Uxbridge Studio Tour

What’s Going On?

| Lynne McIlvride

Lots!

A few months ago, my friend Tracy Walker did a photoshoot of me as one of the studio tour artists. It took all day and we laughed our heads off: a highlight of my summer.

They are gorgeous pictures but I still had a hard time looking at myself. I know I am not alone in this. I have always felt this way but suddenly I found it interesting. So I made myself look in the mirror and produced a myriad of sketches, some of which I made into painted relief carving and painted plywood shapes. I am now in the middle of a series of self-portraits which will be on show at the upcoming Uxbridge Studio Tour—September 19 and 20. I found it difficult to look in the mirror. The disappointed vanity soon turned into the deeper discomfort of staring down my SELF. How profound that we are SELVES. I feel my gaze becoming kinder toward this self the more I look.

Two other important things are happening: the Tinkl Book is on its way! There will be a limited number available to buy at the Tinkls’ studio Sept 19-20. The bulk of the books will be coming a little later. At that time you will be able to buy “Wild Tinkls” at Blue Heron Books, or on Amazon.ca or through your local bookstore. Please note: I will contact the donors waiting for their complimentary books. These will not be available to pick up during the studio tour. Email me if you have a question or if you’re coming to the studio Tour from a distance.

THIS JUST IN!!!! There will be a TINKL book-signing at the Blue Heron Bookstore in Uxbridge Ontario, Sunday October 18. 2-4. It will be WILD!

Lastly, my sister Kathie, is a professional calligrapher and a teacher of calligraphy. Firefly Books has just published a beautiful, practical how-to book called “Italic Calligraphy: From Learning the Fundamentals to Dancing with your Pen” by Kathie McIlvride. Buy at Blue Heron Books (book-signing in November) or order through your local bookstore, or purchase via amazon.ca, or at my studio during the Uxbridge Studio Tour September 19 and 20.

My 38th Uxbridge Studio Tour!!

| Lynne McIlvride

Available Work:

Escape 5’ x 5’ Acrylic on carved basswood and plywood $3000.00
Eye 20” x 20” Acrylic on carved basswood and plywood $800.00
BIRDSONG 2’ x 2’ acrylic on hand carved basswood and birch plywood $2000.00
QUICK PRAYER 2’ x 2’ acrylic on hand carved basswood and birch plywood $1500.00
CANADA 12’ x 12” acrylic and gold leaf on hand carved basswood $800.00
Through a Glass Darkly Acrylic on plywood $3000.00
SPLENDOUR 6” X 6” acrylic and gold leaf on hand carved basswood $400.00
FRAGILE WINGS 6” X 6” acrylic and gold leaf on hand carved basswood $400.00
ILLUMINATION 6” X 6” acrylic and gold leaf on hand carved basswood $400.00
STRONG WINGS 8” x 12”acrylic and gold leaf on hand carved basswood $600.00
SWOOP acrylic and gold leaf on plywood $600.00
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CENTRE acrylic and gold leaf on birch plywood $5000.00

How to visit an artist: (this info only applies to the 2020 Studio Tour. Appointments are not necessary for the 2021 Studio Tour)

| Lynne McIlvride
We are all trying to figure out how to do things differently, how to stay healthy and make the world as safe as possible for others without becoming completely neurotic hermits. I have been a part of the September Uxbridge Studio Tour for 30 years and we had to decide: should we cancel the tour this year? make the tour online only? should we be open by appointment? We decided to leave it up to individual artists to a certain degree. Nobody will be open in the normal drop-in kind of way. Some have decided to show only online on our website, many others, such as myself, have decided to be open by appointment, whether inside or outside their studios. I am excited about this because appointments worked very well for me in my “Easter in July” studio show. In fact, I preferred them! I had more opportunity to give people individual attention; I could pull work out I knew visitors were interested in; students could ask all sorts of questions; people were diligent about wearing masks. It was fun! I think this can work for the studio tour too. The thing is, it all depends on you wonderful people who actually go on the tour. This is going to take more organizing on your part but I think you will find it a much richer experience than the ordinary way of doing things. I would advise you to see which artists are open by appointment. See the Uxbridge Studio Tour website for that. Then figure out who you really want to visit. I would start making appointments as soon as possible because inevitably people will have to be turned down since the studio tour is only 2 days long: September 19-20. So start with who you would most want to see, contact those artists in whatever way they want to be contacted (see info on wesite) and work around those appointments. Make sure you know how long the artists expect you to stay and know the distance between your appointments since that can vary between 5 and 40 minutes! (consult google maps or ask the artist the distance between their studio and the previous artist on your appointment list.) Whether or not this works will in part hinge on visitors being on time–and on artists letting them leave. We are in this adventure together! I am attempting to write a daily post on facebook about all the Studio Tour artists this year. Join me there!

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.