“It’s good to be a little afraid…and to have some courage to explore what’s personal” : Nadina Tandy’s show is on at the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek until Sept. 30
Read MoreArt EXHIBITION : Generational Imprints
“Generational Imprints”
contemporary art
The medium is analogue collage reproduced in print. The portraits started from photographs which were enlarged 3' x4' and intuitively reconfigured. Not so much painting pretty pictures, I am asking the viewer to ask questions of themselves. The following is my statement for the portraits on display. Also on display will be small analogue collage prints which have been part of my art practice for the last few years.
GENERATIONAL IMPRINTS
Showing and not telling is a theme throughout my artistic practice. A narrative of three generations of faces, grandmother, mother and daughter are explored in large format collage. Reconfigured faces which are easily matched but ever so off. Familiar patterns and parallel parts which shift to become unknown, uneasy.
Generational Imprints is my current body of work sharing with the viewer pieces of personal history and influence, flowers, wallpaper, patterns..etc.
1053 Roberts Creek, B.C.
heart of the creek
604-885-4218
September 2 -September 30
8am -4pm daily (closed Tuesdays)
Artist in our Midst 2020 Nadina Tandy
Artist in our Midst artist-in-residence March- June 2020
Dear friends and art lovers,
Beginning in March through June of this strange year, with the support of the Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Sechelt Downtown Business Association, I was thrilled to be the inaugural 'Artist in our Midst' of a newly established artist-in-residence program. A vacant storefront in downtown Sechelt in the BMO building was generously provided as a working artist's studio with plenty of room to explore and develop ideas with an eye to community engagement through art. This would provide a challenge in a time of social distancing and isolation.
At the beginning of March, I brought my selected art supplies to the place I came to call Studio S. Starting a new project always has a few false starts, but once I'd established my routine, I was on a roll. I worked 5 days a week drawing strange and fantastical images on the windows and creating dreamlike collage creatures, mounting them on sticks (almost like shadow puppets) and grouping and rearranging them in the windows in a strange dance that people could view without entering the studio. Unwittingly, an art exhibition in isolation was created fulfilling the requirement for community engagement by being accessible to all, safely from the street. My final contribution and leave behind was to enlarge a few select collages and wheat-paste them to the wall on Periwinkle lane.
As part of the Artist in our Midst residence, I took over the sunshinecoastarts Instagram account for a little over a week in order to share the work and progress coming out of Studio S. I attempted to engage interested art fans and managed to add some followers to the SCAC account. I even had curious visitors tap on the window after learning the location of Studio S and what was going on there through Instagram. The takeover also drew new followers to my own personal profile, as well. While providing challenges as a closed studio, I managed to find creative and playful ways to connect and engage with the community visually.
The studio was an enjoyable and productive experience for me and I was able to focus, explore and develop a series of new works. As well, several opportunities emerged as a result of the work I created during my artist-in residence. I was contacted by North Vancouver's Artists for Gordon Smith Gallery to participate as a featured artist along with Karin Bubas for AFK at Home video hosted by artist and educator Amelia Epp. Also, a thrilling invitation for Artist-in-residence at AFK Gordon Smith Gallery is being planned for Spring 2021.
There was a social-distancing interview with Rik Jespersen for the Coast Reporter and countless interactions with people looking through the window at the art I was making. Also in response to the weird and wonderful collages I created at the Studio I have ventured into the production of custom designs for t shirts, ready to be ordered and worn. There will be more products and ideas to come so please check back for up-dates. In the mean time open the link for a boo at the Collage Character designs, order a shirt or two and take them for a walk.
Thanks to all for the support to explore and build new work. Having an unfamiliar studio space and trying to engage the community in the age of social distancing forced me to flex a different set of creative muscles and is an important part of my forward creative momentum.
Warm Regards, Nadina
Photo credit Christina Symons ‘Installation 2020’, Periwinkle Lane, Sechelt, B.C. by N.Tandy
8 fold mini-zine art tour by Nadina Tandy
That’s a wrap for Imagined art tour an 8 fold mini-zine I created and made into 32 copies to be left in various locations from the Sunshine Coast, B.C. to London, UK with a little show in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
I hope they all found good homes.
