2022 Wind down!

 Well I see I missed a November post. I have been busy with collaborations and collage and journaling.

The gallery I was with for 2 years, Ricochet Gallery is now closed. I miss that. Michael and his husband Mark owned it- Michael's cancer came back had to have surgery so they needed to close. They created such a wonderful community. I might look for another gallery in the new year. I will share a few things for this end of the year post. The first two images are digital collages I did a couple of weeks ago.

Atlantis Rising

Luis's Flowers

The next few photos are of my part of a book collaboration I did with Matt French.

We worked digitally on this. This was about your our personal iconigraphical images. I often use certain things a lot as they have special meaning for me. These include chairs, houses, doors, windows, clocks to name a few. This first photo defines the collaboration. There is a video that shows the completed book on my instagram page. @terrygarrett763 I have a private account-just request there to follow me and I will let you in. I tend to post there a lot more than here. I did not do titles for these collages.

The last two here are the front and inside of the holiday card I did. The front

is a table top collage- meaning I put black paper on my work table and arranges these elements

then photographed the arrangement- then I altered it in the computer. The last one is the

inside of the card. Happy Solstice and Happy New year!

Last full week of October!

 I have been busy in the studio. I Have done a couple more accordion book collaborations. I posted those on my instagram terrygarrett763.  I taught a gel plate session for the artist/owners of Remarque Printworkshop. It was a fun day. I also took another class there- Collographs- I love those as it is sort of collaging onto a cardboard base and then inking and printing it.

For this post I will share a couple of collages that have a base of a gel plate image transfer that I scanned and added digital elements. Then some pieces for Halloween and for Day of the Dead.

I have a circle shaped gel plate and used that for this image transfer. I added

some other elements digitally. Title: Theo Could Not Escape From The Memory Of Her.

 

 There was a horror movie quite a while back that featured an Asian family that was terrorized by

a ghost.  This reminds me of that. Like the other one- A gel plate image transfer with added

digital elements. Title: She Knew He Was Watching Her.

This collage is a digital and analog combination.

Remembering Little Me

This collage is digital.  Looking Inside A Dream.

Another digital collage. Two Ravens Watching.

September went so fast

 Greetings- here it is the last week of September. I am amazed how fast time is going. So glad to be done with the 90+ degree days- there are some hints of fall color here and there.

 In this post I will share some new collages. These 6 are now framed and ready for the October group show at Ricochet Gallery here in Albuquerque. I have also been busy with a few collaborations.

If I Cut You Off Chances Are You Handed Me The Scissors

analog collage on gel plate print.

 

Big Trouble At The Homestead

analog collage on a printed out reverse of the gel plate print background in the above collage.

The Ascension of Icarus
analog collage on gel plate print

Percy Remained Hopeful

analog collage on reverse printed gel plate print 

 

Jacob Rowed Not So Merrily Down The Stream

analog collage on gel plate print

 

 Adrift On The Sea of Change

analog collage on gel plate print

 

Sweet Brian With His Bird Friends

analog collage on digital background

My dear friend Brian Kasstle recently visited us. When he returned home he posted a 

black & white photo of him with his canary. I just had to make a collage of that for him.

 

July slipped away...can't believe how fast time time goes!

 Here it is past mid-August already.  I have been very busy in the studio. I have worked on some artist books and new collages and I have completed some collaborations. Here are five collages.

This first collage has a monotype background. The yearbook photos I colored in the computer and printed them out on tissue paper.

Nathan Had No Intention of Going to the Reunion

Emergence

This is a mixed media collage using both analog and digital elements.

Ned Dreamed of Having Wings Like the Summer Butterflies

This mixed media collage is both digital and analog.

The Current Between Us

digital collage

One Man Watching

digital collage

Wrapping Up June

 I can hardly believe it is July Friday. Time is zooming.  The good news is we have received some good rains here in Albuquerque. Hoping for more.

I took a 2 day workshop June 17th & 18th.  This was at Remarque Print Workshop.  The workshop was taught by a terrific artist. Creating Monotypes with Chine Collé was the class taught by Barbara Kuzara- a terrific artist and teacher. Her way of doing Chine Colle was very different from what I had learned- I learned lots and creating the many layers was so challenging and exciting. It was a terrific 2 days. The three collages are from the workshop- they are 5" X 7". I enjoyed working small.

This print is titled "I Carry You In My Heart".  Some of the imagery here is printed onto tissue like paper.  There are many layers in this and when working in layers it is hard sometimes to get the order of adding the parts correct. This one went through the press at least 5 times.

The title for this one is "Star Light Star Bright".  Like the one above, this has elements that were printed on Nepalese Lokta paper, a natural tissue paper. This print also has many layers.

The title for this print is: "Make Me An Angel". The background is a
Cyanotype I did from a photograph I took using a wooden doll house as a set. All the parts except for the chair were printed on Lokta paper.

Once Again- I have neglected this blog

Greetings- I don't know what it is but I so seldom take time to do a blog post- I have many things I have made since the mid April post. I will try to show a few- I have some pieces up right now at Ricochet Gallery here in Albuquerque. The show there right now is Albuqueerque and it is a wonderful show celebrating LGBT pride.

The pieces I have up there right now are Tutelary deities.
A tutelary deity is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture or occupation. A household deity for example is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members.
These are 13 inches tall and 8 inches wide. The backgrounds are old book pages and tea bag papers. I have had these house shaped pieces of wood for years as well as the molding samples from a frame shop- finally the idea clicked and I made these Guardians. The three female ones are smaller collages and in house shaped frames.  This show at Ricochet Gallery is up  through to 25th. The gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday 12pm-4pm.

MidApril Already!

 Greetings- I can hardly believe April is have over! The springs blooms have been wonderful. And I will say the spring winds have been challenging here. That said my friends living in Minnesota had more snow this past week and cold temps.

I have been working on finishing up some collaborations. The envelop book project is completed now. I finished 2 more house collaborations. I will share those here.

This first house collaboration is with Matt French. Matt lives in the UK. His  digital collage work is amazing. The first photo is the house flat- that makes it way easier to ship. Then the rest are views of the house put together.

This next house is a collaboration is did with Matt Horner. Matt is a terrific collage artist living in Idaho.

Like the one above-first shot is the house flat. This is my start that Matt finished. The completed house photos follow.

 

 

The next set is the house that Matt Horner started and I finished. I so enjoyed doing

these house collaborations.