an imageteller captures image celebrations.
sharing image tales broadens an artistic expression.
doing so, brings this particular creative indescribable joy.
what is your image story? perhaps I can help you tell it!
i recently created a collage series using black and white images. The magazine photographs captured windows and doors in the southwest and I morphed female forms into them. I love the tone and individual feeling these have as well as how they reveal collectively.
Currently these will be displayed for October Art Walk and through October at Happy Chap Creative.
Window And Door Series :: The Ladder Known As Monday Window And Door Series :: Headless Privacy Window And Door Series :: Bricked Wilderness Window And Door Series :: Tentative Reality
This make your own calendar thing using my photographs idea started casually a few years ago and has since become rather beloved.
i make a calendar for myself every year and it's a practice of pause usually.
like my bio says i take way way too many photographs. so, when one particular image leaps out at me for that designated month? and one almost always does - that is my selection method. You'd be surprised how long it takes!!
this year i made the selections on the morning of my birthday and an indulgent second cup of coffee.
These are in order of the cover, then Jan - Dec.
Interested? Contact me. You pay me an artist fee. I don't have a set fee. If I set the fee too high - folks say stuff - if I set the fee too low then people want to give me more. Lets discuss - I will tell you what others have paid. I have a pay pal account and this makes paying me super easy.
How it works: you pay me an artist fee, i send you 13 image files via email, you watch for sales at places that sell calendars - they start going on sale now - some places even offer a free calendar!! You upload my images into the template they offer and make your own!! The months are already designated in the image file so it's SUPER simple.
Happy 2018!!
Collage Artist Karen Hanrahan gives Artist Talk
Friday October 27th at 4:30 - 6 PM
Deming Library - 5044 Mt Baker Highway
Inspirit-Form Collage Show Closing Reception.
I plan on raffling this collage that evening.
you must attend to win!!
truly hope you can join me.
( the collage below is what a deming library noticed on FB - she invited me to show. its because of her that I have this solo exhibition! )
my collage, as it turns out, was selected for the making history exhibit at make.shift in conjunction with whatcom county museum. very exciting to be part of a collective expression of an idea. more so when the show is juried. it feels like getting a good grade or being part of a club or something.
i get such a thrill in participating in a hanging and seeing the public interact with my work. i don't know how to explain it. a small part of me wishes i could stand next to my art and listen to what folks experience visually.
make.shift is a venue that i am very fond of. gritty, edgy, super arty and inspires. a making place for sure.
( i snapped the above image because i really really love the frame. I will have to find someone to replicate this for me.)
thank you make.shift for the pleasure of making history with you.
this month, and through the end of October -- i have 35 pieces of art hanging in the area. 4 venues. wow - i'd say that's a rather beautiful thing.
3 collages at Lenny's Bike Shop in Ferndale
9 photographs at Sumas Library
1 collage at Make.Shift
22 collages at the Deming Library
Plus older series collage works at Dog And Pony Gallery in IL
Photography = a never ending opportunity to capture visual celebrations.