Welcome to my World!

| Lynne McIlvride

Hello. I have been continuing my theme of “Epiphanies” which I will be happy to show you at The Uxbridge Studio Tour, September 14 and 15. More beadwork, more woodcarving, more colour riots. Francis Muscat was in my studio the other day and and described the series as Psychadelic Baroque.

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This last one is a video. Click to see on instagram. All work is handcarved basswood with inlaid glass beadwork and acrylic paint. Oil paint is added to some and many have gold leaf applied. Here is a LINK to the Uxbridge Studio Tour Brochure. I will have extras you can pick up at my studio. I am Site 24: last but not least!! My guest artist is magnificent ceramic artist, Ann Cummings.

Price List : Toronto Artist Project 2019

| Lynne McIlvride

Here is my Artist Project price list. Thumbnail images will correspond to work at The Artist Project 2019 BOOTH 606.

 

 

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1. Do you see what I see?

Carved basswood, acrylic and oil paint, glass beads

2019

12” x 12”

$750.00

 

 

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2. Dancing Cross

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

12” x 12”

$750.00

 

 

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3. Holy Roller

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2019

12” x 12”

$750.00

 

 

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4. Modest Epiphany

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

12” x 12”

$ 750.00

 

 

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5. Unexpected Sign (A Rush of Wings)

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2019

12” x 12”

$ 750.00

 

 

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6. Arms Extended

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

12” x 14”

$ 700.00

 

 

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7.Angels on the Ceiling

Carved basswood, acrylic and oil paint, glass beads

2019

12” x 12”

$800.00

 

 

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8. O Mary Don’t You Weep: homage to Aretha

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

9” x 9”

$ 750.00

 

 

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9. Wings Unfurled

Carved basswood, acrylic on paper and wood, glass beads

2019

24” x 24”

$1500.00

 

 

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10.At the still point of the turning world

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads, gold leaf

2018

8” x 8”

$400.00

 

 

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11. Yellow

Carved basswood, acrylic on paper and wood, glass beads, gold leaf

2018

7.5” x 7.5”

$400.00

 

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12. Held

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

6.5” x 6.5”

$400.00

 

 

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13. Holy Blue

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass  beads

2018

5” x 5”

$300.00

 

 

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14. Garden Variety Angel

Carved basswood acrylic paint, glass beads

2018

7.5” x 7.5”

$400.00

 

 

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15. God Bless This Globe

Mixed media with carved painted basswood and beadwork

2019

33” x 33”

$2000.00

 

 

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16. Summer

Acrylic paint on paper, oil on glass

2018

8” x 8”

$600.00

 

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17. Peace

Watercolour on paper, oil paint and gold leaf on glass

2018

7.5” x 7.5”

$400.00

 

 

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18. Spring come quick: I’m cold!

Watercolour on 3-D paper, acrylic on wood, grandma’s knitting

2017

7” x 7”

$500.00

 

 

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19. Sleepwalking

Watercolour on 3-D paper, acrylic on wood, fabric

2017

7.5” x 8.5”

$500.00

 

 

 

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20. Travelling Mercy

Watercolour on 3-D paper, oil and gold leaf on glass and frame

2016

14” x 11”

$700.00

 

 

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21. Annunciation

Watercolour and acrylic on paper sculpture, oil on glass

2016

13” x 6”

$700.00

 

 

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22. Entwined

Acrylic paint on carved basswood

2019

7” x 7”

$400.00

 

I’ve been thinking…

| Lynne McIlvride

I like to think I’m in this for the long haul. You know, like Bob Dylan. I’ve been selling paintings for about 40 years and I could do so for 40 more!!! Who knows!? I wonder sometimes where my work is and how it is doing. As a mixed media artist, over the years I’ve experimented with a lot of different kinds of adhesives etc. I’d like to make it clear that if somebody bought something even years ago and it starts to become unglued or undone in any way, arrange to leave it with me in my studio and if it is fairly minor (or clearly my fault), I will do my best to fix it–no charge! If it’s a major thing like the Christmas tree scraped the encaustic off a painting or you threw one at your ex, then I will still try to fix it but I might charge you a bit. Email me to arrange a time: LynneMcilvride@icloud.com.

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Epiphany

| Lynne McIlvride


After decades of art-making, I am still delighted when I am led into an unanticipated direction. I’ve always liked wood. (Who doesn’t?!) But my past experience has been limited to woodblock carving for prints. In the commission I finished last year for ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Help’ Church, I incorporated relief woodcarving into the frames. The placement of the commissions in the niches of the church and their content of the presence and workings of the Holy Spirit all sent me back to a way of art-making from years ago before the tornados hit that was characterized by hope and the munificence of God. This is timely I think because surely we are living in an appalling and absurd time in need of hope.

I fell in love with woodcarving doing this commission

I’ve always loved symmetry, especially imperfect symmetry where carved pattern is revealed and then lost but still the intention of the pattern remains. I also love the shape of the equilateral cross with its reference to life and death; arm-stretching cosmic hugs; whirligigs and flowers with stillness at their centers; the crucifixion and the flowering resurrection. My friend and I were talking about the small epiphanies of childhood–instances when we sensed an invitation from God: the comfort and mystery of a statue of Virgin and Child on a well-frequented path; wind animating the tops of trees; a song about the magi breaking into a child’s sad night. As I do these small dense painted carvings, I realize they represent hints of hope; modest epiphanies. They allude to those moments that happen in the blink of an eye, brief and easily missed but if you manage to pay attention, life-changing.

The Epiphany series will be shown at the Artist Project Toronto February 21-24, 2019

For more images from the series click here.

Commission Part 2!

| Lynne McIlvride

I am very happy and quite relieved to be finished the second part of my commission for “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” church, Toronto.

I have to say, I love this painting. These two paintings/constructions have pushed me into an interesting direction involving wood carving and beadwork. I am just beginning this series but a few are available at my studio this coming weekend, September 15-16 for the UXBRIDGE STUDIO TOUR. Here is a preview: