Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Travelling Sketch Book Voyageur

C'est un projet d'envoyer 10 carnets de croquis en circulation libre dans la ville de Montréal etc. À la fin, Je garde l'espoir de recevoir de l'information sur leurs modifications pour enfin de les recevoir pour possiblement les exposer sur internet et publiquement (des adresses courriel et postale seront à la première et dernière page).

This is a project that I am elaborating of sending 10 sketch books around Montreal and elsewhere...I will place these sketchbooks in places that they can be picked-up by strangers (with email and website info so that they can send notes on their whereabouts). While hoping that they one day return back, allowing them to be shown in public and on the Net...(Information, about email and posting addresses will be inscribed on the first & last pages of each sketchbooks).

http://travellingsketchbook.spaces.live.com

Monday, July 09, 2007

Loosing my inspiration

I am at a point of lack of inspiration in my art work...
I feel drained of all creative energy...
I am too stuck to the Internet...
I made ceramic jewellery that need assembling...
I have plans to make polymer and textile jewellery...

I found this list of reasons that artists stop painting...Many of the reasons are just hilarious...
http://painting.about.com/
Don't you hate things that force you to stop painting?!
What things or events stop you from painting or interfere with your painting? And which do you hate the most? This list came out of a discussion on the Painting Forum. There are a lot that I relate to really well, and I'm sure you will to!

1. The phone or doorbell rings (again and again, and won't be ignored.)
2. I have fix lunch or dinner (or there'll be a family mutiny).
3. Mother nature calls (and I've kept putting it off).
4. It's almost noon and I'm still in my nightclothes (and not the set I've already ruined by getting paint on them).
5. The house is a mess and company is coming.
6. Someone lets in the company we're expecting (and my hands are covered in paint).
7.My husband wants to go to bed (our bedroom is my studio).
8. I have to go to work (to earn money to pay the bills and buy art supplies).
9. I get whiffs of burning food from the kitchen.
10. My ankles are too covered with bug bites from plein-air painting.
11. I had a doctor or other appointments.
12. I have to go and pick up my kids.
13. I've chores that need to be today still.
14. A friend phones with a 'problem' (and never tell her you're busy watching paint dry!).
15. I make a mess that needs cleaning up, whether it's on the ground or my shirt, or something in need of a plaster.
16. I get a headache.
17. When my feet have gone numb but I never noticed.
18. My lips are crusting over and my tongue is swollen from extreme thirst.
19. My body has been in one position for such a long time that, like the tin man from Wizard of Oz, I am seized up solid.
20. I have to pry my fingers apart and away from my brush as arthritis and lack of blood flow sets it into a claw like appendage.
21. The dog has been scratching a groove into the door trying to tell me that he needs out NOW!
22. My cat is plastered flat -- all four legs stretched out north, south, east, west -- against my studio window in hope that I am so impressed by this great trick that I let him in to get to his food dish.
23. My family or friends have called out the search squad because I have not been answering the phone messages or the door and no one has seen me in days and days.
24. I'm painting a summer scene and it starts to snow.
25. I have to leave a painting class early to catch a train home.
26. I rationalize that the extra rinse my laundry is getting from the downpour is actually a good thing.
27. I've run out of a particular colour that's crucial to this particular painting.
28. The light bulb has blown again and I can't see what I'm doing. (Must get an electrician to sort out the problem! Maybe I can sketch him doing it... I'll be paying him enough.)
29. I have to get a haircut because my hair's grown over my eyes.
30. I hate to stop painting ... PERIOD!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Emile GALLÉ




