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 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 | 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 12, 2015 | Architecture, Artist, Environment, Photography, Visual Field
I really want to believe our Prime Minister’s — what, pledge? Hope? Prediction? — that we will be a fossil-fuel-free nation by the year 2100, as he told the rest of the Gang of 7 at their Bavarian get-together last week.But any hope I have for a truly green-fueled...
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