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The members of Artists’ Workshop are again gathering together every week at Grace Westminster Auditorium to paint together, share information, and support each other. This year we welcome two new members to the group, Celeste Delahey and Leslie Stadnichuck, whose work continues to add to the diversity of our group. Below are examples of theirContinue reading “Our new season is underway!”

Taking your paints and brushes to the street is a sure fire way to bridge your art with the community. I’m an enthusiastic plein air painter and urban sketcher. My paints, pens and sketchbooks travel with me everywhere I go. When I set up on the street, there’s always a connection with someone – aContinue reading “Bridging ~ Patricia Katz”

Bridges are for exploring, crossing, burning and describe beauty, relationships, struggles.  They can represent choices and directions both wise and unwise and necessary.  I have experienced  bridges, both physical and contemplative in my art practice. Over the years, I have selected bridges as a painting image and have sold paintings of the bridges that provide access to ourContinue reading “Bridging ~ Kathleen Slavin”

A few ways I see bridging in my art practice are: Time and Place – Recently I have been focussed on a series of work called Prairie Perspectives that bridges time and place. Across the Saskatchewan landscape homesteads are deserted, granaries sit empty and elevators are rapidly disappearing. This exhibition explores what we see today andContinue reading “Bridging ~ Paige Mortensen”

One afternoon a few years ago the phone rang and a voice at the other end said “You don’t know me but I just wanted to tell you how much I’m enjoying one of your paintings.”. The man told me his name and where he was from. We’d never met. He didn’t own any ofContinue reading “Bridging ~ Molly Clark”

Marilyn’s work bridges the landscapes of Saskatchewan, from flowers in her back yard, to the alleyways of the city, to the boreal forest. The link between them are the reds and magentas that underpin much of Marilyn’s paintings. Marilyn sketches and takes photos to use as the foundation for her striking paintings.

My work has always centred around the natural world … art has always been an outlet to my awe of nature and the wonder of the natural living world around me. I have always sought to imbue that sense of wonderment and spirit into the scenes that evolve under my brush. To bridge if youContinue reading “Bridging ~ Cindy Wright”

Several years ago I started making Artist Trading Cards in an effort to use up my stash of collage materials, and it quickly became a bit of an obsession. These are tiny artworks, the size of playing cards, traditionally traded with other artists rather than sold. Realizing that I wasn’t making much of a dentContinue reading “Bridging ~ Kathryn Green”

One way I bridge my art with the community is by offering to be ‘Guest Artist’ in school classrooms.  There, I introduce the notion of stitch as an art form, and fabric as a medium.  I bridge longstanding craft skills with contemporary fine art.  The joy and wonder that comes out when children create withContinue reading “Bridging ~ Monika Kinner-Whalen”

I love playing around mixing colours to find just the right hue or just to see what a different variation of red will do to one of my many favourite blues. The problem I would run into after all this mixing was trying to recreate a favourite and not remembering what I used to makeContinue reading “My Favourite Thing ~ Sharron Schoenfeld”