Emily
This portrait celebrates an artist whose work I have long admired, but have only become truly familiar with in the past year. My new home in Victoria is one block from Emily Carr House and having now read many books both by her and about her, I have developed a deep appreciation for this remarkable woman.
My portraits are frequently figures from the past, so I rely on photos to give me a sense of their features. There are very few photographs of Emily Carr, so I had to rely on this 1934 one by John Vanderpant that shows her with paintbrush in hand, holding a canvas, and I sculpted her image in hand-dyed cheesecloth. I painted background fabrics using her signature forest palette, in swirls reminiscent of her daring brushstrokes, to give her the setting she was most at home in.
Reference photo by John Vanderpant, #M00666, City of Victoria Archives
$1200
34 × 20 inches (86 × 51 cm)
Cheesecloth sculpted with PVA adhesive, machine-stitched with monofilament thread to painted canvas fabric
This portrait celebrates an artist whose work I have long admired, but have only become truly familiar with in the past year. My new home in Victoria is one block from Emily Carr House and having now read many books both by her and about her, I have developed a deep appreciation for this remarkable woman.
My portraits are frequently figures from the past, so I rely on photos to give me a sense of their features. There are very few photographs of Emily Carr, so I had to rely on this 1934 one by John Vanderpant that shows her with paintbrush in hand, holding a canvas, and I sculpted her image in hand-dyed cheesecloth. I painted background fabrics using her signature forest palette, in swirls reminiscent of her daring brushstrokes, to give her the setting she was most at home in.
Reference photo by John Vanderpant, #M00666, City of Victoria Archives
$1200
34 × 20 inches (86 × 51 cm)
Cheesecloth sculpted with PVA adhesive, machine-stitched with monofilament thread to painted canvas fabric
This portrait celebrates an artist whose work I have long admired, but have only become truly familiar with in the past year. My new home in Victoria is one block from Emily Carr House and having now read many books both by her and about her, I have developed a deep appreciation for this remarkable woman.
My portraits are frequently figures from the past, so I rely on photos to give me a sense of their features. There are very few photographs of Emily Carr, so I had to rely on this 1934 one by John Vanderpant that shows her with paintbrush in hand, holding a canvas, and I sculpted her image in hand-dyed cheesecloth. I painted background fabrics using her signature forest palette, in swirls reminiscent of her daring brushstrokes, to give her the setting she was most at home in.
Reference photo by John Vanderpant, #M00666, City of Victoria Archives
$1200
34 × 20 inches (86 × 51 cm)
Cheesecloth sculpted with PVA adhesive, machine-stitched with monofilament thread to painted canvas fabric