by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 2, 2024 | Abstract Painting, Anxiety, Art Discourse, Art Quilt, Carlyn Yandle, Circular Thinking, Color, Colour, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Distraction, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Flow, Geometric Art, Hand Stitching, Hybrid Thinking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Mathematics, Needlework, Painting, Perception, Playing, Quilt, Quilt Block, Visual Field
I opened up my studio yesterday to the public to get some general feedback on a new series of paintings. Because even though I’m compelled to keep working on it and even though I’m enjoying a growing proficiency in this mash-up of stitching and painting I’m having...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 10, 2018 | Activism, Appropriation, Architecture, Art School, Challenge, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Community, Construction, Craft, Craftivism, Crochet, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, ECUAD, Emily Carr Cozy, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Expression, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handwork, Intervention, Knitting, Making, MFA, Needlework, Networking, Performance, Political Art, Public Art, Recycle, Safety, Sewing, Social Engagement, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
The other day I did this because it really needed to happen. All that gleaming new-campus architecture, surrounded by other gleaming buildings and gleaming buildings yet-to-come was begging for a little fuzzying up.I did my undergrad at the old Emily Carr University...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 17, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Aesthetics, Appropriation, Architecture, Beauty, Color, Colour, Domestic Interventions, Eggbeater Creative, Embroidery, Fabric, Garment, Maya, Needlework, Sewing, Textile
A wall of a Peruvian restaurant in Merida, Mexico is devoted to customers’ reviews written on ribbons. Carlyn Yandle photo Modern science calls it bunk but I am fully on board with chromotherapy, an alternative medicine branded by the labcoats as a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2017 | Art, Color, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Doilies, Dyeing, Experimentation, Fabric, Found Objects, Innovation, Quilt, Quilting, Sewing, Stitching, Work Wraps
“Your hair seems blue,” a friend noted over dinner.It really is. I’ve joined the blue-rinse gang — emphasis on the blue. Denim blue is an unnatural hair hue that seems only natural now that I’m surrounded by heaps of old jeans and altering all those tones of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 28, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Architecture, Collage, Color, Colour, Composition, Experimentation, Found Objects, Graffiti, Guanajuato, Images, Instagram, Mixed Media, Paint, Painting, Perception, Photography, Social History, Vancouver, Visual Field
It feels like the Internet has killed the fun of taking snapshots of beautiful cities and people. So many times over the last four months in Mexico I’ve raised my camera (phone) to capture an impressive bronze sculpture or some baroque church facade then...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 16, 2015 | Color, Colour, Distracts, Grid, Painting, Psychedelic, Quilt, Textile, Visual Field
Gotta love Salvation Army and the staff’s peculiar display choices. Every other store would break up all the retail items so each one looks unique, but at my local Salarmy they sort by colour, making finding your size sort of a crapshoot. But oh, that visual...
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