NEWSLETTER

While I have been doing collage for some time this painting is a new approach. It is primarily torn paper from magazines and newspaper plus some commercial papers I had on hand. I have used this technique a few times before but never on a human face - but admire the work of several artists who do - especially Derek Gores - so thought I would give it a try. It was a lot harder than I thought but glad I persisted. Hope you enjoy.

Back from NYC and Washington DC -- saw lots and lots of fabulous art and took many photo's for inspiration. During the trip I read "The Painted Girls" by Cathy Marie Buchanan and in the notes at the end it said that the original wax and cloth sculpture of the ballerina age 14 by Degas was in the National Gallery in Washington DC. What a treat as we had planned to go to that Gallery the very next morning! I have included a couple of photo's of this sculpture below - it was so beautiful.

I have also added a few photo's of NYC below

CFAI Magazine

I was also pleased to find that some of my mixed media work was select to be included in the June 2013 CFAI Visual Language Magazine. It is on page 134. Go to the links page if you want to see it and click on Current Visual Language Magazine.

Please check out the travelling art exhibition put on by the GoGo's for African Grandmothers as part of fundraising for the Stephen Lewis foundation. There are 40 paintings and textile art pieces in this lovely show, I donated the painting below called Grandmother Zimbabwe.

Our show is over and I am off to NYC and Washington DC next week. Again thanks to all the people that attended our show - stayed tuned for new paintings in the months to come.

I posted a number of photo's yesterday and realized that there were a lot of people at the reception I did not get pictures of. So sorry to all of those we didn't capture --- AND here is one that I forgot to post and it is one of my favorites.

Thanks to everyone who came to the party yesterday or who has dropped by the show or send their best wishes. I have posted a number of photo's from the reception on my blog so take a look. www.lindabell.ca/blog

The show continues to April 28th.

Check out the matching strips below.

We hung the show yesterday and opened today. Here is some photo's of the gallery and of my paintings. There is lots to see in this show.

I have now added my last painting on Canvas to the 4 Women 4 Stories gallery called "Twitter"

In addition there are several paintings on paper that will be available at the show as shown below.

"The Attitude"

"Ostrich Crossing"

"Stutting his Stuff"

"The Garden"

Please click on the links page which has a link to the Delta Optimist on our upcoming April 4 Women, 4 Stories Show.