C L A S S E S 2012

•December 20, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Here is my teaching schedule for classes in 2012. Things will be added as the year unfolds. For now these are confirmed dates.

JANUARY 13-15: Dallas Texas. 3 Day Sculptural Doll Worshop

Contact Babette Cox : babette@babettecox.com

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MAY 19-21: Toronto Ontario: Polymer Clay Doll Level one

Contact Kate Church : katechurch.ns@gmail.com

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JULY 2-6:    Haliburton School of the Arts: The Art of Dollmaking : Beginner Level

JULY 9-13:  Haliburton School of the Arts: The Art of Dollmaking : Intermediate and Advanced Levels

Contact:  haliburtonschoolofthearts.ca

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There are plans for intermediate level classes in Oshawa in the late spring/early summer and Chester Nova Scotia in mid July early August.

Dates will be added once things are confirmed.

I will come and teach wherever you are. I do not do on-line classes as I prefer to work directly with everyone and see the work evolving. It is too much fun in person to do it any other way.! I require a minimum of eight  and  a maximum of twelve to travel…

q u e P A S A y M A N Y A N A …

•April 15, 2012 • Leave a Comment

M A N Y A N A . . .

 

May is around the corner which springs my life into five months of teaching and travelling… Ontario is first on the list and although the classes are filled no doubt a few spots will open up …

If you are interested please let me know!!

I am also doing an introductory class in Chester Nova Scotia in July as well as an Inspired Doll Workshop in Northern California in September! Watch for info and dates soon!!

 

 

q u e   P A S A . . .

 

This has been an amazing winter for me as an artist. I have indulged my artistic heart and felt inspired by everything I have been involved in.

I have loved this creative time and feel I have begun to blend my many practices into a connected body of work….it may take a while before it fully surfaces…but I am excited to see it happenning here  in my incubation place … San Miguel … where my simple world pulls out the best in me.

Here is a series called BLUE SKY  … a set of drawings from life class used to create three copper etchings which were embellished with oil paint and collage….

and for a final image…a painting that combines my trademark characters with a canvas…it is a learning piece and is still being painted…but it shows the beginning of the connection between my sculptural figures and the marks I make….

Tra laH …..!

 

M E X I C O

•March 11, 2012 • Leave a Comment

My life here is a whirwind and sweeps me  into a land of creative exploration and development…

I arrived mid January and within days have been happily swallowed by opportunities to work in studios with other artists doing what I love most…learning.

D R A W I N G

P R I N T M A K I N G

sorry about the reflection the glass is already there…

P A I N T I N G  and M I X E D  M E D I A

and…Jewelry which I have just begun to play with…

I am playing with four of my passions and loving every minute although a bit tired at times when social activiies are added to the energy I pour into my pactice here. It is the season of the snow birds and we are all here…many wonderful friends gathered over an amazing number of years being here…in fabulous, beautiful San Miguel de Allende

..so if I am slow responding to mail or have forgotten you somehow, please write and I will do my best to respond asap…the world is spinning under my feet but there is magic in my pencil I have not seen before!

T h e D A L L A S W o r k s h o p

•January 25, 2012 • 1 Comment

We had a great class!!!

I made a little poster from the workshop. It has taken me an entire week to be able to post it. We are now in Mexico and have had difficulty getting the internet connection to work… I forgot that things are not the same here as they are in my little house in Canada and we often encounter new and interesting surprises…

I love being here in my other life … and this is just part of being here. so I am reminded there is always   . . . M A N Y A N A . . .

H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S …

•December 25, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who helped make this year so amazing!!!…My students ,you know how you inspired me … to my patrons ,who continue to support the changes I continue to make in my work and life … to my wonderful friends, who listen, support and are eternally patient..and whom I depend on…to my deep loves who never fail to surprise and amaze me. ..love truly does grow…

There were travels to Europe, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa,  Haliburtion, San Diego, and let’s not forget my other home, Mexico!!!

I had two shows …

one of my recent miniature work  in the deep chambers of a castle in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic which was so visually beautiful it made my knees wobble when I saw it…

http://www.castle.ckrumlov.cz/img.php?img=atr47i16&LANG=en

the other here in the Lunenburg Art Gallery with my colleague Merydie Fjarlie an amazing Gold Thread artist.  A playful, witty show called “A Certain Mentality”

http://lunenburgregion.ca/index.php/entries/thing-to-do/merydie-fjarlie-studio-gallery/

Merydie's piece: First Pour

…I showed my new procelain vessels for the first time and they were very well received…created from my life drawings named for the show  appropriately ” N U D I T E A “…

I expanded this process throughout the summer and fall and using my drawings (HOORAY) and cutting them into linoleum to make print forms I created a lovely pile of work for the One of a Kind Show…and sold almost all of them… thanks thanks thanks to my many lovely and gracious patrons at this annual show I have been part of for eighteen years….

