Salt Spring Island in September

The mill - Crofton, Vancouver Island, BC

The bridge of the ferry

View from the ferry - Vesuvius, Salt Spring Island to Crofton, Vancouver Island

Fishing on the lake - from St. Mary's Lake Resort

St. Mary's Lake - the view from the dock

A lovely old roadside zucchini cart

I love the attrition of an old wooden building.

A little bit of history along Beddis Rd., SSI

The beach

Arbutus at Beddis Beach, Salt Spring Island

All images Copyright by Gillian Cornwall c 2011

The Big Sky

The last light of day touches my heart

I am in everything and everything is in me

From Here to Forever

Softness

Intensity

The Enterprise?

All images are the property of Gillian Cornwall - c2011

Quamichan Lake

Ink and Watercolour Pencil
4" X 6"
Quamichan Lake, Duncan
by Gillian Cornwall
Copyright 2011

New Drawing - Summit Park Garry Oaks

Garry Oaks in Summit Park - Victoria BC
India ink and EB pencil on paper
by Gillian Cornwall
Copyright 2011

Mike Carroll Gallery - Lanai Hawaii

To view some beautiful oil paintings filled with the Aloha spirit, have a look at the Mike Carroll Gallery on Lanai, Hawaii.
Aloha

Light of Morning

Ah, restorative light of morning!
The promise of opportunity
and an elixir to the fears of nights gone by.
You, chance for peace, love and joy -
I give my thanks to you.

A Retrospective - some of my art from the 80s to the present

Media range is oil pastel on paper, watercolour pencil on paper, pencil on paper and ink on paper.
Enjoy,
Gillian.

A Couple of Seascapes by Gillian

Shark Cove and Pu'upehe
Lana'i, Hawaii
By Gillian Cornwall
Watercolour Pencil on Paper
4" x 6"
Copyright 2000


Hawaii
by Gillian Cornwall
Oil Pastel on Paper
9"x12"
Copyright 1988

Portrait of Parker by Gillian Cornwall

Portrait in pencil on paper
by Gillian Cornwall
October 2009
8" x 10"

Dawn 'Til Dusk Jewellery

Check out
this great new
local jewellery:
Dawn 'Til Dusk

Artist Statement for Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gzbutz3AVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88vX51wB0w&feature=related

Please enjoy this video of Wendy Welch's artist statement at Open Space Gallery in Victoria, BC

Tradewinds and the Aloha Dancers from July09

Tradewinds
and
The Aloha Dancers
with Special Guest Dancer - Tulawe from Fiji
July 2009
Cameron Bandshell
Beacon Hill Park
Victoria BC

Click on images to enlarge

Tulawe

Tulawe

For more information about Tradewinds and the Aloha Dancers, see their website.

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance - This Friday at Open Space Gallery

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance

Friday, November 6, 2009 7:00 pm

Opening reception is on Friday, November 6, 8:00pm

Artist Talk at 7:00pm

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance

Runs from November 6 through December 12, 2009.

Open Space Gallery

The work of Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter
delightful, insightful, and one heck of a painter.

A portrait of Sarah B. by Gillian Cornwall

Image approximately 8"x10"

pencil on paper
Copyright 2009

Wendy Welch Show at Open Space

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance

Friday, November 6, 2009

This content is directly from the Open Space web site.

Opening reception is on Friday, November 6 at 7:00pm.

Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance runs from November 6 through December 12, 2009.

Victoria artist Wendy Welch is fascinated by contemporary desire, and the tangible evidence left in its wake. Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance will feature six new works that originate in Welch’s commitment to drawing and installation. She honours the everyday materials that come into her life—whether the gifts of materials from her students, or found objects or the various envelopes and print materials that cross her desk.

An inveterate collector and recycler of objects, Welch examines the impulse to collect, to store and to amass material goods, both as an individual and as a contributor to a wider consumer culture. Welch gives unexpected form to the accumulated residue of consumerism by transforming ephemera into a monumental study of abundance, identifying exactly where abundance tips into excess. Welch describes the installation as a “three-dimensional scribble,” a deliberately non-functional, provisional, structured and chaotic milieu, in which visitors might consider materiality, process, accumulation and, indirectly, landscape.

Wendy Welch studied visual art at the University of Victoria (MFA), California State University in Los Angeles and Concordia University, Montreal (BFA). Her work has been presented at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Richmond Art Gallery among other galleries and artist-run centres. In addition to her visual art practice, Welch is an art writer, curator and educator. She is the Founder and Director of the Vancouver Island School of Art.

www.wendywelch.com

A taste of Autumn in West Saanich

Some pics of the produce

Thanks to Sarah B for the loan of the camera
and the drive to the country.

home

Not a day goes by

when I don't hear you
call me home.

Animal

Windblown shelters
the scent of living cedar
I am my animal
senses alive
choking on human intelligence
begging instinct to push
through my skin as fur
to warm me

Gillian Cornwall, 1993

The Fog

A fog has descended over the town that is my brain.
Strangers move silently through the haze
bumping one another with ignorance and a taste of vehemence.

A raging parade masked by the static
thick in the throats of the anonymous crowd.

Fedoras pulled down
Collars turned up
Heads bent
and shoulders hunched

Not a glance exchanged
No introductions made
No gentle touches
Nor aspirations shared

Contemporary Delight

Wendy Welch is my favourite contemporary artist. I won't talk about it here but please take a look at her website.

Wild Things Gone Tame

I sure know that I am unlikely to gain many friends with this post but I hope that it inspires some thought and some alternate perspectives.

The domestication of animals is the issue at hand. I want folks to consider the likelihood that the domestication of any and all species only benefits the human. From farm animals to pets, this is the score: Humans = advantage; animals = 0

The domestication of animals for consumption has a somewhat obvious history with humans desire for an easy food source but the keeping of animals as pets is only about human whim and desire for control over other creatures. Why do we take certain animals into our living space and let them sleep where we sleep, eat what and where we eat and then get upset at them when their instincts show and they scratch the furniture, meow, bark or mark their territory?

Animals made into pets from wild things lacked choice. This was a selfish act on the part of humanity. We are the only animal that seeks to control other animals and then anthropomorphize them. We are proud of ourselves for saving a kitten or puppy that may have been euthanized but they are only in that position as a result of our domestication of their species. Wild animals have little or no need of us.

We humans are ungainly and selfish creatures who lack instinct and the ability to function in our environment. Take a moment to picture the earth without the human animal.

It's astounding, isn't it?

I call for people to consider stopping the further domestication of all species. What if we set a date by which we would no longer breed animals for our use and further consider the amount of space we take up on this earth? Let's make a space for the freedom of our fellow creatures.

If you want meat, hunt it.

If you want comfort, look to yourselves and to each other.

Peace.

Rule.

My atoms are banging together like grocery carts in a big box store
and I've reached a point in my paradigm
where I'll pass up your piss and vinegar
for a good conversation and a bottle of pinot grigio

"I'm old", I say
in that "You don't know me!"
piss tank kinda way

Like magnets: same-same
we push away in this game
with a faked out pout
turn about and an
"I wanna spend my life with you!"

Rule.
"Be yourself", you said
so I've been looking in the tool shed
behind the rusted barbeque
and the lawn darts.
It's a start.
Pretty sure I'm in there, somewhere.