Local News - Art supplies

For those of you are local, you might be excited to hear that the beloved Ruby Dog Art House is making a temporary comeback!  They will be opening a pop-up store, not far from the original location of their store on Main Street. Here are the deets:

4570 Main St., between 29th and 30th, just one block north of the original RubyDog's. The first day of business is Friday, from 11:00 to 6:00, but the official Grand Opening is Saturday, February 16th. 
Hours of operation: 
Monday: Closed
Tuesday/Wednesday: 11:00 to 6:00
Thursday: 11:00 to 8:00
Friday: 11:00 to 6:00
Saturday; 10:00 to 6:00 (except this Saturday, when we'll stay open until 8:00)
Sunday: 12:00 to 5:00
Last day of business: Sunday, March 31st.

There will be lots of ephemera, bits and bobs and other great art supplies, as well as handmade things by some local artists and designers:

Giving Gifts:  www.givinggifts.ca   (earth friendly gifts)

Honeywild:  www.honeywild.net    (jewellery)

What The Frame:  www.whattheframe.ca  (very cool jewellery storage)

OnceTwice Design Antiques:  www.oncetwice.ca  (mid-century collectibles)

A Farmer's Daughter:   www.etsy.com/shop/afarmersdaughter  (jewellery)

Little Moso: www.littlemoso.com (babies and kids clothes handmade from bamboo fabric)

Daria's Hats:  Handmade hats, bags and fabric pins

Clare's Collectibles:  Collectible purses

 

Check out samples of what you might find in the store here at their Etsy store!  I made many trips to Ruby Dog while i was at Emily Carr University, for inspiration and art supplies, and returned again as an art instructor looking for interesting things to use in collages. I hope you have some time to check it out and support a local entrepreneur and some local artists.

DisCovery: Earth at Seymour Gallery

Today i am off to Deep Cove to drop off my encaustic piece, Disruption (the second painting made by this name) for the DisCovery show, whose theme this year is Earth.

The piece is part of a series that I have been working on for almost three years, and captures my reaction to seeing a former mining site in the Yukon that is in the process of being reclaimed.

DisCovery: Earth runs from January 8 to February 2, 2013.
Opening reception Tuesday January 8, 7-9 pm.

Admission to the gallery and the reception is free.

Ensemble Show 2012

I'm pleased to announce that three of my new encaustic pieces were accepted into the Maple Ridge ACT Gallery's Ensemble show.  This is my second year having work in the show, which opens today (opening reception from 2-4pm) and runs until December 20th.  If you're going to be in the Maple Ridge area, swing by and check it out.  Admission to the gallery is free (and so is the reception!).

Open Studio This Weekend, October 6th!

Well, i finally decided to make a reappearance here, and in my studio as well after taking the summer off to play in the sun and work on music and other stuff.  Now it's time to concentrate on art again, and finish some encaustic pieces I've been working on for a while.

I'll be opening the doors of my studio this Saturday, Oct 6 from noon until 4 or 5 pm.

You can find the details here.

Come on out and visit me, and tell your friends to come, too!  Check out the "this month's studios" tab to see who else is participating and make a day of it!

I might even have cookies, and perhaps some live music courtesy of the Broken Folk Factory and maybe even myself!

Open Studio this weekend!!

I'll be participating in an Open Studio this Saturday, March 3 from noon to 5pm as part of the First Saturday collective.  Come visit me at Eek Studio  - 1888 Main St. at 2nd Avenue in Vancouver where I'll be visiting Carlyn Yandle and co-hosting.  Come check out our paintings, plus see us at work on projects including the Social Network sculpture/installation, which you can hop on to!

For more information on us and other artists participating:
http://firstsaturday.weebly.com/

Come check out and contribute to the Social Network!   http://socialart.weebly.com/index.html

Laying the groundwork...

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer

 The above quote was posted on the Facebook page of a business i follow this morning... I thought it was quite timely as I've been struggling for a while with the motivation and resolve to do just that - spend time on the 'business' end of things, and give credence to my art as a viable business option.  It's only just this week that I've been able to actually spend a chunk of time working on things like revamping the website by adding tons of photos and creating a Facebook 'page' for myself as an artist.  I also finally got up the nerve to start making some calls and emails and inquiries this week to try to start teaching art again.  I have really missed it these past many months, and despite some logistic snags (the biggest of which being the teachers are on Job Action and it makes a lot of extracurricular stuff difficult), I'm going in now with the attitude that I'm going to be able to do this.  Just gather the information together and put myself out there.

 It took me a long time to muster up the courage to quit what I was doing and go to art school, and then when i graduated, I spent a long time looking for the confidence to get myself 'out there'.  The above quote rings so true for me right now, i continuously teeter on the brink of giving up and going back to my 'other' job full-time.  Recently i had a conversation with an artist friend of mine who has been practicing in her studio for over a year.  I was inspired by her to do the same, even though it took me a while to get going.  And she started wondering out loud about giving up, asking how long she should keep doing this and saying that she felt "lost'.  I surprised myself when my response came.  "When you are lost in the woods, what do you do?"  And the answer is one that we all know.  Stay where you are, and someone will find you.

Keep it up, don't lose hope and continue to love what you do.

 

Updated Pages!

I've updated my pages along the right side of this page, and added some Exhibitions photos.

More updates to come as I work on adding more work to the Gallery.