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People who attended the 2018 Harmony Arts Festival wore both casual or fancy clothing; the variety was amazing, as can be seen in this photo! The person in the fancy outfit likes to wear various costumes to this event; aand is quite flamboyant, but normally wears regular clothing. Wearing this over jeans and living in our neighbourhood. I took this shot as I liked the lovely outfit for this occasion. It appears the lady who manages the booth likes it too.
Saw this in the back of a car window while on my walk a few days ago here in DDO. It looks like a stuffed toy Octopus.
This art object shows the "Neanderthal-Man".
The Neandertal (Valley of the Neander-creek), near Mettmann, is an archaeological find of the Neanderthals.
Wishing Each and Everyone Very Happy Holidays and a Very Joyful and Happy Season, no matter what Holiday you celebrate.
I hope that 2015 will be a great year for all my Flickr friends.
An interesting arrangement at the front door of this home. The bench is a nice touch to sit on and enjoy the flowers in bloom.
Another figure on the railing of my brother's balcony in a suburb of Montreal. I just loved this one; how can you not be in a good mood when seeing this big grin? You've made my Day!
This one was in a tree near a small shopping mall and it looked really great. Too bad it was not a real out but just a model of one, I think made of wood. I have no idea why this Owl Sculpture was put in this tree as it did not seem to serve any purpose in that area. My next door neighbours had one on their balcony to discourage the pigeons, so maybe it was for the same purpose here.
In today's world, just about everyone has and uses a cell phone. Took this shot near the window in a Cafe in West Vancouver, BC.
I used a digital program on my camera to get this effect, in part as an experiment and also I did not want to show her full face.
I have some clear ornaments for our Christmas tree, as this angel which is against a blue light, and some deer also. They make nice ornaments as they pick up the colours of the lights on the Christmas tree that they are close to.
It was another very successful Festival Season in West Vancouver, BC this year and lasted for 2 weeks. Weather co-operated and all the crowds were able to enjoy the various events, bands, displays and artifacts for sale. All this was held in our local park by the water in West Vancouver, BC.I think I only missed one or two days in attending.
Interesting preparation beside one of the local garden plots. Someone is prepared now that spring has come to do some planting. Notice the cute wagon in the shape of a turtle wearing a yellow hard hat!
This painting in black and white mixed media was done by my very dear and long time friend Noel in Montreal. There is quite a history regarding this young girl, but it's much too long to describe here. Sadly his similar colour painting of the girl was stolen recently.
I had permission to upload this photo taken by Noel personally when I saw him while I was in Montreal in March 2017.
This table setting is outdoors by a well known Persian Store in our local area. You can have tea and delicacies here, or stop inside for tea instead, as well as pick up something delicious to take home.
Some of it even looks charred as if burned in a fire. I can see some funny critter shapes in these pieces of wood also. I think the wood pieces are from different types of trees; I found them piled together on the beach. Kids usually do this.
Part of the advertising everywhere for the past 2 weekends of our Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver. It is free and held every year. It was quite exceptional this year in the park areas with great attendance at many concerts, movies, art works, food stalls, etc. and close to the beautiful sea walk.
Local Newspaper Clipping: on left, this was my first art teacher, Shirley Smith of Montreal. She eventually moved to BC and I used to visit her there. She died just a few years ago after I had come back to Montreal, I think she was 94. I miss her more than I can say and am sad as I did not see her again nor had said goodbye. We were great friends for over 50 years and her husband was the guidance counsellor who effectively got me to go back to school and eventually get my BA degree from Rutgers Univ. in NJ. There a US Bachelor degree requires you must also have a Science course, a Math course and at least a second language! I was so proud to graduate with my US BA, majoring in Arts. On right is another artist, Irene Smallwood in dark jacket and myself in striped T-shirt. We are pointing to our paintings; mine above sold, they were red poppies and I think the other painting below of a Quebec Village scene by Mrs. Smallwood sold also. We used to hold regular Art Displays to sell our Paintings, sometimes in our Studio or else in Fairview Mall in Pte. Claire, a suburb of Montreal, as shown above.
The log is floating in the ocean water with a rock balanced on it. Amazing that it hasn't fallen off.
This white sculpted hand was in a local garden in West Vancouver, BC and I often wondered what, if any, its significance was supposed to be as a finger is also missing. To warn you? There was nothing planted! Halloween to come?
my art studio
some thoughts about my studio to share with you all:
since i write a lot, and i enjoy getting to know flickr artists and have you know me i wanted to share my studio with you all....and...i love my studio (which i designed myself) and wanted you all to see it.