Émile Gallé
(1846-1904)
Was a French glass maker, ceramist and designer
Born in Nancy, France, in 1846, Emile Gallé is considered one of the most outstanding glass artists of his time, as he greatly contributed to the development of the art of glassmaking and to the Art Nouveau Style. He traveled in Paris, London and Weimar after his training, which included art, botany, and chemistry, and began producing fine pottery, furniture and jewelry. In 1873 he set up his own glass studio and a year later he took over his father's glass and ceramics factory in Nancy. At the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris he was inspired by the glass works of some of his contemporaries. At the Paris International Exhibition in 1889, he presented his own new types of glass, including carved cameo and pate de verre work, new shapes of vases and extraordinary new colors. In 1901, he founded "L'Ecole de Nancy".Throughout the 1890's in his "Cristallerie d'Emile Gallé", he created abundant new glassworks and therefore employed a team of craftsmen-designers, who worked on his designs and applied his signature after his approval. In those years, he also exhibited his Art Nouveau works with great success, thus winning international awards, recognition through commissions and increased popular demand. After his death in 1904, his widow continued to run the glassworks until the outbreak of war in 1914, all the glass sold being marked with a star after his signature. The Gallé glassware, mainly made by acid etching on two and three layer cameo glass with landscape and floral designs, continued to be made until 1935, when the firm closed down.The works of Emile Gallé had a major influence on the Art Nouveau movement. Clear and enameled or stratified, applied, engraved, acid etched or wheel-carved, his glass was very elaborate. Nature inspired his designs, which were mostly floral, some with foliage, or landscape decorations and some with a strong Japanese feeling. He developed a technique for the production of cut and incised flashed glass and enameled designs, enhanced by bright colors and transparency of the material.Gallé made vases and lamps in two distinct qualities of glass: his "masterpieces", that took hours of precise work to make and his less expensive, though of high quality art glass, that would later be called "industrial Gallé".Major works (from 1989 to 1904):Glass vases and lamps, with cameo or wheel-carved Gallé signature, etched to depict landscape scenes, flowers, butterflies or birds amongst foliage, in double or triple overlaid and etched glass; internally decorated, overlaid, wheel-carved glass; cameo glass; flashed, engraved, chased and enameled glass.




Friday, April 20, 2007

Visiting the Montreal Owen-Illinois glass plant

The Owen-Illinois Glass
Yesterday, I went to the Montreal Owen-Illinois glass company with Espace VERRE's 2nd year students, glass/instructor Donald Robertson, his wife Susan Edgerley (also a glass artist/instructor on a sabbatical) and our General Director Christian Poulin...All I can say is Wowzy...It was very impressive with their Five story high glass furnace that holds 4 feet high of molten glass. We took turns looking in the pits of Hell with a welding mask. We started the visit by going to the mold warehouse with countless metal molds... Their main productions are beer bottles...So we saw so many empty beer bottles among other kinds stacked up into giant walls...It made me think about the many houses made of recycled bottles...
What made me laugh the most was the comment that our guide said about burns that he had received in his multitude of jobs that he held for the company so I said Okay girls (our glass students are mainly women) show him yours and they all rolled up their sleeves and he said okay okay... You see when you play with fire, you'll most likely burn yourself and when you play with glass, well cutting yourself is inevitable...
To see glass artist Karine Demers blow glass in French at Espace VERRE
Glass is made of silicate, soda ash limestone, Alumina-Silicate, Salt Cake and Minor Ingredients to create color... Well this plant mixes the ingredients with recycled crushed glass called cullet. Their facility has the possibility of recycling up to 80% of glass for the production work and they only reach 20%. Now that's wrong...we must recycle more!!!


This is the Owen-Illinois statement on their website:

Environmental Commitment
O-I is committed to sustainable packaging solutions that are safe, recyclable, non-toxic and add value to both people and the environment. Our approach will enable us to sustain our business in all economic regions of the world, for present and future generations, while protecting the consumer and the environment.
We realize that caring for the environment is the responsibility of everyone working within the organization and we will actively encourage all individuals to be environmentally responsible.
We take measurable actions to reduce our impact on the environment, while supplying quality products that are pure, safe, healthy and infinitely recyclable to our customers. O-I has implemented a program of continuous improvement appropriate to the nature, scale and location of its activities, products and services.
Glass’ Sustainability
Glass is beneficial, safe and healthy for individuals and communities throughout its life cycle. It is made from materials that are safe in all probable end-of-life scenarios and it has been a trusted package for more than 3,000 years of human experience. And it is the only packaging material to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Further, glass is the only true “cradle-to-cradle” or endlessly recyclable product. Once glass is sorted, it remains the most easily processed and most readily recycled container. Even when recycled again and again, the quality, purity and clarity of glass does not deteriorate.
Used bottles can be reused to make new bottles forever. For example, a bottle can go from a curbside recycling box, through the recycling stream and re-made into a new bottle and on a store shelf in as little as 30 days
Recycling
In communities around the globe, O-I provides outreach and support in setting up recycling programs. These programs result in decreased consumption of raw materials, reduced emissions and improved energy conservation.
O-I plays a vital role in U.S. recycling as an active supporter of the Keep America Beautiful Foundation and the National Recycling Coalition. As early as 1973, O-I received Business Week's National Award for Business Citizenship and was cited for having some of the cleanest glass factories in the nation and leading the industry in glass recycling. Today O-I is the largest user of recycled glass containers in the United States, with nearly a million tons recycled annually.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Newest poem

