by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 8, 2017 | Appropriation, Beauty, Colour, Craft, Craftivism, Cross-stitch, Doilies, Domestic, Embroidery, Fabric, Fashion, Fibre Arts, Garment, Handwork, Inspiration, Making, Needlework, Rug, Semiotics, Sewing, Social History, Textile, Visual Field
MORE THAN DECORATION: Flower images carry deep cultural significance for the Maya. Left: A figure dating from 600-900bc nestled in a lily. Centre: Needlepoint detail from a huipil (top), part of a traditional everyday dress. Right: Jesus emerging from a lily in an oil...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 26, 2017 | Beauty, Creative Process, Environment, Expression, Inspiration, Nature, Visual Field
Foxglove, the flowering tower that rises out of the ashes of forest fires, bursts up from bare earth. (Carlyn Yandle photo) The 91-year-old CEO of the Commonwealth did not deem 2016 another annus horribilis but it was one for the political history books. It seems only...
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 | Apr 17, 2015 | Activism, Culture, Cycling, Environment, Health, Inspiration, Protest, Public Art, Vancouver
There is a symbiotic relationship between art and cycling. For me, I don’t get to work/play in the studio if I don’t get on my bike, and I don’t get my daily dose of hard-pumping exercise if I don’t go to the studio.My father, a career artist and devoted cyclist, has...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 10, 2015 | Inspiration, Motivation, Organization, Storage, Studio, Tools, Vancouver
There was no getting around it — literally. After a few weeks away from the studio I arrived viewing it with fresh yet loathsome eyes. There was no room to move here, let alone swing a cat. It suddenly dawned on me that the reason I bolted is I was enduring...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 27, 2015 | Assemblage, Clay Yandle, Collaboration, Creative Process, Design, Display, Eggbeater Creative, Experimentation, Form, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Marketing, Martha Rosler, Painting, Recycle, Sculpture, Semiotics, Surrealism, Typography, Unfixtures, Upcycling
“Unfixtures”: Found lamp bases, utensils, gesso. I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions.There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects —...
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