KPC Members exhibit of fine works on paper is now showing through August 31, 2017 during business hours in the back foyer gallery space of the Yellow Schoolhouse located at Tsegyalgar East, 18 Schoolhouse Road, Conway, MA. Many of the works are on sale to benefit the Dzogchen Community.
Amanda Pollock
1. Arya Sales
Colophon.
Black Chinese powder ink and encre rose ink. Boji and hibiscus flower
essences. Painted with peacock feather brushes.
President of the
Wayward Girl motorcycle riding school is a hand made pen, ink and paper artist. This
series of work was created with hand made peacock feather brushes, Conway Rags
to Paper white linen paper and rhubarb dye with gem and flower essences and is
inspired by the incredible journeys of Arya Sale, Yeshe Tsyogal, the Oracles of
the Kalachakra and the teachings of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Special thanks to Jacqueline Gens and
KPC. SSI and the school of Tibetan Medicine, Khaita, the town of Conway and the
Dzogchen Community.
Brenda Lilly
2. Water Lily
Lino Print on handmade paper
Creating art has been a
part of my life as far back as I can remember, from drawing on my bedroom walls
to taking watercolor classes at my local museum when I was 8 years old. I was
fortunate enough to have an encouraging mother who saw something in me at an
early age. Teaching art came
naturally as I wanted everyone to experience art. The magic of Origami stung me when I became an art teacher 26 years ago. Throughout the
years I have integrating art and origami, creating folded art that
combines beautiful papers with the right fold. The Lotus Flower was taught to
me by one of my closest origami influences, Bob Stack, a Conway/New York
resident. He learned it from an 8-year-old Asian girl from New York. She
learned it from someone else and passed it on, which happens quite often in
origami; similar to the Paper Collaborative, where everyone is welcome to come
and experience the art. It is a community event. Making and teaching art will be a part of my life forever!
Madeline Liebling
3. Hold it Together : HP (handmade paper), dryer lint, plant
materials, thread
4. Audio Experiment: HP, old audiotapes
5. Sky Meadow Play: HP from cotton rag and plant materials
I was born into a family of artists and have made art all my life
since I could hold a crayon. I have worked in the media of photography,
silkscreen and fabric design, collage, assemblage, sculpture and drawing.
I
first made paper in 1984 when I studied with Lillian Bell in Los Angeles, CA.
She taught a course on Handmade Paper from Plant Materials. That was the same
year I began to practice and study Tibetan Buddhism. I have made paper as much
as possible since then, and primarily used my papers for collage, as well as
utilizing pulp for casting to create sculptural forms. I graduated from U Mass,
Amherst in 1987 with a degree in Art Education. Many of my final sculpture
projects for my studio art classes incorporated cast paper.
In
1989 I graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. with a MA
degree in Clinical Art Therapy. Since then I have worked as an Art Therapist,
and psychotherapist, and my own art making has taken somewhat of a back seat
since. I was glad to recently find the Khandroling Papermaking Collective so I
could reconnect with an old love!
From
1999-2004 I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was an active member of the
Shambhala Buddhist Community there. While residing there, I taught several papermaking classes at the Nova
Scotia Center for Craft and Design, from 2001-2003. I have also taught
photography, silkscreen, and Art Therapy techniques.
I
currently live in Shelburne Falls, MA, and work at a community mental health agency
in Greenfield, MA.
Kichung Lizzee
6. Four Elements and Lotus Mantra
Ink wash on silk
In the
mid 60's to study art I came to America for my college
education from Korea. Among the many forms of Western art that I was introduced to, Abstract
Expressionism interested me most. Currently I am in the process of synthesizing
Eastern and Western approaches to art, to close the gap between East and West and to reach for
universal creativity. As an artist I rely
heavily on creative intuition. Moving with changes in the stream of
consciousness, my creative intuition somehow brings out the subconscious and
super conscious through artistic expression.
Art to me is an expression of an inner world and inner energies in the giving
of SELF. It is the recreation of the world. It brings invisible and
inexpressible dimensions to the surface using elements of design.
In order
to accomplish these purposes I find the brushes and papers of Eastern
calligraphy most effective. The brushes and papers are unforgiving, challenging
me to flow with the creative impulse and thereby convey the immediacy,
spontaneity and close proximity of an intimate connection with NATURE.
Sheryl Jaffe
[60% of sales goes to Khandroling Paper Cooperative)
7. The Frog Pond
Kozo, linen, iris, cotton and blue jean pulp and iris leaf with
ink and wax
$150.00
9. Moonrise, sunset
Monotype woodcut with stencils on kozo and
linen paper
$60.00
10. Listing in the Harbor
Monotype woodcut on kozo and linen paper
$60.00
11. Together
Monotype woodcut with stencils on Kozo and
horse radish paper
$100.00
12. Offering
Monotype on linen and kozo paper
$60.00
13. Breath
Collagraph monotype on kozo, linen and iris
paper
$60.00
From harvesting plants to inking up the wood there is a
continuous response, a call and response sort of dance. The thready fibers
clinging together, the breezes in the trees, the memories of the waves.
Attempting to become a unified whole. I try to incorporate the joy of
papermaking, spontaneous sloshing around in the vat of water with the sobering
permanence of ink and hand. Thank you for looking.
Ingmar Pema
Dechen
8. Visionary Works
These watercolor and ink pieces are mounted on gesso board and
sealed with archival uv protection varnish.
For sale: $50 with 100% going to Khandroling Paper Cooperative
Painting whimsical visions, energy blessings and cartoons
of dreams is my passion. I paint them as invitations for viewers to use
them as doorways into their own innermost nature.
Jacqueline Gens
14. O Floating World/Here Now/Gone Tomorrow
For sale by Donation with 100% going to the Dzogchen Community
Original poem calligraphy on torn handmade papers with flower
inclusions mounted on board. My inspiration as a poet and artist comes from
three decades of Buddhist training and the notion of “First Thought, Best
Thought coined by late Chogyam Trungpa and Allen Ginsberg as a sacred
exploration in pure perception with trust in the process to carry us into luminous
details of awakened mind/heart
Naomi Zeitz
15. Mandala
Encaustic collage with KPC paper mounted on board.
Naomi Zeitz studied
art at RIT and received a BA in studio art from the College of St Rose in
Albany NY where she focused on printmaking. In the last many years she has not
been making much artwork but became re inspired by paper making through the
Khandroling Paper Cooperative.
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Now in its 5th year, Khandroling Paper Cooperative
offers a variety of workshops and open studios year-round in handmade paper and
associated paper arts. As a community service, all our events are by
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