 The Window- photograph, Natasha Henderson Upcoming fun this autumn… We are very excited to announce that we will be part of the official programming for Culture Days / Journées de la culture, September 27-29, 2013. Photography, painting, and mixed media artists are collaborating to reflect upon the unique 9th storey, Fleurbain view of downtown Montreal. The work in this group exhibition reflects the experience of looking out… as we look out, we look in. List of artists to be announced mid-September… Stay tuned! Friday Sept 27 12-5pm While visiting during daytime hours, as a part of Culture Days, we are offering a chance for you to make your own piece of artwork that is inspired by our view. The following Saturday (October 5) we will be hosting a poetry reading in collaboration with this exhibition. Stay tuned for that, too! Fleurbain is located at 460 St Catherine West, unit 917. Natasha Henderson, Montreal ***JOIN our Facebook Event for the vernissage!*** |
Small Works Too
Join Ten of Montreal’s finest artists in an evening to celebrate those good things that come in small packages.
On Saturday December 1, starting at 6pm, enjoy some festive food and drinks while you chat with sparkling people and exhibiting artists.
Artists involved in this exhibition are:
-Elissa Baltzer
-Heather Boyd
-Denise Buisman-Pilger
-Natasha Henderson
-Francoise Issaly
-David Merk
-Annie-Claude Pépin
-Sarah Robinson
-Patricia Srigley
-Julie Verfaillie
If you cannot make the vernissage on December 1 at 6pm, don’t fret, we will host a mid-way festival with date/time TBA too! (Most likely Saturday December 15.)
Show runs until December 30 (closed December 23-26 and December 31 and January 1.)
Small Works from last year
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Lauren Trimble
We are proud to present an exciting event on Sunday June 3. Three artists who are in the current exhibition “Cross Pollination” will give a short public demonstration of their craft.
Lauren Trimble will show and tell how she makes ceramic tiles.
Heather Boyd will present the process behind her copper wire mixed media sculptures.
Heather Boyd
Natasha Henderson will show how to make wool felt (from “scratch”).
The event is free. We just want to share our love of our craft with you!
Natasha Henderson
All three artists teach their craft, and all actively display their work in various venues. Come out and join us for a lively chat.
Event is Sunday June 3 from 5pm to 7pm.
Fleurbain 460 St Catherine West, Unit #917.
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Art and Architecture is a group exhibition that brings together six artists. The work examines ideas about architecture, and ideas about our use of space, our cities, and our history. Some of the artists are also trained in architecture and are practicing architects as well as visual artists.
Burano - Denise Buisman Pilger
Denise Buisman Pilger shares three pieces with us… all mixed media acrylic collage on wood or canvas. These paintings take scenes and snippets of life from a specific place, and reconstruct them. They are like condensed visions of experiences.
Vers Brooklyn - Marc Chabot
Marc Chabot has three larger pieces, as well as two smaller pieces in the show. They are mixed media collage and paint on wood. All are ruminations on New York. They layer images from diverse sources, interwoven and infused into a new surface.
Naomi Frangos is displaying the Utopia series, as well as a single simple and lovely piece “of snow”. The Utopia series is a collection of four ceramic hand mono-printed tiles. They reflect upon ancient architecture, as well as ideas of weaving time and space through process. During the opening of the exhibition, she also shared her amazing and masterful Fig Vessel ceramic work.
of warp and weft 1 - Naomi Frangos
The Tower - Jennifer Hamilton
Jennifer Hamilton‘s piece The Tower is a large digital print of sacred places, transformed into one fantastical, imagined entity. For me it feels like a trip to Disneyland!
Mycelial Kingdom - Kimerley Mok
Kimberley Mok (some might recall her work from our Small Works show last December) is sharing five prints with us, three of which are available in a large and small format. Her work looks at architecture, nature, places, Montreal, and stirs in a healthy mix of fancy, fantasy, and wonder.
Room - Keivan Khademi Shamami
Finally, Keivan Khademi Shamami is showing two pieces that further walk into ideas surrounding history of place. They wonder at what has transpired before, asking about what layers of time and meaning are found in a place.
The exhibition is in Fleurbain at 460 St Catherine Street West, Unit 917 until April 17th. We are open regular gallery hours Saturday and Sunday 3-6pm, as well as by appointment, please email: fleurbain@gmail.com
See all the individual work online, too. All work in the exhibition is here. Note for collectors, all prices include taxes and shipping to anywhere in North America.
If you want a little taste of how the works in the show all relate to one another, you can enjoy the following video:
Artist Talks will be held on two days.
On March 31 from 7-9pm, Marc Chabot, Naomi Frangos, and Keivan Khademi Shamami will talk about their work.
