2022-20 Living Artfully with Gail

Hello Dear Art Lover   

START THE CAR!!!

Isn't this weather just a little crazy?! I know you don't want me to say it, but...just a little tiny bit of snow wouldn't be that bad would it? Just enough to get everyone in the mood for the holidays. But before I go ahead and get all excited about what is coming up for the Christmas season, I really must take a pause to show respect on Remembrance Day. Even with all our political noise, I think we're very fortunate to live in this country. My dad was one of those young men who lied about their age to join the navy in WW2. Him and his best buddy, also named Bill, were on convoy duty accompanying bigger ships across the Atlantic. Thanks Bills.

My Grandma bought a camp (cottage to the southerners here) on Lake Superior in the 1930's. Imagine a drafty cabin, no electricity, no indoor plumbing. Anyways..it's been the scene of many a good time for almost a century. We have a 'camp' book, a guest book, that has been filled down through the years, with notes of appreciation from friends and relatives, drawings from grandkids and stories of crazy antics. We're a large family so we do have quite a few tales.

When my Mom was the owner, my Dad wrote a romantic letter to her about his adoration . My Dad died when he was 57, my Mom at 92. She didn't discover that love note until many years afterwards. My Dad, ever the trickster, put it near the end of the book. I've read that book many times and it always makes me tear up.

When I finished the painting you see here, it just had to be called 'Love You Forever'. And when I was deciding on what would be the focus of this year's ' Small Works', I knew it had to be my 'Love You Forever' series.

SAVE THE DATE ... SMALL WORKS
ADVANCE RELEASE TO VIPs … that's YOU

This year's Small Works will be open to you, my VIPs, at thespecial discountprice of $270 startingNov 22 - Nov 25. On Nov 26, the price goes up to $300 when they are available to the general public. I'll be posting photos so you can choose. I'll only have 9 and one has sold already. Here's a teaser to let you in on what to expect.

You could get your 'Love You Forever' original painting at our Gifts for the Soul holiday market on Nov 26, 9:30 - 4 pm, 450 Broadview Ave, (north of Gerrard St E). If you order ahead the price is $270. They are 11x 14, acrylic on paper, matted in a standard size, ready for framing.

Perhaps you'll see something else that you just have to have. There will be a fantastic choice of pottery, paintings, jewellery, wearable art, fibre art, notebooks and boxes made from recycled materials, and glassware. I can't wait to see what our creative team is bringing to the table. And of course, the weather will be perfect

You know I love to get letters from you! Steve sent this fun story a few weeks ago. It's a wild world out there folks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11366321/Mondrian-painting-hanging-UPSIDE-different-galleries-75-years.html

Thanks for reading and for supporting my art adventures. You ARE the wind beneath my wings. You might see one of the many signs Dorothy and I planted in Riverdale. Thanks to all the folks who are helping to advertise our Gifts for the Soul Holiday Market 2022.

Rock on,

Gail

YOUR HOME + YOUR STYLE + MY ART

2021-30 Living Artfully

Hello Dear Art Lover    

Did you see it?

Hey there!!! Did you see that moon? It was amazingly awesome and ginormous ( it's a word..honest ) I'm not usually out after 6 these days, but I was taking my boys home just in time for bed and was lucky enough to be able to catch that beauty while it was low on the horizon. Fox informed me that it was the Hunter Moon. He's right of course. The sky was so clear that apparently if I'd gone out later, I could have seen more stars as well. Thanks to Len, here are more wonderful moon images.

Canada Playing with The Moon - YouTube

If you've looked on my Instagram and Facebook account, you've seen that my nephew, Bill, and I have finished a collaboration that we've been working on for a while. He added the final touch with a poem that eloquently completes the picture. If you would like to see it in person, I invite you for a private studio tour. Bill and I really get each other and it is evident that we are evolved from the same warped mind set. I hope I see more of this kind of working together in the future.

The following quote is from the author Ann Patchett talking about writing. Insert 'artist' and you'll see why I include it today.

'You will take bits from books you’ve read and movies you’ve seen and conversations you’ve had and stories friends have told you, and half the time you won’t even realize you’re doing it. I am a compost heap, and everything I interact with, every experience I’ve had, gets shoveled onto the heap where it eventually mulches down, is digested and excreted by worms, and rots. It’s from that rich, dark humus, the combination of what you encountered, what you know and what you’ve forgotten, that ideas start to grow.'

What appears on my canvas is exactly that..a combination of so much input that is buried under layers upon layers upon layers. Most of the time, I have no conscious idea of where my ideas come from. I am learning to honour them when they show up.

The Super Sale continues. Today I've attached some photos from my $100.00 sale bin. The lovely landscapes are mixed media and acrylic, 30 x 15 in and ready to hang on your wall. 'Mask' is also $100.00, mixed media and acrylic, 12 x 12in, ready to hang. You are invited to see these pieces either at my studio, or I can bring them to you. Studio tours are my specialty.

As ever, I truly appreciate your support of my small business. Thank you.


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ROCK ON,

Gail