background: i have always had a studio. when i was very young i painted on the kitchen table (i'm sure we all did...and maybe still do!). in every home we've had, i have had a studio. in our first apartment i painted on the floor in the t.v. room. i was more "supple" then, so down on the floor worked for my knees! when we lived in italy and twice in germany our apartments were large enough for me to have my own room for making art. when neal and i first bought our house here (years ago) i was creating 2d art, mostly acrylic painting. i also was a part owner/artist in a gallery on conn. ave (in washington, dc, usa) working in stained glass. since i was cutting glass i needed a hard floor surface (easier to clean up). the downstairs of our house lent itself to this and i was happy there. then off to heidelberg, germany for 12 years. when we returned to the states i was no longer doing stained glass and david (our son) was off at college, so i turned the small upstairs bedroom into my studio and again spent many happy years in that room. but....i out grew the room! i was making many art pieces, acquiring more objects to use in my art, etc. neal and i had renovated our house twice (i did all the design) and now it was time for the third renovation...turn our huge attic, with very high ceilings, into a studio for me (by the way...we renovated another time after that...the kitchen. four renovations in all! i think we are done now).
so..back to the attic renovation: i knew exactly what i wanted......a studio that would look like a (french) artist atelier.....i did the design, found a contractor and viola! my new studio! when i look at it (it stretches across the entire house) i am amazed that i was able to work in the small room below. i removed the ceiling in the small bedroom...now i have a wide open space in part of my studio which affords me access to the window below (since i do not work from nature natural sunlight is not that important to me, but i do like to be able to see the beautiful maple tree that is outside the window. i used the framing for the original attic stairs and made a glass block floor...now i can see down below and light filters up into my studio. the cat was very cautious when she first saw the glass block floor. she wouldn't walk on it because she didn't realize that there was a "floor" since she could see down. now she sleeps on it. many folks who come to my studio are also similarly cautious. i always give a demonstration and walk on the glass. i have a small closet at one end with a sink (i ran the plumbing up) so i can wash my brushes. i stained my floor white and used 5" wide oak planking. i know, white in an art studio, what could i be thinking!!!!....but i am looking forward to it aging and getting lots of colorful paint splatters on it. i have built-in shelves and also several stand alone book cases to hold my found object treasures, paint, etc. my table is an old work bench that i found in the trash and painted "bubble gum pink". since my studio ceiling is so high i was able to use the (former) attic stairs and now also have a stand up "upper attic" for camping gear, and various other odds and sods. i insulated the upper attic and the walls. i am warm in the winter and cool in the summer (a ceiling fan also helps). i have sloped walls on three sides of my studio. that adds to the "old studio" look that i like.
i have a lot of "stuff" in my studio that i use in my art. my studio is rather organized, as i would never find anything otherwise. although when i work there is art stuff everywhere. actually neal likes it better when it is messy!
what i like best (aside from everything!) about my studio is location location location! i try to work every day in my studio. the fact that it is just upstairs gives me no slothful lazy excuse to not work. also i can even work without getting dressed (though of course i do dress), i can work in my studio in all sorts of weather...i don't have to worry about snow, sleet, ice, record heat, etc. and, when i need a break, i can trundle downstairs, go out in my garden, write on my computer to you all, and i can always drop what i'm working on because helena is coming! also i like helena having access to my studio. she is very into projects (she calls herself a "project fairy"). we are often in my studio as she picks out "stuff" to use in her art.
do i mind working "alone"...not in a shared space as some do? no...because when i work i am not alone..i am with myself and my art. i never feel lonely. and if i need feedback, i always ask neal, my biggest fan, what he thinks. i don't always follow his opinion, but i always like to have it. and now that i am a flickr-ette, i post my art here and always get lots and lots of feedback. and my cat likes having me in the house with her. she is such a baby! she stays in my studio with me, and has often gotten paint on her paws!
so...that is as "short" a write up about my studio as i was able to make it. i am a "talky" new york gal and once i get started.....!!!! there may be things i left out that i want to share but can't think of any right now. if so, i'll drop back in and add them
EXHIBITED IN:
in mid april i was contacted, via my website, by the editor of STUDIOS magazine, asking if i would agree to have my art studio featured in their magazine.
she told me that she had seen my studio and art through a dc based art group. i was never able to ascertain from her which one exactly ( i belong to 3 groups here).
after several back and forth emails, to find out the details, i, of course, agreed!
neal and i spent several days taking many many many photographs of my studio to send to them. i had to send 15 photographs (they will choose among them) and also do a write up about my studio (there were several key points they wanted addressed for the article).
the STUDIOS magazine is quite nice. of course i rushed out and bought a copy of the spring issue and was impressed with the magazine, the format, photographs in it, write ups by artists about their studios.
i sent the required 15 photographs (they will not use all 15 but will chose among them. i have no idea which photographs they will use) and my write up.....again they may edit. it had to be a certain amount of words only.....knowing what a "talky" person i am i had to keep writing and reducing to stay within the limit.
my art studio will appear in the FALL issue, which will be in book stores (like borders, etc) starting 7 august.
i am very excited about being in this magazine and having my art studio seen across america. i am not sure if this magazine is sold abroad, but it may be in such countries that carry american magazines ( for example, there are many bookstores in paris that are dedicated to english books and magazines).
although these are NOT the photographs i sent her, you can get a peek at my art studio that i have posted on my flickr. at the top there is one main picture. if you scroll down you can see several other photographs. my studio has changed a bit since i took these (original photgraphs) and that is reflected in the photographs in the article.
i hope you will buy the magazine so you can see my art studio as it is now.
my studio is an art work unto itself......a true assemblage piece!
this is a link to my flickr where i have my art studio posted
www.flickr.com/photos/30462932@N07/4444809943/
here is what i wrote for the write up:
jennifer beinhacker
“art outside the edge”
jenniferbeinhacker.com
arlington, virginia
WHAT I DO:
i am a self taught artist, a devotee of found objects, street trash, bones, teeth and blood, who uses materials as a total gestalt to create images from the turmoil of my mind - an artist outside the edge. there is no object i can resist and bring to my studio, where it waits...a silent muse...for my next art piece.
