Coming Soon...

I know it's still only January, but already there is excitement in the air, my air anyway, about a whole new set of ART happenings in the coming months.

February 5: I've submitted my name for the Varley Gallery Art Battle on this date. http://www.artbattleto.com/#889445/Feb-5-AB-theVarley

March 8 - 20, 2011: Markham Arts Council "Art Show" group show. Markville Mall Loft, Markham ON

March 14 - 28, 2011: Breaking Boundaries, Markham Group of Artists at Art Square, Dundas St. across from AGO, Toronto

April 5 - 29, 2011: Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Exhibition, theme: "Memory". John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto

May 26 - June 5, 2011: Markham Group of Artists Spring Juried Show, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, ON

July 14 - 24, 2011: Ontario Society of Artists Members' Juried Exhibition at Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills

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Yesterday I met with Franklin Beecham, abstract artist, Robyn Craig and with Wilson and Winnie, the two partners at the new Cubbii facility where they offer 24x24 inch cubicles and larger areas for vendors to showcase products. The concept for the vendors is for a short term, low overhead space. We discussed how to show art in this wide-open space that features other areas of specialty items.

Some of my artwork is being tested in what was one of the refrigerated casements and small works on easels on shelves.

We developed some good ideas and are already implementing them.

Frank and I are showing our work, all for sale,

starting with an

Opening Reception on Friday, December 3

from 7 pm to 9 pm.

Light refreshments will be available.

Cubbii Market is located at the corner of Kennedy Road and The Bridle Trail, just south of 16th Avenue. Drop in and see us during the Opening Reception.

Today I am asking the energies of the universe to pass on my deep apologies for intruding in someone's life. I knew not what I did but it was basely selfish. I am in the process of learning a life's lesson because of this. Will it make me a better artist? That's not the point here. What it seems to be doing is opening my mind. My heart is crying at the pain I have caused. I am so sorry.

New Website Announcement

My new web site is up as of yesterday. Since you, the reader, have probably been to my website and clicked on the My Blog buttons you know what the web site is about.

Thank you very much for coming to this page. It is a much less formal way of letting my friends and clients learn what is happening with Audra's Art. I post irregularly but I imagine that will change as more people sign up.

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I want to thank Allen Class so much for teaching me how to control my own website and this blog. He's got a great new site at ArtGoneGlobal

How things happen

Things happen. Sometimes we even find out why.

I like to think that things happen for a purpose. You know, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears." We are rarely in such "presence of mind" so we don't know if the horse has come or left. Or the egg...

But some things do happen for a purpose that becomes visible. Yesterday, Jim Allen was describing someone's work and wrote at one point, she was "figuring out the references of her philosophy and choices...."

Here's the thing: I commit Art as often as possible. If you are an artist, you know how awful it feels when you are blocked. Although I've got many other artistic activities in which I am involved, I wanna paint when I wanna paint. So I diddle around by putting a new streak here or there. Doesn't finish the art piece though.

So we artists walk around the work table until something kicks us where it counts and at last we sing out "Hallelujah" because we have just been presented with the hammer with which to break the block.

The above quote caught me because I continually find satisfaction using text in my art; from the title to text in the piece. I have added text onto the bottom of mats; made hand made books with text printed on vellum; used many common techniques to include text. I have figured out another way to incorporate words. All because someone sent me an email. Thanks for the hammer, Jim.

This is when we know things can be right in this world.

Something new every day

I love it when serendipitous things happen. I've just been on holiday and did a little drawing, a little photography.... Have you ever actually missed working at your job? It must mean that it is not a job, it is what you are supposed to be doing. I am doing what I love. And it pays off in some interesting ways. I've just sold two paintings that I like. I am glad they are going to an appreciative home.

I am still working on fine tuning my new web site and decided part of that "marketing" should include more exposure on Facebook. I don't like Facebook, though. It takes up a lot of time.

In some circuitous way, one of my friends is also a friend of an artist who I met many, many years ago. His fashion photography was so enticing, I used to shop in the stores he photographed for. I introduced myself on FB, reminding him of people that it turns out we both know - or knew. A boyfriend once said that Photography was a very small world. And so it is. You know someone I know.

I find it exciting that this happens. And I f ind it exciting that I have reconnected with someone who didn't know me personally, but who remembers the people I knew back then - one of the most exciting periods of my life.

Photo art started for me then.