Ontario Archives ⋆ Karen Phillips Curran Visual Artist in Nova Scotia

finding community

Phillips-Curran — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 17:05:04 +0000

Its been a year now since I moved my life and art practice to Nova Scotia. It is starting to feel like home again. Until April 23rd I’m in a members show at ARCAC IN ArtsPlace Annapolis Royal, about 20 minutes from my hillside home. Check out the link here I lived … Read More

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thankfully

Phillips-Curran — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 20:32:34 +0000

Its autumn now and the colours here in Ontario are at their best right now, today this afternoon! The people who are supposed to stay home are following each other down the road. I wonder at it all. Fall has been the subject of not a few of my pieces, its fun … Read More

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life is an art

Phillips-Curran — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:30:16 +0000

watercolours to get cool… Read More

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sweet spot

Phillips-Curran — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 12:16:55 +0000

Life is indeed an art… Read More

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life is an art 3

Phillips-Curran — Sun, 31 May 2020 12:20:37 +0000

Some of us are deep into our isolation. We are about to break free from the chrysalis of our time alone. Our world begins to open up after quarentine. My life has had self isolation as a theme for many years. I moved into a boarding house while I was in high … Read More

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The Time it Takes

Phillips-Curran — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:38:53 +0000

People often ask me how long a piece takes to create. these days I tell them almost 50 years, as long as I have been practicing my art. There is no clock in my studio. time takes on a different value here. It moves to its own drummer. I often put an … Read More

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Organizing for creativity

Phillips-Curran — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:04:22 +0000

My creative process begins long before it ‘appears’ in ‘real’ life. They say it takes 10,000 hours to become masterful at a skill. Some multitude of those hours are encoded in the thought processes that go on in the beginning, middle and end of creation. My studio is part of my home, … Read More

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Gallery 106 a pop up gallery in Arnprior Ont opens for NOV DEC

Phillips-Curran — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:10:31 +0000

New pop up Gallery in Arnprior Ontario Gallery106.ca… Read More

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A Ripple in time

Phillips-Curran — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:41:15 +0000

“Stones” This long-term series, done in watercolours is one of the mainstays of my art practice. There are endless permutations of the imagery I see when at watersides. I strive to bring to you, the magic of these river and lakesides. I could go on and on…but just take a look….

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Fields, wind and fog

Phillips-Curran — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:26:07 +0000

A hay wagon rattles past me, again. Its dust settles on us here, country roads in the summer…that smell, the dust, the sounds… I spend a fair amount of time on country roads, I have to in order to get anywhere from here. the … Read More

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