Another challenge-- Learning the Flash program to animate segments of dance collaborating with Veronique MacKenzie and Lukas Pearse. Off to Banff to do some serious studying.
As life spins along, sometimes peacefully, sometimes beyond our control, I am now in a phase of readjusting to living and creating without my life partner, my husband, artist Richard Rudnicki. Richard died suddenly on November 4th, 2019. In the more than two years that followed his death, I worked predominately on completing his graphic novel, Dusty Dreams and Troubled Waters , written by Brian Bowman, and in curating a show of his work, Richard Rudnicki: Reflections on Life , at ArtsPlace Gallery in Annapolis Royal. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2251430 https://artsplaceexhibits.weebly.com/richard-rudnicki.html This does not mean that I did not work in my own studio, but grief and the adjustment to life alone did take its toll.
The Barrens, Mt. Uniacke, acrylic on canvas, 4' x 4' The parklands of the Mount Uniacke Estate include trails through Acadian forest, wetlands and the barrens. The trails wind through woodlands, sometimes with deep undergrowth. However, along the Barrens Trail the woods are dominated by red spruce. The survivors reach above the unsuccessful fallen trees whose trunks and branches create a pattern of white bones across the forest floor.
installation shot of "Woodlands" at Gallery Page and Strange Visual Viewpoints: Tooke invites viewers to Woodlands show the Chronicle Herald, Arts and Life, September 18, 2013 - 5:41pm BY ELISSA BARNARD ARTS REPORTER I have been to Hemlock Ravine, but I have never seen it the way Halifax artist Susan Tooke does. Her woods teem in colour and line in a cheerful and exciting new show, Woodlands, at Gallery Page and Strange at 1869 Granville St. in Halifax until Sept. 27. The side of each wood panel is painted in the acrylic colour — red, or teal, or royal blue or green — that will dominate the background of each image. With eye-popping colour, outlines and a visceral energy in her lines and abstracted forms, Tooke continues to create an exalted experience of the land that she first introduced in her show, Transformation, two years ...
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