CHROMA: GREEN

In 2019, four members of the Hana Kark Collective — encaustic artist Caryl St. Ama, painter Margaret Lazzari, mixed-media artist Nancy Kay Turner, and I — began a collaborative project using color as a commonality. It became known as Chromatic Collaboration. We each worked independently to create 25 birch plywood panels, 6” x 6” each, for every primary and secondary color. We started with blue, intending to work our way through the spectrum, with no clear idea of how we would ultimately assemble the work or where the process might lead. Our first exhibitions, mid-process, were in September 2019.

The third color in the series is green. After trying new stitches and stitch combinations in the orange series I wanted to continue in that direction, but with a more directional approach. While rummaging through my art supplies I came across a box of sea glass that we’d collected over the years on summer holidays at our family cottage on Keats Island, British Columbia. So many memories popped up as I sorted through to find the green bits. I knew immediately I’d found my direction. Each piece tells a story, of a moment in time, when my children were small and our days were long and lazy.

The stitched pieces are laminated to 3/4” baltic birch plywood. Click on the images below for a close-up view and detailed description.