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Those Were The Days - Amherst. Another 4x5 for #preshrunk2019 opening next week (Jan 25 thru Feb 19). Apparently over 400 little gems! #plasterandwax #argylefineartgallery #halifaxns #smallworks #newwork #jjwordendotcom
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Making progress with this one. The others? Not so much. I wonder if anyone else gets part way through a series and loses momentum. I sometimes forget why I started it (the series) in the first place. Or my original exploration has been rendered moot. Or on rare occasions, my questions answered. I guess my task is to find something new to add, draw out, of them regardless of how I'm currently feeling. More likely I should just check my brain at the (studio) door. #artistlife #keepthedogrunning #plasterandwax #studiomusings
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Ghosts of Summer (23wx21l . plaster and wax on plywood) this piece has been hanging on my studio wall for long enough. thing is, it feels almost too personal to go out into the Real World. and yet. I've reached the point of saturation of ME on my house walls. so I'm asking ... does this feel too personal for YOU to hang on your wall? could you connect to it without knowing *my* backstory? (fwiw I'm not asking if you'd buy it, but if you could live with it. if that makes any sense at all) #plasterandwax #toopersonal #couldyoulivewiththis #newwork #artistlife
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So these l'il nuggets were accepted into Argyle Fine Art Gallery's Pre-Shrunk Show starting on January 25 through February 16. Not just for locals as they feature it online too. .... These are all scans of early 1900s Nova Scotia postcards (from RtoL ... top: Lunenburg, Dartmouth, Herring Cove. bottom: Northwest Arm, Amherst) on plaster&gessoed plywood topped with wax medium. Some are marked under the wax. Some on top of the wax. Some have both. With acrylic paint bringing out details. They are chunky little dudes and I hope you love'em as much as I enjoyed making them! #preshrunk2019 #argylefineart #plasterandwax #newwork #artistlife
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Why is it the longer one puts off posting the harder it is to click that button? The brain monkeys start to chatter ...that's not good enough! why bother? no one cares... until the internal shrieking outweighs anything. everything. Happy 2019 Friends. How were YOUR holidays? #artistlife #lakelife #happynewyear2019
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Little experiments on birch rounds. As per usual as soon as I started I knew what improvements I'd make next time. #plasterandwax #birchrounds #handmade #newwork
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'castle on the hill' Taken from a 1900s photo of @meadowoodns. Someday @tjwrdnr82 @ajslnwh you can take it up the hill. For now it reminds us from whence we came. #plasterandwax #meadowood #lakehouse #lifewithart #newwork
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Hanging up to live with for a bit before calling it done. Great quote from @runelazuli : do not apologize for the madness which made you a warrior. That's @myacadianforest's Dad and Aunt on the Harley during their cross-country trip after the war. Thus one will be hanging in our hallway. #plasterandwax #storytelling #familystories #canadianartists #newwork
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Home: What Has Been Carefully Hidden I'm learning that I can make pleasant looking pieces which may still have a darker meaning. Who says ya can't teach old dogs new tricks?!? #series #newwork
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I decided an older piece needs to be part of this 'home' series which meant I needed another to 'odd it up'. So here is : January 1968 I think it really rounds out the series. I'll take a photo of them all together tomorrow. Á demain. #whathasbeencarefullyhidden #series #plasterandwax #newwork
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The 4 corners of my studio. Taken in between projects so it's (relatively) tidy. I cannot tell you what a joy it is to walk into this (warm AND bright) space every morning. Should I die today I will be a happywoman. #artistlife #newstudio #ilovewhatido #thanksgiving
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'hiraeth' from the 'what has been hidden' series. If you get a chance google the pronunciation and if you're lucky it will be spoken in that swoony welsh accent. The meaning is similar to the Portuguese saudade, a homesickness for what was though may never have actually existed. A feeling I get a lot in these dreary late fall days. #hiraeth #plasterandwax #storytelling #newwork
