Badlands & Rainforest

As you walk into the first room, on the left is Donna's 'Fallen Leaves' and Ingrid's 'Forest Vessel'

Here is Ingrid talking about her work while leading a tour of about 40 people around the exhibition.

Next, along the wall (a covered blackboard) is Donna's 'Arbutus' and my 'Fossil Bed'.

Back to the Rainforest with my 'Regression' and Donna's 'Yellow Cedar' and 'Sitka Spruce'.

First Exhibition Space

This is the view on the right as one enters the 1st of 3 exhibition spaces.
'Reading The Past II' - mine
'Hoodoos' - Ingrid Lincoln
'A Hole of My Own' - Vickie Newington
'A Walk in the Park' - Leann Clifford

'Fallen Leaves' - Donna
'Sucession' - mine

'Sleeping Giants' - mine
'Outwash' - mine

This is a poor image and you can't see the works but it gives you an idea of how we worked with the space to find the best place for each work.
The 2 square works are Donna's and the round one is Miriam Birkenthal's.
This collection of 3 illustrates the wide range of materials and techniques Articulation members use to express their ideas and to tell their stories.

Inspiration & Work

Summer is a time to travel and visit. I took our recent visitors/company to one of my favourite places in Alberta - Dinosaur Provincial Park. It didn't fail to inspire me again and got me thinking that maybe there is more work here for me to do.

When Articulation (the group I study & exhibit with) came to together, the first place we studied was Dinosaur Provincial Park. We each produced a series of Badlands work and exhibited it. I thought I had completed my Badlands series but every time I go back to this park I find it still full of ideas.
Every year since, Articulation has come together in a special place in Canada to do a study. We then return to our individual studios across the country to turn the inspiration and research into a personal response. These individual series of works are then exhibited, usually back near where they originated from.
As an artist co-operative, this combination of sharing, support and individuality is one of the things that makes Articulation unique.
An exciting new aspect for the group is the development of a presence on the web. After exhibiting in galleries on the Pacific coast, the Atlantic coast and places in between, a website is needed to keep us connected with those who are getting to know our work.
So that's where the work part of this post's title comes in as any one who has had a hand in developing a web presence knows. It is a lot of work.
If you visit our website regularly you will see the cyber growth of another articulated arm of Articulation.
http://www.articulationtextilegroup.com/

McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta

Early in the morning Donna Clement and I packed the car then headed north to Edmonton to the University of Alberta Hospital Mc Mullen Gallery to install our work.

The large gallery space was daunting as we laid out our work.

But with help of family members we found a place for everything by early evening.

Donna and I will attend the Artists' Reception on April 24th from 7 to 9 pm.

Lesley Turner's Art Gallery

I have added a public web album of some of my work you can access by clicking on the address to the right.
You can click on the map to find the geographical location that inspired each work.
I will continue to add details about each work in the captions.