February 8, 10am–4pm
At ArteMbassy Gallery & School in the Leaside area of Toronto (see map below).

Please join me for this full-day workshop: Through structured exercises and personal exploration, you’ll layer, distress, and work into mixed media and images to integrate and reveal contrasting visual material including painting, drawing, collage, transfers, embedding etc. Be inspired and informed by images and physical samples, with one-on-one consultations and group discussion.
Level: adventurous

​For more information and to register:

ArteMbassy Gallery & School
​Julie McMeekin, Director
(416) 998-5045
28 Industrial Street
Suite #219
Toronto, ON  M4G 1Y9
info@artembassy.ca

Here's a sneak peek at the room I will be installing for this year's In Situ II multi-arts festival: Making Space, Making Place.
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One of my favourite events of all time was the first In Situ festival in 2018, held at the then-abandoned factory space known as the Small Arms Building in Mississauga.

Produced by the Small Arms Society which saved the building from demolition, they were also instrumental in persuading the City of Mississauga to take over ownership of the site (renamed the Small Arms Inspection Building) which means the building is now partially renovated and features heat and running water (and bathrooms!), none of which was true for the first In Situ. Not that that held us back!

When I update this post I will show you a photo of the room I am creating an installation for, happily it's in the old, unrenovated wing – I do so love the decrepit beauty of it!

​Finally, I am planning to do live drawing again each of the three nights from 8-9pm.
​Hope to see you there!

At 2:00pm this Saturday, (May 20), at Otto Art, for my current exhibition 'RADIANTS', I will be painting LIVE in the gallery!

If you're in Toronto for the long weekend come and see the process I developed for my 'Arounded' series, the lush and tactile ways I work with the paint, the tools I use, and how there's a point beyond which I just have to sit back and watch the painting reveal itself (literally!) over the course of days.

I'll show you one of my favourite unconventional painting tools and some of the ways I use it. And of course I will answer questions about that or any of the paintings in the show.

More information in the flyer here. I've included a map in the page about the show (click here).

Please join me for an afternoon that's sure to be interesting!

If you would like to download a pdf of the flyer for the event, here it is:

TWO-DAY WORKSHOP:
June 22 & 23, 2016
9:30am – 4:00pm
​Neilson Park Creative Centre
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​Enrich the sensory experience of your paintings by pushing the paint out from the flatness of the canvas or panel into delicious relief surfaces we can feel with our eyes, (like work by post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh through l’automatiste Paul-Émile Borduas to contemporary painter Kim Dorland). 

In this two-day workshop, build vivid surfaces in acrylic paintings by developing your skills to create rich and varied textures, sculpt the paint and build up impasto marks. Also learn how to extend the open time so you can work back into the existing paint layer.

Instructor Kim Lee Kho will guide you through creative and technical – and fun! – aspects of working with and modifying acrylics to enhance the third dimension in your work.

Materials fee of $40 (payable to the instructor) includes the acrylic mediums you will need for this workshop, custom-packaged and bought in bulk to save you money and hassle.
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Click here to register.

FALL EXHIBITION:
October 17 – November 13, 2016
​Constantinople Bakery & Coffee
536 Queen Street West, Toronto
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Joint show of paintings with
​Kal Honey
(as yet untitled)

More details to come!

Today was takedown for my Chains Unlinked exhibition at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Hard to believe 2.5 months has passed so quickly!

After the sculpture installations were taken down the biggest job was washing off "Boxed In #21", the big charcoal figure that occupied almost the entire marquee wall.

It was sad to see her go and I had to record her passing into history with some time-lapse photography. I also did the first wiping away, with a wet mop. Thanks to Van for doing all of the real de-install work and to Shellie for inspiring the face.

At the beginning of April I had the pleasure of returning to speak to the Markham Group of Artists. 

My talk, entitled 'Subject to Limitation', was about the origins and experimental nature of my process, and then tracked the history of one idea: how it was born, developed and grew into many branches and forms over the course of years.

Although it was just a talk (with slides) it felt action-packed! 

Loads of good questions came from the packed audience, and I took along a couple of pieces for everyone to get up close to and touch at the end. I'm a tactile person myself so I always appreciate being able to touch or poke something, even with gloves on.

Many thanks to the Markham Group for their warmth and enthusiasm, and to Linda Walesch for the photographs (and Sharon Kirsh for one photo).