Process & Ongoing Research – D'Andrea Bowie

Process & Ongoing Research

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A great birthday, teaching and grinding🥳 wrappi

A great birthday, teaching and grinding🥳 wrapping up ♏️ Scorpio season 🔥⚡️

Weekend iron pour w the super crew @cscia20 hosted

Weekend iron pour w the super crew @cscia20 hosted by @vaahartspaces at @yorkuniversity

Thx @brandonvickerd for a great event, fearless leadership AND taking time to show us how to build a sand cast mold, excited for some iron pie 🥧! Was a fantastic day of community and learning new things!

Many months in the works, Michael and I are excite

Many months in the works, Michael and I are excited to be moving into a bright studio attached to a 160 yr old schoolhouse graced by the most beautiful 🍁 maple trees.

Thanksgiving this year is feeling especially poignant as we reflect w gratitude on the past four years of living and loving in our current home. ❤️🙏

Between Michael’s rocks and my kilns it has been a massive endeavour- thankfully we are only shuffling gear a few km’s up the road. With artists losing precious studios in the city and pressure on farm land by developers we are feeling super grateful to have secured a studio w room to grow. Perched on a hill surrounded by cornfields- yet still able to spot the skyline, we are looking forward to settling in and observing how our environs expands a practice.

Teaching at York and attending Penland has me thinking alot about the importance of creating space for artists to learn solid skills when working with materials. Workshops? Residencies? Art camp? We will see!

@michaelbelmore #artcamp

Staying with process, alchemy and material transfo

Staying with process, alchemy and material transformation…New Zealand wine bottle into something new (slide 2 and 3) decay, regrowth.. attempts on solidifying all the glass things I learned this summer @penlandschool 🍀🌱🥬

Cooking foods, glass, dogs, wax, family, walks, we

Cooking foods, glass, dogs, wax, family, walks, weekends 4 evah, love this weather in the country ❤️ missing my gal 😭 @dejas_colouringbook we love u 🥰 and miss u !! Not enjoying that rag weed 👁️ 🔥;(

kids off to school 🏫 grade 12 and 6! Busting my

kids off to school 🏫 grade 12 and 6! Busting my ❤️ open! (permission granted for pics!) Deja in Sweden and Jax downtown !

Moving… transitions are never easy but offer the

Moving… transitions are never easy but offer the elusive gift of perspective, visiting work I barely remember painting (maybe 10 -15 yrs ago?) but finding links to a preoccupation with surface, texture, voids and materiality- an undercurrent throughout 🧶

Outtake from affordance series showed up in my mem

Outtake from affordance series showed up in my memories (7 yrs ago!!) juxtaposed w crystal led casting work from this summer. Feeling this as my most amazingly strong and beautiful daughter prepares to spend 10 months in Sweden. How do we hold on, shape and mould those we love when letting go is just as important? May my love🤍 carry on as a sort of invisible mother mould, encircling gently as she finds her own shape. 🩶🤍🩶

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A small test fresh outta kiln A continuation fro

A small test fresh outta kiln

A continuation from research/fixation with Faience after seeing it in museums around the world 🌎… my attempts towards making my own version. She’s a gnarly beaut! ❤️‍🔥

A quote from the web.. ‘Faience first appeared at the end of the fifth millennium B.C. and has occurred in various forms up to the present day. It may have been invented in the ancient Near East following the development of an alkaline glaze on quartz stones. Its technological refinement and major triumphs, however, are displayed in Egyptian art.

Making glazes, working w mud, silica, and the elements (grit! Fire!) helps me feel connected to alchemy and our natural world. (And possibly a shared ancient path?) So much is possible!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

It’s a long one but feeling the feels.. (might d

It’s a long one but feeling the feels.. (might delete later!) I made lots of strides @penlandschool w @danielclayman in glass casting but this test is sitting in my heart as I return home to an unfortunate flood. 🌊 (have been spamming stories w memories!) The glass is from a kombucha bottle I bought on the trip down with 😍 my sweetie @michaelbelmore thru the earth works of Ohio, such a great road trip exploring ancient sites- juxtaposed with the @americansignmuseum in Cincinnati!! (You gotta go!) then hiking in the rhododendron heavy hills of West Virginia.

thx for copper gifted via best studio pal @kendall.a.reiss and then @brynnalexis for saving my impatient soul from de-investing too soon by wrapping it in the coziest-pink towels! 🧺 thx to @calbreedartist an amazing glass blower who showed true humility while learning new things and was consistently there w Alabama wisdom👊🏻👊🏻(let’s go fer a rip!) always open and curious to new things and our ladies of @molten_reflections the kindest, most open souls that I’m super privileged to have met. ❤️❤️❤️

Midnight Rick is not on insta but I hope to see his crazy stuff soon! @wilkins.lily our core fellow was a steady eddy and such a joy to see them take the material into beautiful places and zoom forward!! 💫💫💫💫

We also had the bestest studio assistants @morgangilb who didn’t lose her cool while we made mould after mould and @katewaitwhat who shared her gift of the gang mould!! @kellyofthedell and @ravenskyriver thx for letting yr son hang w us, he did a great job w cutting wire and sharing his super cool 😎 playlist, I’ll always look at this and be reminded that community and making with others is way more important than the finished thing.

Such a gift, that a small chunk of vitrified glass and copper can carry so much feeling, forever changed, forever grateful 🥹 🙏🩷 @thx again @danielclayman for sharing and offering knowledge.

Less I forget, the cooks @penlandschool so amaze, I rolled in and out daily for the best eats, truly, 🥹 this mom of many kids is super grateful 👵🏼🙏💫

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Made it home 💜 looking 👀 at two intense wee

Made it home 💜 looking 👀 at two intense weeks of new glass work, making plans..

Cast glass and pate de verre. Super tired but exci

Cast glass and pate de verre. Super tired but excited about learning new processes to articulate this series (that I’ve been wanting to see in glass since I started on them years ago!)💡 thank you @danielclayman for sharing your expertise and for a fantastic 2 weeks @penlandschool lots of love to my glass casting crew, a pleasure learning and laughing alongside you all!! 🩷✨🩷 what a magical place!

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I made my first glass cast in 2015 (with so much h

I made my first glass cast in 2015 (with so much help from @pierre.bouchard.glass 🙏) and have been asking it tentative questions since. When I saw a glass casting workshop with @danielclayman @penlandschool I jumped at the chance. Feeling lucky 🍀 to be here in the mountains with dedicated time to learning, making, thinking, connecting w material and the artist community here ⛰️ 🌈🩷

Behold! Rocks and trees 💚

Behold! Rocks and trees 💚

Opening tonight @artmur in Montreal ! A selection

Opening tonight @artmur in Montreal ! A selection of art from MFA programs across Canada 🍁 I am currently traveling so missing out but a few pieces from my thesis on exhibit will represent ✨ Dandelion wine in glass and copper and Birds of Paradise in bronze. Check out my cohort @chaneldesrochesart @elisavitafineart @shannynreidart

Beauty day in Ohio exploring ancient monumental ea

Beauty day in Ohio exploring ancient monumental earthworks- Serpent Mound and Hopewell sites. Just how ancient these sites are can be a hot topic, some date them at 2,000 yrs old however there is compelling evidence to suggest much older… the precision of the shapes in relation to the stars ✨ is mind blowing 🤯 ! ⚡️💚

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