July 31, 2013
April 13, 2011
Another Workshop!
I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by this year! It is exciting to look back and see the work many of my artist friends have created this year ... I wish I could say I had as good of a year. Some setbacks since last summer but things are on track again and I am happy to be travelling back to Jasper over the Easter weekend to present a workshop on Watercolour/Encaustic Fusion.
Encaustic has been my medium for the last 11 years. I love it! I love the colours, the beautiful subtle surfaces and textures, the hidden depths and even the smell and the heat of it.
Last summer I took a multi-media figurative workshop with watercolour artist Jean Pederson (Summer Series Red Deer College 2010). The course was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed getting back into watercolour painting. The kicker came when Jean invited me to bring my encaustic setup into the studio and I started to experiment with bringing the two together. There is a lot of exploration possible in the fusion of these two incredible mediums. The rest of the year (despite those pesky setbacks) have been devoted to a new series playing with watercolour, encaustic and antique science testbooks. I hope to have the series ready to show by Fall 2011. I am excited to share what I have learned with friends in Jasper (and environs) during the JAG workshop. I am also bringing a few new paintings for the Brushfire Gallery so take a peek if you're curious to see some of my new work.
Encaustic has been my medium for the last 11 years. I love it! I love the colours, the beautiful subtle surfaces and textures, the hidden depths and even the smell and the heat of it.
Last summer I took a multi-media figurative workshop with watercolour artist Jean Pederson (Summer Series Red Deer College 2010). The course was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed getting back into watercolour painting. The kicker came when Jean invited me to bring my encaustic setup into the studio and I started to experiment with bringing the two together. There is a lot of exploration possible in the fusion of these two incredible mediums. The rest of the year (despite those pesky setbacks) have been devoted to a new series playing with watercolour, encaustic and antique science testbooks. I hope to have the series ready to show by Fall 2011. I am excited to share what I have learned with friends in Jasper (and environs) during the JAG workshop. I am also bringing a few new paintings for the Brushfire Gallery so take a peek if you're curious to see some of my new work.
March 30, 2010
On April 24 and 25 I will be presenting a workshop on new encaustic techniques. The workshop will be in Jasper, Alberta at the beautiful Brushfire Gallery.
Last summer I studied Encaustic Painting at Spiro Arts Centre, in Utah, with R&F Paint's amazing Daniella Woolf. I learned a lot of new techniques and Daniella gave me some invaluable advice about focus and really inspired me to continue painting.
This workshop will allow me to pass on some of the things I learned and, I hope, to inspire participants to experiment with this wonderful media. Hope to see you there!!
Last summer I studied Encaustic Painting at Spiro Arts Centre, in Utah, with R&F Paint's amazing Daniella Woolf. I learned a lot of new techniques and Daniella gave me some invaluable advice about focus and really inspired me to continue painting.
This workshop will allow me to pass on some of the things I learned and, I hope, to inspire participants to experiment with this wonderful media. Hope to see you there!!
March 19, 2010
if design govern in a thing so small
If design govern in a thing so small
I am so excited about this show in Jasper....especially since I will be doing an encaustic workshop for JAG later in April (more info to follow). When I started this series I knew I wanted it to be about the inherent beauty of design that exists in nature. The spiral of a shell, the strength and fragility of a bird’s wing, the symmetry of a star fish, even the interesting structures of spore… the wonder of how perfectly designed things are, not just to fit into their ecological niche but how, in evolving into an organism that becomes what it needs to be to survive, beauty has become part of its intrinsic design.
Spiral Meditation - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
I had started the series based on these ideas when I came across Robert Frost’s poem Design. The poem preoccupied me as I worked on my paintings with the question of what role design, or divine intention, plays in the evolution of beauty in nature… is beauty (the white spider, flower and moth coming together in the night) even if cruel, planned and executed by an exterior force (the divine) or is it just incidental? The question I ask myself is the last line of the Frost poem: does design govern in a thing so small?
Thinking About Maple - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
As an artist, intention or design, is part of the process of creating. These paintings are interactions between the beauty of the image from nature and the created, designed beauty from the hand of the artist.
Significant Discovery (A Long Time Ago) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 20" x 16" - $640
Encaustic is the perfect medium to express this concept. While creating an encaustic painting the artist works not only with a two dimensional surface, composition and colour, but also with heating and cooling; abandoning images deep under layers of wax and laying down new images over them; choosing one image over another because of theme, colour or just intuition. The painting changes over time and sometimes earlier ideas lie buried in the painting’s past. Sometimes a happy accident will create a beautiful mark but just as often a mistake results in having to scrape away or cover up an area. There are always decisions to make about composition, form, colour, contrast and balance.
Beauty is achieved from a series of decisions from the mind and hand of the artist. I think that design does govern even in Frost’s dark drama of the spider, the flower and the moth in the night.
A sample of the works that will be exhibited:
Prediction of Jaunty Gold (Goldfinch) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Reappearance of Designated Sprightliness (Robin) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage -
I am so excited about this show in Jasper....especially since I will be doing an encaustic workshop for JAG later in April (more info to follow). When I started this series I knew I wanted it to be about the inherent beauty of design that exists in nature. The spiral of a shell, the strength and fragility of a bird’s wing, the symmetry of a star fish, even the interesting structures of spore… the wonder of how perfectly designed things are, not just to fit into their ecological niche but how, in evolving into an organism that becomes what it needs to be to survive, beauty has become part of its intrinsic design.