Youth
the absurdity of our minds have gone wild
while colorful neon lights flash quickly
as we passengers of the godly metal
are drenched in the summer's sweat
these wild & throbbing times
are heard through howls in the night
with loud music blaring on the radio
capturing this very moment
on the celluloid of our naive minds
& in a split second realization
we are seized by the united thought
& understanding that tonight
we are immortal

Copyright ©2007 Suzanne Delorme

Monday, January 01, 2007

recent exhibition of my student work

6 oct. 2006
Cabinet des estampes

CABINET DES ESTAMPES Sélection de 18 albums collectifs réalisés aux ateliers d’estampe de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM de 1989 à 2006
Galerie de l’Atelier Circulaire,
5445 rue de Gaspé, espace 503
Du 6 au 28 octobre 2006
Vernissage le 6 octobre à 17 h.
Heures d’ouverture : mercredi - samedi de 12h à 17h
Cette exposition regroupe des productions inédites réalisées dans les ateliers d’estampe de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal de 1989 à 2006. Près de 250 étudiants ont participé à la planification ainsi qu’à la réalisation de ces estampes originales qui composent des albums thématiques, des livres d’art et des livres-objet.

L’esprit même qui a prévalu à la réalisation de ces projets a toujours été celui de déroger aux balises de la tradition séculaire de l’estampe traditionnelle afin d’aviver la créativité qui nourrit l’art et la vie. Il s’agit d’un Cabinet des estampes quelque peu délinquant qui témoigne encore et toujours de la vivacité des arts impressions. Aide à la mise en forme de l’exposition : Fanny Curtat, étudiante à l’ÉAVMCommissaire de l’exposition : Jean-Pierre Gilbert, professeur à l’ÉAVM

