Blog post delayed.....It's official - I have arrived

Sorry - but... I refuse to be any different now to how I was last week...
I mean I wont let all the lovely things that are being said to me and about my art, go to my head.
I still slop about in jeans and my SNNAP T-shirt.
I still prevaricate about what creative endeavour to throw myself at.
I still have sleepless nights about this falling off the ceiling beam at Artspring, Saltspring Island.

Memory Hive - Karin Millson, 2017

Image offset due to layout constraints, sorry.

One lady said to me that this piece would look great scaled up. It is 6' tall now but I know, I know.  I have dreamt of my works filling huge spaces and I would love to do just that, make them bigger.
If there is anyone out there who knows Architectural folks who might be interested in speaking to me.. please let me know.  After all, why do I spend my time putting stuff up here if not to ask for help now and again.  Networking - Karin-style!
I am a classically trained artist, so I come without any business sense... That is something that the Saltspring Arts Council might be able to help me with.  (By the way, should there be an apostrophe in there somewhere?  I certainly think so)
Here is a detail.

Memory Hive (Detail) Karin Millson, 2017

And here is my name in print.

http://www.gulfislandsdriftwood.com/arts-entertainment/parallel-show-reveals-artists-in-their-prime/

Does the title mean it is all downhill from here?

Kreative Momentum - Yes it's my gallery.

Which is the most important gallery representing me?  Is it Fine Art America or my home grown Kreative Momentum.  I guess it is KM.  This is the gallery that will be given credit in my "tag line" at the Parallel Show.  
If you have come here after linking via that Tagline, welcome.  If you wish to email me go here.

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Today I am packing "Memory Hive" for transport to The Parallel Show."
It is going to be nerve wracking.
That sort of artwork is usually assembled on location.
(mage coming soon).

Below is a recent tryptic, I challenged myself to create in fibre what I had created in acrylic paint, and various types of paper. Go in close and examine it.  Did I succeed? Let me know via a comment below.

May - September 2017

It is hard to believe I have been working since May and not blogged.
Well, not really unbelievable when I think it through.  After all, I wasn't really able to post about the work I was doing.
I created my work for entry to the Saltspring Island National Art Prize... which I wasn't selected for, though the piece is going to be shown in the parallel show which opens in a bit over a week.  It is a large sculpture and took many months to create.

I have been working on varied aspects of the Evolution of Moral Progress and many small art pieces getting ready for filling a big art space in 2018.

Above are some experimental marks created for a cope for a Priestess in EMP.

New Start... Again

There has been a lot going on - A move from Houston.  Up to Saltspring Island, B.C., Canada.  Work on the theatre production with Wendy.  Work on an entry for SSNAP.
But today I post something that I am able to...

The Moth project.

These moths will be flying over to Albuquerque, later in the year.

They will join many 100s of moths to be part of a huge crowd sourced installation project.

I joined the Saltspring Island Painters' Guild and more specifically the Printers' Group.

And we are all making moths to join that project.

Also these moths will be shown at Mahon Hall on Saltspring Island, hanging them tomorrow with many many others.

And later at the Saltspring Island Conservation area on Blackburn Lake for their Summer festival.

The moths seem to have developed a life of their own = check out their Facebook page here.

Last weekend - more coffee and art

It is a good thing that John likes coffee and he now isn't sure if I suggested Inversion cafe because of the location or the Art League Gallery adjoining it.

Table top mosaic

There we found the coffee shop renovated since October's visit.  It is lovely now and the coffee is good.

We sat outside where there was a lovely piece of fibre art:-
I thought Pily might like this No Hay Pedo - another Mafi Mushkila type phrase meaning - "there's no problem"...

A Forged Utopia
Giovanni Valderas
Detail below

And then we went to the main gallery where I learnt the little known fact that 400-1000 women disguised themselves as men and fought for both sides of the American Civil War.  Some were discovered and sent home and others stayed on the battlefield and worked as nurses.  Others fought as men with distinction and only came out as women when safely living again at home.  Many more were killed on the battlefield.

And She Was
Margaret Meehan

I enjoyed my time working on a still life series

karin millson March 2016

Exhibition Entry and more

When I came to Texas I didn't know what my working days would be like.
Turns out activity has been cyclical with periods of mixed media

Just exercise! 

Karin Millson

and other  periods (= hours and hours)  of very computer focussed slogging.
There have been times of gallery visiting though.
Last weekend we spent a lovely Saturday in and around the downtown area of Galveston. It was a delight, and very inspiring.

I wasn't expecting to see up-liftingly colourful works of Rene Wiley  in her gallery and the stunning fibre art  that she calls Textile Mosaics, by Brenda J Bunten-Schloesser who includes weavings and collage in her art.

Reaching (Old Red) 40 x 20 "

 by Brenda J Bunten-Schlosser

Photo Credit to renewiley Gallery 2128 Postoffice, Galveston

Who represent this artist.

Later we gallery hopped and got all inspired to take photographs after a long chat with  Peter A Bowman (Photographer).  I am still enjoying learning about my new camera E-M5II with its sweet little lens that can fit in my handbag, but it does have inter-changeables (though I just have the one)... aren't I proud.

I can't help it -  I love texture and look at those colours.

Wall Sauce

Karin Millson 2016

I am ready to post a package off to Wendy again... it will be pricey with what it has to contain, let's just say beads, cape, music box.  Life is certainly diverse and full of challenge right now.

Latest drawing ?exercise...

Why think of these things as exercises. Are they not just as much a piece of valid art as any other thing done today?