• About | À propos
  • Calendar | Calendrier
  • Where to find my work | Où trouver mes pièces?

~ Art of a quiet nature by Géraldine Petit-Gras – Artist (Ottawa, ON)

Tag Archives: contemporain

Gail Bourgeois and Paula Murray at the OAG

13 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Bowls | Bols, Exhibition | Exposition, Pottery | Poterie, Travel | Voyage, Wall decor | Décorations murales

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Art Gallery, contemporain, contemporary, drawing, Gail Bourgeois, Ottawa, painting, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine

While distributing pamphlets downtown at the Ottawa Art Gallery I visited the exhibitions of two of my friends/colleagues were having an exhibition this summer: Gail Bourgeois and Paula Murray.

“Correspondence” – From roots to rhizomes to mycelial networks – by Gail Bourgeois
June 4 – Sept. 18, 2016
I was particularly attracted to her abstract shapes on Mylar.

P1080462
P1080454
P1080456
P1080458
P1080460
P1080461

“You are me” by Paula Murray
June 24 – Sept. 25, 2016
Here a my favourite pieces. Guess why…

P1080448
P1080450
P1080453
P1080451

Reception night for The Seahorse Project

21 Wednesday Oct 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Artist residency, Exhibition | Exposition, News | Nouvelles, Sculpture, Wall decor | Décorations murales

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

argile noire, Artwork, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, décoration, Exhibition, Exposition, hippocampe, Interview, Laguna Frost, noir et blanc, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Ottawa School of Art, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse, YouTube

After a big Fall storm, some people were brave enough to come and have a chat during the Reception for my show at the Ottawa School of Art.
Fellow ceramic artist Hilde Lambrecht got me a wonderful bottle of wine with a Seahorse on it called “Promised Land”. It was very “À propos” for this show. Thanks Hilde! Thanks as well to all of those who showed up and those who have already visited and left a note in my book, as well as those who will come prior to Wednesday (when I’ll take it down).
A big thanks to Dawn Dale as well for graciously accepting to interview me for a YouTube video.

Nice!
Nice!
Fellow ceramist Hilde Lambrecht writing a note
Fellow ceramist Hilde Lambrecht writing a note
Awesome gift from Hilde.
Awesome gift from Hilde.
Refugees.
Refugees.
Friends and fellow artists.
Friends and fellow artists.
On the Line
On the Line
Ready when you are.
Ready when you are.
Still Standing.
Still Standing.
The Pacifist.
The Pacifist.
Flagship Species.
Flagship Species.
The Fallen.
The Fallen.
Friends and fellow artists.
Friends and fellow artists.
Friends and fellow artists.
Friends and fellow artists.
View from outside, at night.
View from outside, at night.
View from outside, at night.
View from outside, at night.
View from outside, at night.
View from outside, at night.

The Seahorse Project is up!

13 Tuesday Oct 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Artist residency, Exhibition | Exposition, News | Nouvelles, Sculpture

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

argile noire, artist residency, Artwork, École d'art d'Ottawa, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Exhibition, Exposition, Laguna Frost, Ottawa School of Art, porcelain, porcelaine

Last week on Wednesday I set up my Artist in Residence Exhibition. Here are the pictures of the show that will be in the Lee Matasi Gallery until October 21. Reception will be this Thursday evening. Unfortunately on of my pieces broke its tail during the week-end (most likely because part of it was mended with glaze prior to the second firing and it couldn’t hold part of the weight once attached on the wall, although it was attached o the wall in 3 different points). Oh well, lesson learned. It has also been advertised on the Ottawa School of Art Website.

Artist Statement:
“Seahorses are fascinating creatures that have long captured our imagination. Part chameleons with their independent eyes and ability to camouflage, part horses with the shape of their head and long neck and part monkey with their prehensile tail, these odd fish still hold many mysteries for scientists.
Seahorses are being harvested and decimated by the millions every year. When climate change and pollution threaten the natural habitat of these coastal-living animals, they are facing yet another challenge.
When your population is driven to the point of extinction, what do you do? Do you adapt, stay and fight? Do you migrate against your own nature? Where can you seek asylum in foreign territories? ”

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Gallery

Reception at La Fab

23 Saturday May 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Exhibition | Exposition

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Entrevue, Exhibition, Exposition, Laguna Frost, Liana Voia, YouTube

This gallery contains 15 photos.

Originally posted on Ottawa School of Art | La Fab:
We would like to thank the many visitors who came today and made our Reception a…

Image

Official invitation card for Lines in nature | La nature des choses

12 Tuesday May 2015

Tags

Artwork, contemporain, contemporary, Exhibition, Exposition, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Paula Murray

LinesInNature-Ad_FINALCOPY

Posted by StudioGPG.com | Filed under Exhibition | Exposition

≈ 3 Comments

Photoshoot for Lines in Nature | La nature des choses

19 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Artist residency, Exhibition | Exposition, Sculpture, Wall decor | Décorations murales

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Artwork, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, hippocampe, Laguna Frost, objet d'art, oeuvre d'art, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse

Last Sunday, all of the artists collaborating on the show “Lines in Nature | La nature des choses” were at the Ottawa School of Art to take pictures of our work for the catalogue. While some of the pieces were still a work in progress, Paula Murray and I had decided to have it finished for the photoshoot.

On the project’s Blog you can see pictures of the artists interacting with each other. They were taken by Dawn Dale.