Offering up a few works on paper for sale on my website Available
Thank you for supporting original art,
Nadina
Winter Artist Retreat
Winter Artist Retreat
Dear friends and art lovers,
It's hard to believe that 2017 is quickly coming to a close and looking back, I realize what a full year it has been. The time has flown by with both creative and domestic endeavours. There has been art exhibits, workshops facilitated and new work produced as well as family visits, care for a beloved ailing pet and the removal of a large cedar tree that had stood on our property for decades. And now it is time to recharge and renew.
To that end, I am going to be taking some time to catch my breath and to explore the new ideas that have been percolating in me throughout the year and I want to let what unfolds be unencumbered by the demands of social media, the sharing of work in progress or the pursuit of sales. And so, I am calling a time out and embarking on my Winter Artist Retreat.
I will be spending the time only a stones throw from a beach on the steel grey Salish Sea, facing the bracing winds and walking the green trails of the nearby forests. Reestablishing my connection with the natural world is grounding and a source of great inspiration to me, helping me to be present, in the moment and open to the beauty that surrounds me. This natural connection, as well as the odd combination and permutation of memory and dream that run through my imagination is an endless source of inspiration and a springboard for my creative expression.
I will return to social media and the sharing of my progress in the spring. I am excited to see what evolves from this getaway, my focused artist retreat.
Warm regards,
Nadina
Proserpine 1874 by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl studio 42 Nadina Tandy
AN INVITATION TO ART
Dear friends and art lovers,
I would like to welcome you to my Gibsons studio on the weekend of October 20-22 for the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl.
No. 42 on the Map Guide & Artists' Listing.
Sunshine Coast ART CRAWL
October 20-22, 2017
Fri - Sat - Sun: 10am - 5pm
Map Guide & Artists' Listing found on Sunshine Coast Art Crawl link as well as brochures in various locations.
What to expect when you visit the Studio. Nadina's mixed media drawings incorporate the weird and wonderful using found material, illustration and paint.
Warm Wishes from My Sunshine Coast Studio To You
SUNSHINE COAST ART CRAWL 2016 Kez Sherwood & Nadina Tandy
SUNSHINE COAST ART CRAWL 2016
Please join us for the 7th annual Sunshine Coast Art Crawl at Kez Sherwood Studio located in the Seaside Village of Gibsons, BC
Visit Artists' Kez Sherwood and Nadina Tandy, venure 20 & 21 on the Art Crawl map guide & artists' listings
ADDRESS: Studio 201 – 287 Gower Pt. Rd Across from Mike's Gelato
- Don’t miss our studio open house party on Friday night!
- Kez and Nadina will be doing some demos throughout event
- The SOAK will be on-site!
*Please note there is a set of stairs to go down.
We can provide assistance, please ask!
DATES: October 21 -23
TIMES: Daily 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
PARTEE! Friday night party 7:00 – 9:00 PM – Sponsored by Seven Seams
http://www.sunshinecoastartcrawl.com
Power of Paint 2016 ANNUAL SUNSHINE COAST BC ART EXHIBITION
Dear art lovers,
Thank you, on behalf of the Eleven Equal Artists for another outstanding Power of Paint Exhibition on the Sunshine Coast, BC. I am not certain that 6 or so years ago, when we first conceived of Power of Paint that we realized what it was we were doing. Eleven Equal Artists have not only begun an art show, we have brought to life an event.
Through hard work and shared vision we have mounted not only an exhibition of our own diverse styles but an event which included a collaborative art piece, a bursary, live music, food and drink and the attention of the community at large.
Despite the collective hard work of all the artists involved in this show, it would mean nothing if not for you. The success of Power of Paint really lies with the art supporters, the curious, the casual observers and true believers who have attended this event at different times over the last 5 years. For that we thank you.
Special arty thank you to our volunteers, supportive partners and to Ginny Vail for raining in the toddlers.
Eleven Equal Artists : Morley Baker, Josefa Fritz Barham, Todd Clark, Elizabeth Evans, Greta Guzek, Carol LaFave, Kim LaFave, Ian MacLeod, Cindy Riach, Nadina Tandy and Marleen Vermeulen
Click on image for slide show of Power of Paint 2016 Sunshine Coast BC