Category: Art

  • Photo Theme for December: Fire and Ice

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    Every month at Fleurbain we are offering our Facebook โ€œlikersโ€ the chance to upload an image, with a?รกshort description about it, to our wall. We will add the image and photographerโ€™s credits and story about the picture to this site. Eternal immortality is the best reward. Our theme for this month is: Fire and Ice.โ€ฆ

  • DIY Sewn Cards

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    Are you the?รกcrafty type? Do you knit, sew, make unique things, break out the glitter-glue, modelling clay or paintbrushes?รกevery time you think about?รกpresenting presents to your loved ones? Maybe you would like to send something handmade to your friends and family who live afar. Perhaps this year you need or want to simplify gifts, butโ€ฆ

  • December 2010

    Letโ€™s face it people, December is one cold, dark month. ?รกSo, naturally, we have this urge to light candles, listen to music and decorate. ?รกWe spice it up and bring aromatic herbs, spices, citrus and branches into our homes. ?รกEach step outside is an act in bravery as face the sharp chill of the airโ€ฆ

  • Hanging Artwork, a Matter of The Gut

    Natasha Henderson, Montreal Hanging art is something of an art in itself. There are rules and tips and advice and stuff that people go by, like โ€œthe middle must be so-and-so inches from the groundโ€. This might work sometimes, but certainly not always.?รกI actually forget what that magical number is! I do know, however, thatโ€ฆ

  • Non-Toxic Art

    by Natasha Henderson, Montreal As some of you may know, I am a painter. I paint in oils, which are a lush and rich material. Pigment is suspended in oil, it slowly dries, it holds its body and texture and translucencyโ€ฆ it is like painting?รกwith light. Who wouldnโ€™t want to paint with light? It soundsโ€ฆ

  • What She Felt

    Memoir by Natasha Henderson Felt is non-woven, non-knit fabric that is made of bits of wool or other fur. Felt-making has been around for a very long timeโ€ฆ weโ€™re talking about five thousand years. The contemporary method for making felt is similar in science to the ancient method: a combination of pressure, heat, water, andโ€ฆ

  • Art Review: Parisian Laundry Rick Leong and Michael A. Robinson

    by Natasha Henderson, Montreal A fellow painter, Rick Leongร”ร‡ร–s?รกwork is something that I can appreciate. Nature is the major inspiration for his large-scale oil on canvas works, but he delves into a fairy-tale, mystic and imagined place. The wonder of seeing is ever-present. The shapes and forms that magically appear amongst the trees, moss, sky,โ€ฆ