WHY MY ART SPACE WORKS FOR ME:
i have always had an art studio. i began painting at age 10. at first i used the kitchen table (doesn't everyone!). at one time my art studio was an 8 by 10 rug and i painted squatting on the floor.
now my studio is a converted attic. i live in an historical registered home and could not put windows or a skylight into the roof. so i removed the ceiling of the bedroom below and added a partial glass block floor for light to filter into my studio.
i like having my studio in my house. i work in my studio everyday, from dawn until dark. having my studio close at hand is convienent..no need to worry about going out in inclement weather. i don't have to dress to work in my studio...art can be so deliciously messy. i work in a myriad number of media and have large and varied art supplies and need a really big space. all my supplies are out in the open, easy to see.
i enjoy being surrounded by my materials and objects as they are a source of inspiration. “the more chaos the better” seems to work really well for me. my studio is a work of art unto itself…an installation piece.
i have many art supplies and had to be creative in storing them. i find that open shelving allows me to readily see what is available. i use tin boxes, old candy and lunch boxes, clay pots, large seashells, woven baskets and mason and jelly jars that afford me a view of what is inside. animal skulls and old dolls are hung from the rafters, as are mobiles. my floor, old wide white planking, is covered with art pieces that are not currently hung. my walls are adorned with photographs of art pieces that i have sold …this way i can still enjoy them.
i found my work table in the trash. the rustic style and bright colors immediately appealed to me.
i could call my art outsider, visionary, raw, collagist, folk, emerging ……but the word that best defines me and what i do is…….artist.
MY FAVORITE TIPS:
if you do not have a sink in your studio add one. i found this to be the most helpful thing i did when renovating my attic into an art studio.
also put 3/4 inch plywood behind the drywall so that (heavy) objects can be hung.
if your studio is in a converted attic do not forget to put in a ceiling fan!
STUDIO DIMENSIONS:
13 feet X 24 feet - with a 10 feet ceiling
i hope you all get a chance to see "me" in the magazine. it is quite a thrill for me.
jenniferbeinhacker.com
art outside the edge
This was in a neighbours yard from where I was staying with family and I liked its intricate structure. This sun dial appears to be a man with whiskers and a bird. I do not think it is meant to be the moon, mainly because if the many rays surrounding it.
I caught this photo of these wood gulls perched on this flag post once before, but decided I would try to post them again in a different experimental shot. They were captured in a West Vancouver, BC Children's Playground in Ambleside Park, right by the ocean at Burrard Inlet. I wanted to give the effect of storm clouds rather than a clear blue sky.
This display of sea shells caught my eye, displayed on the wooden rail around a garden plot, situated in our local gardens. It reminded my of a wonderful novel I just read, entitled "The Shell Seekers" by the well known Scottish author, Rosamunde Pilcher. I was going to use her title but that would probably have been a copyright infringement. If you have not read any of her books, you are in for some wonderful reading. I have read quite a few of her books and they are all superbly written and keeps one wanting more.
I bought a few cards like this, they are actually like a painting and haver lights in them if you put a battery in. This one I got for my son and displayed it on his fireplace mantel with fresh green boughs from the trees outside.
Sadly this was our last visit; we had hoped to go this past Christmas but with the Pandemic it was not possible.
All the stuffed animals are appearing now in stores in time for the holidays. This cute white bear was seen in a store window.
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This Indian Sculpture was left in one of the local gardens. I took a few photos and saw it was missing one hand, so I guess the person was donating it to whoever would take it home.
This was an exhibition on display by a local artist, seen in the background, in downtown Vancouver, BC. I leave it to you whether or not you like it!! This display totally consists of broken bricks and stones!
These cute pink cars were parked across the street from our building. They are used by nurses who make house calls and it seems that these ladies just recently moved into our building. They are a not luxury cars, just a lot more practical.
These tents are for the Artists to use as concession displays for their art, paintings, sculptures, ceramic ware, etc. all during our Annual Harmony Arts Festival.
Both weekends have been packed with local visitors and many from other areas. Weather has been very sunny and hot. I had a great time, visiting almost every day for 2 weeks and missed only one or two days. The last day Sunday was terrific as the rain held off and I met so many wonderful people there. Now I have to wait until next year to go again.
I found these on display and in a framed and protected glass showcase. They do make a very beautiful and colourful display. I believe these were made by a local Glass Blower Artist SOL residing in the West Vancouver area who I understand is now retired. The photo was. taken in downtown Vancouver where his work was on display near a fountain. I have a small glass hanging vase from him. I have seen him blow glass when he was still active.