 Banff, AB  ASA Gallery, Calgary, AB  Sparrow Artspace, Calgary, AB There are many reasons to take part in an Artist Residency, but the most valuable to me are:
During my time in Banff, I focused on landscape painting on wood panels utilizing slow drying acrylics. I have always been interested in the landscape but felt intimidated by it and utilized the time to figure out how I wanted to approach this subject. I have continued to work on plein air landscapes on wood panels, but am now incorporating handmade watercolours in my attempt to leave a lighter footprint on the earth. While at the ASA Gallery with the Alberta Society of Artists, I had the opportunity to do some research on a series of portraits that I wanted to create which features historical Alberta female artists. It was the first time I created larger portraits utilizing watercolours. Prior to the residency at the ASA Gallery, I was given space and time at Sparrow Artspace to explore two different media: embroidery on canvas and watercolour portraiture. Since that residency, I have expanded the work with embroidery as that was my initial introduction to visual art as my family is from South America and embroidered much of their handmade clothing. I am also making more watercolour paint while using Beam Paints watercolours, an organic Canadian made product. Also, I have continued work on watercolour portraits for the project titled 'Women of the West.' Without the time and place that I was granted to explore this work, I don't know if I would have continued it. Since then, several projects have now been exhibited with another nearing completion and I feel very good about that. Comments are closed.
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