weather with cozy hand-knit sweaters. But not right away. Give me just a little more time for Frisbee and barbecues, early morning sunshine, and afternoons too hot to do anything except find a cool spot to stretch out and read a very good book.<br />
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Happy Summer, Everyone!<br />
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