Hello Dear Art Lover

Were you ready for this?!!

I sure wasn’t ready. The trees weren’t either. As I write this it is still snowing here in Toronto. Of course I hadn’t done any yard clean up or putting away the summer furniture. Let’s hope it all melts soon.

Last Thursday was Day One of my new course ‘Exploring Layers: GelPrints and Collage’ and we had such a fun time. I’ll be starting another course in the new year, so please keep it in mind. Perhaps as a gift for someone you know who loves to create.

If you’d like a fun time making your own holiday cards, I will teach gel printing on Fri Nov 28 and Sat Nov 29 in my studio. You’ll make 6 cards and learn the basics of this simple and fun way to share your creativity. Cost is $65.00 for 3 hours of play in my studio. Space is limited.

There are 5 horses galloping in the Riverdale Hub Gallery! David at the Hub has added ‘Eddie’s Horses’ to the cafe and my painting ‘TheDawning of the Age of Aquarius’ to the co-working space. This delightful gallery is full of light and innovation, located on Gerrard St E. near Greenwood Ave.
https://riverdalehub.ca › riverdale-hub-gallery

We’ve set the date for our Holiday Open Studio for Sun Dec 7, noon to 5pm. This year you’ll be able to visit the Labatt Studio Artists and the GWA studio artists. We are hoping that the other artists in the building will join too. There will also be artwork by the bros Fox and Theo.

You might know that I am a bibliomaniac as well as a logophile (not to be confused with a sesquipedalian). While I’m on this subject I also confess to pareidolia which is related to apophonia. I’m sure when you look up pareidolia you’ll get the connection to my art. I was very happy to learn that my ‘condition’ is incurable and will happily continue to create more weird art. All this to say that I read a wonderful book about Francis Picabia, an avant garde artist I’d never heard of who is associated with Dada. The book is ‘Gabriele’ written by Clare and Anne Berest. Let me know if you like it. And as usual, I’m always looking for your favourite new books.

Til the next time, keep living artfully.

ROCK ON,

Gail