Butterfly Cluster 2013

We made this simple, yet elegant Butterfly Cluster in June 2013 and donated it as a door prize for The Official Visit Innisfail Chapter # 37 of The Order of Eastern Star.

Designer unknown

Quilt Block 2007

In 2007 we made this Quilt Block use Bullseye (Red), Spectrum (White) and the Gold came from an old broken window, which we rescued before being disposed of.

 

Designer Unknown

The Alberta Flood Rose Project

Over 450 Alberta Artists in all different types of mediums are taking part in a huge Alberta Flood Rose Project. Each artist has submitted in their medium a 4 inch x 4 inch impression of the Alberta Rose. The Project’s plan is to mount 100 of these unique artist’s impressions together in a large panel(s) and later in August hold a huge fund raising auction to help with the devastation created in late June from the huge flooding in High River, Black Diamond, Turner Valley, Bragg Creek, Canmore, Calgary and many other areas in Southern Alberta. These unique panels will be an inspiration to Albertan’s and no doubt some large corporate purchasers will hang them with great pride in their respective office towers.

We of course made our stained glass Alberta Rose mounted via wires inserted in the back solder seams then inserted through a 4 x4 inch piece of fiber board held by twisting the wires together through small washers then covered with duck tape.

Professional photographs of each entry will be taken and eventually a book will be made available with all of the submissions etc. We will provide further updates. We also were stranded in Banff Alberta, by this unprecedented flooding and eventually were allowed to head west on the only open road on June 22. We had to drive all the way to Kamloops BC then north on the Yellowhead highway to Jasper National Park, staying overnight in Hinton, Alberta then back to Innisfail via Drayton Valley and Rocky Mtn. House a detour of some 1,460 ks. We saw lots of flooding along the way but nothing like seen in High River, Canmore, Calgary etc.

 

Lake Sunset – Donation

We were asked if we would donate a piece of our work to The Central Alberta Constituencies – Wildrose – Classic – Golf – Tournament held on July 18, 2013 at Alberta Springs Golf Course located near Red Deer Alberta as a silent auction fun raising item.

We made this oval piece highlighted with Spectrum’s Pearl Opal Blue Yonder for the water, along with their Thunderhead for mountains and Inferno for the sunset sky. For the tree we used Uroboros Heringbone Granite Ripple with a Kokomo green amber surrounding the water.  As the golf course is located close to Sylvan Lake we called this “Lake Sunset”

 

 Design by Carolyn Kyle

ArtWalk 2013

We are back in Wellspring Visual ArtNetwork’s 2013 ArtWalk. We have been members of the Association for many years and this year, we have returned to the 7th Annual ArtWalk. ArtWalk runs from June 28 to September 6, 2013.

Wellspring has an active membership of 40 Visual Artists, covering the rural area south of Red Deer Alberta, north of Calgary, east and west to the Alberta borders.

ArtWalk 2013 has 30 of it’s Artists displaying in 30 different business locations in Carstairs, Didsbury, Sundre, Olds and Innisfail.

Windows of the West Stained Glass can be found at Gotcha Jeans in Olds located at 5006-50 Avenue. Their open hours are Monday-Thursday 10am to 6pm, Friday 10am -9pm, Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-5pm.

All 30 locations have brochures available along with many other hotels, visitor centres, campgrounds. Grab a brochure for a great fun day of travelling around Central Alberta viewing Wellsprings Artists Art all of which is for sale.

The following picture shows Gotcha Jeans in Olds where our stained glass is on display and for sale. Listed below the photo are web links to Gotcha Jeans and Wellspring Visual ArtNetwork Association.

Gotcha Jeans Olds Alberta www.gotchajeans.ca

Wellspring www.wellspringvisualartnetwork.com

There is also a direct link to Wellspring from our home page under partners as well.

Enjoy ArtWalk 2013.