Here is our piece entitled On the line | En eaux troubles. It will be for sale at La Fab (Old Chelsea, QC) between May 23-June 21. A big thank you to our Maggie Knaus for photographing all the artworks that day. It promises to be an exciting show.

On the line | En eaux troubles (credits: Maggie Knaus)
On the line | En eaux troubles (credits: Maggie Knaus)
On the line | En eaux troubles (closeup of the seahorse) - (credits: Maggie Knaus)
On the line | En eaux troubles (closeup of the seahorse) – (credits: Maggie Knaus)

How to photograph your ceramics

15 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Business of Art | Gestion de carrière artistique, Tips | Trucs et astuces

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Artwork, Business of Art, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Photography, poterie, pottery, sculpture, Tutorial

Coralline - The Sea Dragon

Coralline – The Sea Dragon

As I always look for ways to improve the quality of my photographs, I found this great tutorial. It is more complex than one would need but it helped me understand how professionals get that beautiful gradient background.

So far I achieved this effect on some of my pieces using Gimp (equivalent of Photoshop in Unix). You cut out the image of the piece and add a gradient background layer to it. It just takes too uch time and adding shadows make it look less natural.

All the credits go to Jeffrey Opp. Thanks

Video of my interview on TV Rogers

10 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Business of Art | Gestion de carrière artistique, Exhibition | Exposition, News | Nouvelles, Sculpture, Wall decor | Décorations murales

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Artwork, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Entrevue, Exhibition, Exposition, Interview, Laguna Frost, poterie, vidéo, YouTube

Hello,

Finally I managed to edit the video of my interview on TV Rogers (French only) and uploaded it on YouTube. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can check the related Post I made in January.

Artist Residency – Work in Progress (8)

01 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Artist residency, News | Nouvelles, Sculpture, Tips | Trucs et astuces, Wall decor | Décorations murales

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

artistic collaboration, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Exhibition, Exposition, La Fab, La nature des choses, Laguna Frost, Lines in Nature, Paula Murray, porcelain, porcelaine, techniques

Starting in February I have been focusing on implementing ideas for the Lines in Nature Project/La nature des choses Project.
Here are some photos of the work in progress. (more to come)
Note: I have also posted some sketches and concept developed during the partnership with ceramic artist Paula Murray on the Project’s blog.

Piece for Concept #2
Piece for Concept #2
Piece for Concept #2 in the kiln to be bisqued
Piece for Concept #2 in the kiln to be bisqued
Sketches for Concept #3
Sketches for Concept #3
Newspaper backing prior to laying my slabs (note: the height of the project is made so the piece will fit on a kiln shelf half)
Newspaper backing prior to laying my slabs (note: the height of the project is made so the piece will fit on a kiln shelf half)
I sketched a layout for the piece
I sketched a layout for the piece
Completing the drawing of the back of my piece (it will be 3D)
Completing the drawing of the back of my piece (it will be 3D)
Cutout of the backing of my piece for Concept #3.
Cutout of the backing of my piece for Concept #3.

Artist Residency – Work in progress (7)

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

Posted by StudioGPG.com in Artist residency, News | Nouvelles, Sculpture

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

argile noire, b, black and white, black clay, Céramique, Ceramic art, contemporain, contemporary, Laguna Frost, noir et blanc, porcelain, porcelaine, sculpture, seahorse

Sorry for being late with my posts, I did some updates on my Website (CV, Links, News and Press sections) and it takes time and I have been working on a large piece for the Lines in nature Project (photos are coming soon). I also have also been working on a mangrove piece for my end of residency show using both black clay and my white porcelaineous Laguna Frost clay. It’s pretty long and wide enough that it didn’t fit a half kiln shelf so the tech will have a hard time putting it in. I hope it’ll be OK… (I did offer my help in case she needs a second pair of hands). I also glazed my second piece for the bell jar and prepared some tiles for the Lines in nature Project (spoiler alert: I might try some terra siggilata on them).

Mangrove piece
Mangrove piece
Mangrove piece
Mangrove piece
Mangrove piece
Mangrove piece
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
glaze firing
test tiles for the Lines in nature Project
test tiles for the Lines in nature Project

← Older posts

Calendar | Calendrier

Calendar | Calendrier

Teaching

Adults Pottery - Sculptural Hanbuilding classes / Summer Camps for ChildrenJanuary 11, 2023
Teaching how to sculpt with clay to adults (Winter, Fall and Spring sessions) and Children (Summer Camps in July) at the Nepean Visual Arts Centre (1701 Woodroffe Ave, Ottawa, ON). ------------------- J'enseigne la sculpture en argile aux adultes (sessions d'hiver, printemps et automne) et aux enfants (camps d'été de juillet) au Centre des arts visuels de Nepean (1701, Ave. Woodroffe, Ottawa, ON).

Archives

Categories | Catégories

Blogroll

  • Art by IN FLUX
  • La Fab
  • Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
  • OSA – La Fab (Collaborative Project)
  • Studio GPG – Facebook Page
  • Studio GPG – Instagram
  • Studio GPG – Website

RSS Links

RSS Feed

Link to Studio GPG - Facebook
Link to Studio GPG - YouTube
Link to Studio GPG - Website
Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l'Ontario

Blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • studiogpg.wordpress.com
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • studiogpg.wordpress.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...