Participants: Pierre Bellefeuille, Andrée-Caroline Boucher, Pascal Doyon, Laurence Faidutti, Lise Fortier, Christine Lacroix, Claude Langevin, Dominique-Chloé Lefèbvre, Gaétane Lemieux, Sandra Vaillancourt, Isabelle Côté, Anne Couture, Jeanne Deschesnes, Joey Doire, Sonia Fontana, Gaétan Gagnon, Jean-Pierre Gilbert, Jean Leclerc, Brigitte Nantel, Joël Patrick Phibel, Georges Ringuette, Claudette Tardif, Patricia Healy, Louise Larin, Rachel Audet, Catherine Ayotte, Micheline Desrochers, Chu-Xe Diep, Dominique Dion, Nicole Dupuis, Marco Gonzalez, Elaine Gosselin, France Lord, Geneviève Mercure, Andrée Millette, Margot Pépin, Benoît Senécal, Sandra Vaillancourt, Mario Bergeron, Madeleine Biard, Yves Boucher, Martine Cazale, Michel Houle, Guylaine Larouche, Camille Leblanc, Philippe Méthé, Bertrand Rainville-Pitt, Diane Raymond, Louise Senay, Fannie Saint-Germain, Anne St-Louis, Cristina Torrent-Oriol, Christian Barré, Nathalie Boisvert, Marjorie Caron, Mariane Charland, Pierre Gagnon, Rollande Goudreault, Claude L’Archevêque, Marie-Danielle Leblanc, Maria Nadeau, Isabelle Plourde, René Provencher, Richard Rajotte, Mireille Tourigny, Guy Lamothe , Marc Beauchamp, Patrick Bourque, Sylvie Corneau- Bourgeois, Stéphane Corriveau, Frédéric Desjardins, Sébastien Gingras, Édith Jackson, Élisabeth Leclerc, André Milot, Nathalie Provost, Yves Renaud, Chantal Bernier, Lorraine Bernier, Yan Chubby, Gabriel Drolet, Katia Maria Gomes Da Silva, Louise Isabelle, Michelle Lauzé, Paul Lebel, Mélanie Lord, Geneviève Oligny, Maryse Phaneuf, Marc Piché, Robert Tanguay, Christiane Thibault, Christine Thibodeau, Claudine Trudel, Nadia Bertrand, Nadine Cartier, Josée Chartré, Stéphanie Chalut, Solange Courval, Suzanne Delorme, Geneviève Dubois, Daniel Langevin, Chantal Lévesque, Mélanie McNicoll, Llano Rossy, Marie-Ève Robidoux, Marielle Roy, Justin Sanscartier, Amélie Thomas, Diane Tremblay, Jean-Noël Bilodeau, Judith Bourgouin, Rachel Boudreault, Patrice Cantin, Véronique Chartrand, Nicole Francoeur, Marie-Ève Gauthier, Marie-Claude Hade, Marie-Pier Roy, Yvan Royal, Alexandre Saint-Jalm, Marie-Joël Turgeon, Nadia Veilleux, Isabelle Auger, Élise Bergeron, Martine Bruneau, Élise Cropsal, Charles Desgroseilliers, Marianne Dubuc, Catherine Lachapelle, Jean-François Lantagne, Ariane Pelletier, Pascale Rousseau, Roxanne Arsenault, Annie Boileau, Nathalie Clouâtre, Marc Gariépy, Valérie Gauthier, Simon-Pierre Gérard, Michel Labelle, Shin ah Lee, Katheryne Pichette, Carline Ponsart, Kathleen Rousseau, Phonesavanh Thongsouksanoumane, Marie-Ève Bertrand, Étienne Carrier, Carolina Espinosa, Andréa Fortin, Jannick Guillou, Brigitte Heloua, Marc-André Roy, Roxana Zegan, Ginette Aubin, Simon Bilodeau, Julie Carignan, Élise Charette, Robin Charron, Heidi Deschesnes-Doré, Martine Desjardins, Céline Dion, Karine Landerman, Mathieu Lavoie, Josée Lecompte, Annie Muller, Marie-Ève Payette, Marie-Ève Séguin, Valérie Vincent, Yoann Voyer, Linda Beaulieu, Amélie Bernard, Simon Bilodeau, Marylyn Boudreault, Évelyn Charette, Jessica Dauphinais, Geneviève Flageol, Émilie Forget, Mariane Kathy Labonté, Marie-France Laplante, Édith Lebeau, Catherine Massouras, Jean Morissette, Valérie Parizeault, Mathieu Penarroya, Pauline Rhéaume, Karen Riley, Isabelle Roy, Lucie Vervaet, Domonique Audet, Émilie Bouchard, Marie-Maude Brunet, Cynthia Desrochers, Marjolaine Groulx, Francis Jodoin, Olivia Keable, Élise Lassonde, Sylvie Moisan, Célia Provencher-Galarneau, Karine Vaillancourt, Dominique Boileau, Mélanie Bureau, Ariane Castonguay-Arsenault, Marianne Chevalier, Mathilde Destelle, Martin Dubé, Annabelle Giard, Fabienne Hardy, Stéphanie Homier, Katerine Lafrenière, Géraldine Pierrot, Marjolaine Samson, Isabelle Vanier, Josée Véronneau, Catherine Ballard, Véronique Béland, Louis Bouvier, Livienne Hélène César Grenier, Mathilde Corbeil, Catherine Gauthier, Sonia Lapierre, Véronique Larose, Véronique Lévesque-Pelletier, Geneviève Milette, Karine Payette, Marie-Pier Viens, Vincent Beauchemin, Crystelle Bédard, Arianne Bordeleau-Bergeron, Emmanuelle Bressan, Fanny Curtat, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Maxime Fortin, Youssef Gharbaoui, Clémence Grieco, Sophie Juneau, Emmanuel Lagrange Paquet, Sonia Lapierre, Karmen Mantha, Jean-François Ouellet, Cynthia Thibault

Jean-Pierre Gilbert