by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 20, 2013 | Collaboration, Color, Colour, Creative Process, Expression, Maker, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Playing, Process
What movie first rocked your world?, someone asked during a recent dinner with friends. Easy: 2001: A Space Odyssey, said one. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, said another, clearly remembering her fear.Mine was The Wizard of Oz. Never mind the munchkins and the flying...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 6, 2013 | Color, Colour, Commission, Creative Process, Design, Graffiti, Industry, Installation, Paint, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Pattern, Process, Project, Public Art, Quilt, Safety, Street Art
I could never understand why the armies of construction workers in this town would head for the Wendy’s or Burger King over a nutritious, fresh soup and salad next door. That was before I started spending long days under a respirator spraypainting in a cavern of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 16, 2013 | Additive, Art, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Fabric, Fiber, Graffiti, Inspiration, Installation, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Public Art, Quilt, Street Art, Textile, Visual Field
This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years: blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Art School, Artist Statement, Craft, Crafts, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, ECUAD, Fabric, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Flo, Found Objects, Fractal, Gallery, Handwork, Installation, Liz Magor, Maker, Net, Painting, Ravages, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Use Object, Wrap I, Wrap II
Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 18, 2013 | Gallery, Openings, Painting, Vancouver
It’s a quandary, going to a commercial-gallery show opening for the likes of Important Canadian Artist Attila Richard Lukacs. I’m a short person and this is a small art town, which means I end up confronting a lot of chests and backs in what is always a crush, because...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 28, 2012 | Art, Gallery, Inspiration, Painting, Vancouver
Mukai has been quietly working and reworking her paintings and drawings for 30 years. Painting feels a lot like grasping for words to me. There’s general comprehension there, thanks to some study, but I don’t have enough command of my own visual language to express...
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