So, the year has been so amazing…leaving me exhausted and quite spent creatively but excited to draw and print over the winter in anticipation of the new figures and vessels I will discover in 2012…!

What  fun it has been…again, THANK YOU!!!

Best wishes from me and my funny little cast of characters for a Happy New Year!!!

smiling … kate~

a Y E A R in the M A K I N G . . .

•November 21, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Red Bird Blue

Red Bird Blue

so…I write at last.

There has been no time to write and post which is why this never happens. If I did not make every single thing myself I might have a life that had time for this stuff that is so important for those that want to see into my studio and work from everywhere…

Bag Lady Commission

SOOO sorry is all I can say. I promise to do a catch up letter when I get home in two weeks (or three) and fill in the other two shows I had this year with some images…and some of the development I am involved in to create the new ceramics I call V E S S E L S …

These are very dynamic years for me as I work intensley to combine all of the facilities I have practiced over these many years.

Fragility

Fragility

B U T presently we are about to begin the One of a Kind annual show I have done for almost twenty years…!

The B I G Show

The B I G Show

It is harder to do all the time and I must admit I have never gotten good at it. Mostly because I make it all new every year and use it to push myself to bring a body of work that is designed to both be my art and a craft that I can sell reasonably in order to make my living. This show has been good to me, but it has consumed most of my working life for these many years.

I do only five days once a year as far as “shows” go and the fact that I work most of the year to prepare for these days is all you need to know about why I am behind in most things…

Lofty Talkers hand puppets

Lofty Talkers hand puppets

Most would think my life insane, the hours the process the constant building of the next set of tools and equipmen t… but it has built my home and put clothes and food in my life so it must be somehow right for me.

Hatter`s Table

Hatter`s Table night light

Self description: A creator driven by the art of the process…as long as I am learning then I am happily materializing which then equals something to sell in order to make ends meet.

Other definition: If I manage to have a zero balance in my bank account I am doing fine.

E N O U G H words!  on with the images!!!

Picture us in our little station wagon enroute to the show. In the back are the following…

My Little Chickadee

My Little ChickadeeFragility

Statuesque

StatuequeHattea and Birdee street wire pieceGossips Teathose were a few pieces from my show A Certain Mentaliteathis spring...Balloon TeaFlyers IHere are my new miniature pieces from my show this year in the Czech Republic...one day will become jewelry pieces...hmmmm....more work to do...Flyers IIThree AcrobatsAcrobat IAcrobat IIAcrobat Ballet

Now…The N I G H T L I G H T S : little tin boxes with little characters in them. Battery lit they are really cool…
N I G H T L I G H T S
March hare
Alice`s Drink
Cheshire Blue
Tweedles
The Queen and her Hearts
Hatter
White Rabbit Time
Doormousey

…these two are a wee bit larger and do not light. They are hinged tin boxes that move when you lift the hinge…L O V E making these little things!

Sip Sip
Cheshire Blue on the Table

Of course there are a few more but I have run right out of time. We have to get in the car and go now…

I hope this was fun to see!
 
 
Smiling, kate….

W O R K s h o p C A L E N D A R 2011

•January 6, 2011 • Leave a Comment

 

What I know so far…

 

SAN DIEGO, California : Feb 12 and 13th

contact: Susan Berkowitz : susanberkowitz@mac.com

THUNDER BAY, Ontario : May 20 – 22nd

contact: Leslie Bailey : creativeconceptsbyleslie@gmail.com

 

OTTAWA, Ontario : tentative dates: May 28 and 29th

contact: Katuma McLaughlin : katuma@quiltsandseams.com

HALIBURTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS:Haliburton, Ontario

Beginners class: July 11th – 15th

http://www.haliburtonschoolofthearts.ca/index.cfm/go/programs/sub/coursePT/code/013118/sc/HSA/q/sum/style/h.cfm

Intermediate/Advanced: July 18th – 22nd

http://www.haliburtonschoolofthearts.ca/index.cfm/go/programs/sub/coursePT/code/013607/sc/HSA/q/sum/style/h.cfm



or … email for more info…katechurch.ns@gmail.com

All are subject to sufficient registration to run the classes…

I love teaching because you want to know what I know!!

I am looking out my window and a beautiful cardinal is perched in the tree…!

Note To Self: red bird next…

 
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