QuArtz Canada Art Quilting

Welcome back to all returning and new members!

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Thomas Merton

A reminder that our Trailblazing Women of BC are on display this month at Gallery Vertigo in downtown Vernon. Drop by and have a look at them there and see what else the gallery has to offer in its annual Cloth-O Festival.

Fall is a very busy time in the local art community, there are many different kinds of art exhibits on display in September. A road trip anyone? There is something going on all throughout the valley. Some of these are one or two day events and others are on for the month. Check out the websites for each for more information.

Coldstream

Lake Country

Kelowna

FAN exhibit, Penticton Art Gallery

Osoyoos

A reminder that we are showing our Home Quilts, Accordion Books and Beads at the second VSSQ meeting in October. It will be held on Thursday October 15th. You can bring your pieces to the October 13th QuArtz meeting for Joan to organize. Any questions please contact Joan.

We discussed bringing in a travelling exhibit from Fibre Art Network (FAN). You can look at the exhibits on the website, https://www.fibreartnetwork.com/exhibits/, Jeanette will keep us informed about when we will be having them and there will be a small cost to cover postage.

Karen has rented a dye studio at the Vernon Community Arts Centre for the week of September 20-26. She wants to know if any of you are interested in coming up and exploring dyeing methods with her. You can get in touch with her for anymore information. Further down in the Show and Tell section you will see some of her indigo dying results.

Joan is talking to Charlie Hanson, the artist on display at Gallery Vertigo this month, about a gel plate printing workshop. If you are interested please talk to Joan as this will be a private workshop and not part of QuArtz.

Two Ways of Seeing

This is our challenge for the year. One abstract and one representational quilt of the same picture by two different people. We had a good time handing out the pairings and the pictures. There are 20 people participating in the challenge. Your quilt is to be 18" x 18" square. Finished however you like, embellished as much as you like. It needs a 4" hanging sleeve on the back. You can work with your partner or not, it is up to you both. Any questions see Cath or Judith.

Art Styles

Karen Lyrical Expressionism.

Our first presentation on Art Styles was done by Karen. Her featured artist is Wassily Kandinsky. https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/

He is usually considered as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western Art.

"Everything starts with a dot." Kandinsky

She had a compelling talk on his work and many wonderful large images to show how influences changed his art over his lifetime. She had seen his work in a gallery and even has two throw pillows inspired by Kandinsky paintings.

Here are a few examples of his work.

Pillow

Prints

Edge Finishes

This season we are also looking into different edge finishes. Shirley presented our first one in her show and tell. She has finished her tree ring by making a fringed edge out of the burlap in her piece.

The sign up sheet is going around and please sign up to talk about your favourite edge finish.

Show and Tell

Shirley has also mounted her tree ring using velcro on a covered canvas. Some nice stitching on the background. She showed some fine line pens she found online to use on her Home piece. Also and example of using them on fabric.

Joan has made a pair of tree rings. She also brought in some of her collage work .

Deborah has a background made for her accordion book and also showed us a felt wallhanging.

My apologies here, it was a busy meeting and I lost track of whose tree ring was whose. So I will add them here, well done everyone!

Brigitte brought along a tree ring and an origami butterfly page for her accordion book.

Linda W. showed her beginning picture and the finished piece using a photo transfer. The brown striped outline is made with wasp nest paper. Thread work moss and a real feather decorate it.

Sandie showed us her rust dyed fabric, it had been missing since her move but she found it.

Ella has her shibori fabric all dried and now just has to decide what to do with it.

Shelley showed us two pillow covers she made, one of our local Terrace Mountain out by Fintry.

Karen has been exploring indigo dyeing and has shown us a large selection of samples. She dyed some with many dips into the indigo pot to get the darkest of the blues.

Linda W. will be showing us Glycerin Leaves next month. She had a sample leaf and a small piece she had used them on to give us an idea on what to expect.

Featured Talk

Shirley P. gave an excellent talk on the Mola art of the Guna Indians of Panama. She has been fascinated with them and their artwork for years. She has visited them in Panama and studied the difficult techniques they use to make their unique art.

Here are some resources for more information on the Guna Indians.