by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
LEFT: Part server’s apron, part tool belt. Right: Detail of a finished Work Wrap. Photos by Carlyn Yandle TOP: Free Store jeans and work shirts, fresh out of the solar-powered washing machine. ABOVE: A display of 10 Work Wraps, sold out at the Lasqueti Island...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tiny house village in Sonoma, California I have been preoccupied these past months with a basic question: Where is my forever home? I’ve lived in the same Kitsilano condo since 1995 yet I never felt truly at home in a building, with a lobby and an intercom....
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 14, 2016 | Children, Creative Process, Experimentation, Exploration, Social Engagement
For the last six Saturdays I have thrown open my studio doors to seven kids between the ages of 5 and 7, ostensibly to offer some art classes, but really, this was for me. I had been feeling a little stuck, with lots of false starts and second-guessing in my artwork....
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 20, 2016 | Creative Process, Drawing, Flow, Inspiration, Marie Kondo, Organization, Right Brain, Zendoodle
Every time I turn around someone’s got her nose in Marie Kondo’s international bestseller book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up or they’re doodling zentangles. I’ve mixed both into one potent creative cocktail, an elixir for dismissing what The Artist’s Way...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 16, 2015 | Fibre Arts, Haywood Bandstand, Installation, Lighthouse, Lumiere Festival, Network, Public Art
‘Lighthouse’, commissioned by the Burrard Arts Foundation for Lumiere Festival 2015. Carlyn Yandle photo As I was wrapping bolts of fabric around the Haywood Bandstand across from English Bay last Friday, a few intrepid dog-walkers approached me, shouting...
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