Spiral Meditation - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512I had started the series based on these ideas when I came across Robert Frost’s poem Design. The poem preoccupied me as I worked on my paintings with the question of what role design, or divine intention, plays in the evolution of beauty in nature… is beauty (the white spider, flower and moth coming together in the night) even if cruel, planned and executed by an exterior force (the divine) or is it just incidental? The question I ask myself is the last line of the Frost poem: does design govern in a thing so small?
Thinking About Maple - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512Design
by Robert Frost
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.
As an artist, intention or design, is part of the process of creating. These paintings are interactions between the beauty of the image from nature and the created, designed beauty from the hand of the artist.
Significant Discovery (A Long Time Ago) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 20" x 16" - $640Encaustic is the perfect medium to express this concept. While creating an encaustic painting the artist works not only with a two dimensional surface, composition and colour, but also with heating and cooling; abandoning images deep under layers of wax and laying down new images over them; choosing one image over another because of theme, colour or just intuition. The painting changes over time and sometimes earlier ideas lie buried in the painting’s past. Sometimes a happy accident will create a beautiful mark but just as often a mistake results in having to scrape away or cover up an area. There are always decisions to make about composition, form, colour, contrast and balance.
Beauty is achieved from a series of decisions from the mind and hand of the artist. I think that design does govern even in Frost’s dark drama of the spider, the flower and the moth in the night.
A sample of the works that will be exhibited:
Prediction of Jaunty Gold (Goldfinch) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Reappearance of Designated Sprightliness (Robin) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Mellow Reverberation (Echo 2) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Ethereal Journey Over Rustic lands (Barn Swallow) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage -
Mellow Reverberation (Echo 2) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Ethereal Journey Over Rustic lands (Barn Swallow) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
"Buzz" in the Meadow (Meadowlark) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
L'air, son ami - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Left: Fifi voletant - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Right: Raconter les points - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Ainsi continuer - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Left: Sans doute pour me laisser le choix - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Right: Gentillesses désagréables - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Left: Anatomy of a Polliwog Princess - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Right: Mr. Toad Considers His Spine - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Evolution of Luminous Energy #1 - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Evolution of Luminous Energy #2 - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
La Reine des abeilles (I and II) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Upper left: Coquillage glissant - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Upper right: Coquillage cloche - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Centre: Existence de luxe - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Elegant Revelation - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Luminous Secret (diagrams a to d) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Idealized Spore in 4 parts (#1 - #4) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Transparent Spore (Arcane Knowledge) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Spore Diagram with Incidental Joy - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Works will be exhibited in Jasper from April 2nd to April 18th. I hope you can be at the opening on April 2nd or catch the show later in the month. If you have any questions please contact me at: mariebanville@hotmail.com or call (403) 872-0701.
"Buzz" in the Meadow (Meadowlark) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
L'air, son ami - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Left: Fifi voletant - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128Right: Raconter les points - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Ainsi continuer - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Left: Sans doute pour me laisser le choix - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128Right: Gentillesses désagréables - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Left: Anatomy of a Polliwog Princess - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128Right: Mr. Toad Considers His Spine - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Evolution of Luminous Energy #1 - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Evolution of Luminous Energy #2 - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
La Reine des abeilles (I and II) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Upper left: Coquillage glissant - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128Upper right: Coquillage cloche - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Centre: Existence de luxe - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128
Elegant Revelation - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512
Luminous Secret (diagrams a to d) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Idealized Spore in 4 parts (#1 - #4) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 8" x 8" - $128 each
Transparent Spore (Arcane Knowledge) - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 20" - $640
Spore Diagram with Incidental Joy - Marie Banville - Encaustic Collage - 16" x 16" - $512Works will be exhibited in Jasper from April 2nd to April 18th. I hope you can be at the opening on April 2nd or catch the show later in the month. If you have any questions please contact me at: mariebanville@hotmail.com or call (403) 872-0701.
June 8, 2009
Older Work...
These are pieces from 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. I know this is not a very unified represention but these are some motifs that I would like to continue to explore - I post them for my own benefit - to help me put together some ideas for my next move forward...
Life Changing Experience?
Lately I have been asking myself what direction I want my art to go - Should a life changing experience also change the direction my art has been moving or should I continue with what I have been doing. I love painting the colours and textures of the Alberta landscape but have been feeling an urge to return to some earlier motifs and try to work them out more completely.
My mother died in April and this profound experience of losing the person who was my first tie to the earth, my first loved one and the person who largely shaped who I have become, has left me hungry to delve back into ritual and fairy tales. I am going to post some old work on this blog and then, from there, try to develop the images and archetypes in a deeper, more intuitive way.
My mother died in April and this profound experience of losing the person who was my first tie to the earth, my first loved one and the person who largely shaped who I have become, has left me hungry to delve back into ritual and fairy tales. I am going to post some old work on this blog and then, from there, try to develop the images and archetypes in a deeper, more intuitive way.
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