Returning to Sandhills Park to draw with artist, Linda Duvall who is here with her project from August 28 to September 8, 2023. During my time in June the white pines over looking the hole beckoned me to draw them.
chalk pastel
Thank you to Inter Art Matrix for choosing me to be in this project. I recognize the funding received by Inter Arts Matrix from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.
Sandhills Park is a common land feature in this region. More sand hills in Doon.
Places for cleaning water.
The sand in the Hole was soft to lie on. Conforming and holding the body. Dandelions and grasses bordering the top edges, leaves being backlit offering their form and glow. Around the Hole, along the nearby cement pad were anthill holes, with busy ants. I wonder how deep they went.
I enjoyed the colours of the soil layers and wanted to present a view from the Hole. Clouds, trees and the bordering growth of grasses, dandelions and other “weeds”. For every hole there is the soil pile, even for the ants, that changed with rain, footsteps and the curiosity of visitors.
A place for individuals, birds, animals, clumps of grass and many walnut trees. I saw rabbits, robins, ants and watched many people eating from the mulberry tree while talking on there cell phone.
North side of holeAnt hills amongst the dandelionsPassing cloudsClump of American elms under one of the many walnuts in this park.Lying in the hole looking up at the border of weeds, trees and clouds.Every hole needs its pile of earth.
Thank you to Inter Art Matrix for choosing me to be in this project. I recognize the funding received by Inter Arts Matrix from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.
Enjoyed my time at Sandhills Park in Kitchener with Inter Arts Matrix Project ‘A Hole in the Ground’ Listen to Isabella Stefanescu and I discuss the project with Martin de Groot.
It is time to celebrate and share work from this past fall and winter, made with the support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
Colours have fascinated me all my life. In these works I used colour in a non-objective way, searching for “inwardness”. This way of working has helped me develop mindfulness – I am also beginning to understand self care.
During this time the unknowable in these images frightened me. I often felt lost in their presence, anxious: what are they saying?
Now this project is coming to an end. Curating the documentation of this work has helped me find some meaning in the journey. There is gratitude, and peace that feels earned.
I appreciate the support from the Region Waterloo Arts Fund.
I appreciate the grant from Region of Waterloo Arts Fund for their support for my project: “So Nature deals with us, and takes away”. This research is based in a practice, which supports consciousness as creative. The practice will delve into the sense faculties to communicate in visual terms truthful pragmatic observations, hopefully also involving moments of laughter. It will allow me to draw/paint/research qualities of “inwardness”.
It is about aging and loss, expressing my inner self through non-objective imagery. Beginning a glimpse of vocabulary.
This posting is in lieu of an Open House held in my studio. This grouping comes from an interest in the travels of the moon as viewed from my studio in its various presentations and of the passing of the seasons. They express a sense of wonder with nature and my urban location. Most are painted on washi, a Japanese paper made from Kozo fibre or on silk with opaque watercolour called gouache that I have grown to love. Titles, medium, size and price follow each image. Best of the Season during these times.
October 3, 2020 9:32pm, gouache/washi , 7″ x 10″ , $7OO unfSeptember 26, 2020 8:40pm, gouache/washi, 7″ x 10″, $400 unfJuly 6, 2020 12:13am, gouache/silk, 6.5″ x 8.5″, $400 unfDecember 12, 2019 7:35pm, gouache/washi, 13.5″ x 9″, $750 unfDecember 24, 2018 4:50pm, gouache/washi, 9″ x 10″, $625 unfApril 9, 2016 9:20pm, gouache/washi, 12″ x 9″, $700 unfJune 20, 2014 3:55am, gouache/paper, 6″ x 6″, $225 unfDecember 20, 2012, gouache/silk, 3.25″ x 2.75″, $160
Robert Achtemichuk 