On April 14 from 3-5pm, Kimberley Mok, Jennifer Hamilton, and Denise Buisman Pilger will talk.
Come meet the artists, and join in the talk about architecture, space, art, life in the city, and more.
Natasha Henderson, Montreal
Structure Cigale (Small I) by Francoise Issaly
Some of Montreal’s artistic talents have come forth to present their gifts… to you. Visit us at Fleurbain during this season to take in some painting, photography and more… not to mention a cup of tea or glass of wine (depending on time of day!)
Garden Party 3 by Carole Arbic
BIG VERNISSAGE: Saturday December 10, 6-9pm
Sunday December 11, 3-9pm (informal fun vernissage part two!)
Tuesday December 13 to Friday Dec 16, 3-6pm each day
Saturday December 17 EXTENDED HOURS 11am to 9pm
Sunday December 18 to Friday December 30, 3-6pm each day except Monday.
Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Boxing Day.
Tuesday January 3 to Friday January 6, 3pm-6pm each day. Saturday January 7th Finissage!!! 12 noon ’til 6pm…
Abundance by Lorraine Miller Emmrys
Work may be purchased and taken away for gift wrapping/giving on the spot. If you can’t make it to the show, or would like to look at individual works again, please see our online gallery.
Come join us for some festive fun. Tea’s always on…
All images copyright the artists.
Mary Blaze is a Vancouver area artist, whose works traverse from painting, to mixed media, to performance. You can see more of her works at http://artforcecollections.com/.
Artist In Her Studio With Ceramic Vase 18" x 12" copyright Mary Blaze 2010
What to Do with an Old Water-Stained Piece of Building Paper?
Creation begins coincident with my husband’s attempt to discard an old, water-stained roll of building paper. In a spontaneous act, I retrieve it, lop off an eleven foot length onto my studio floor, and go to work.
My stack of newspapers, used to protect studio surfaces from over-brushings and roll-outs, is at hand. Therein are my first images for collage. As I place them randomly on the substrate with acrylic medium, I begin to see window frame forms, across the horizontal length.
Artist In Her Studio With Candle and Candlestick 18"x12" copyright Mary Blaze 2010
Onto the suggested squares and rectangles, I collage scanned and printed drawings from my sketch books, along with some recently completed drawings and prints. From this point on, the work is directing me, as different from me imposing conscious determinations onto it.
Artist In Her Studio With Ink Bottle 18"x12" copyright Mary Blaze 2010
I am in my studio, driven to using things at hand. I look around me and my ink bottle comes into focus, so, with Aquarelle water soluble crayons, I draw it. A friend had left a luscious looking, red skinned pear, and I draw it, too. This work is becoming a very personal statement, but now a shift takes place. As I add my Dad’s lantern and my Mom’s lamp into the spaces at each end of the paper, these two, coupled with my own central candle and candlestick, bring the work into the realm of heritage, and here it is: the cross-over of my two abiding passions, art and genealogy, having come unbidden into visual coexistence.
Artist In Her Studio With Wild Flower Bouquet and Lantern 18"x18.5" copyright Mary Blaze 2010
I wonder if, during the elapsed year of this work, the undemanding nature of the remnant from our house building project, gives me the freedom to work at a sub-conscious level, to create “Artist in Her Studio with . . . ,” but whatever, it is something to do with an old piece of building paper.
Artist In Her Studio With Teacup and Lamp 18"x18.5" copyright Mary Blaze 2010
If you would like to be next month’s featured artist, check out this link! Thank you, Mary, for sharing your art and artistic process with us.
Are you the crafty type? Do you knit, sew, make unique things, break out the glitter-glue, modelling clay or paintbrushes every time you think about presenting 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, but still want to make something beautiful, handmade, and very easy to mail. Well, you can take an afternoon, take some supplies, and take your sewing machine… and…
Sewing on Paper!
You can sew on paper! If you make or buy heavy weighted paper cards they will hold stitching. I used Strathmore cards for mine, they’re available throughout Canada in many craft-supply or stationery stores. There are lots of other fine-quality cards out there, or just cut your own cards out of heavy paper. You can make envelopes for them yourself out of “regular” paper, packaging, gift-wrap… or re-use old envelopes.
I painted with acrylic paints first, then added glitter-glue (hahaha), and did a touch or two more of the acrylic. I worked on several cards at once, so that if I had a colour on my palette, it could be used on all of the cards at one time. I finally ended with a line or two of stitching to tack down some sequins. Instead of sequins you could use fabrics, scraps of wool or other objects instead. Or… just use the stitching as a level of the decoration. You could really piece something fabulous together that would be more than just a card, it would be a keepsake work of art for the lucky person who receives it.
The finished card, a work of mailable art!
Natasha Henderson, Montreal
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