new work, not titled

forgot how much I love staining canvas

looking for sailor's art, found information on "woolies".

this is acrylic on raw canvas with thread (24"x24").

interesting so far as I may have found another way to increase the number of dimensions represented on my canvas surface.

something new, pedro series "all our failures"

clay, acrylic on primed canvas, 18"x24"

I recently began a series of paintings that function as an Ode to a person who I used to know and saw one day while sitting in a coffee shop. He had terribly declined in health and it is not clear now if it was even the person whom I thought it was. The series is still early in its development however; I am treating each canvas as an exploration into the idea of memorializing an image where this image also stands for the history of an image. What I find is required now is an exploration through several non–determined and intuitively lead explorations into materials that will trace time, ideas and attempt to show fleetingly, the thought process behind attempting representation and at the same time the need tp create a painting that seems to gasp the air around it from time to time. Going back to the stain seems to suit this need for immediacy and to provide the mystery of space and capture the past, memory, imagination and anything but the present. However, this could be a present or future in another dimension/universe.

Pedro, is my actor, he is a representation of a figure in a figurative painting. He is manipulatable, I use him and direct him like a puppet. We discuss painting and art in general, film, theatre, sculpture and he could be inserted here and there. He is dissolving into a new character.

new video still needs work but captures pedro in many stages of painting

some of the finished work in the studio

pedro as a young man, revised

just started this, an idea for a video but first I need to figure out the technical side.

today in the studio...

in progress

reshot less blurry

reshot, more focus

pedro as a young man

pedro's face was cut out and a new canvas emerges. i don't know what he would look like. but his aura might look like this....

thought I was done but made some further changes today...

Palette painting, a pillow for Pedro

Fool's Gold

today in the studio...

one painting started and possibly finished(palette painting)

the other images seen below are painted collages, likely to be digitally printed to canvas or paper in the near future, then mounted on canvas or board. (like the images on panel in the previous post)

today in the studio...

Palette(s) Painting (finished)

Pedro's portrait as a young man, now collage on canvas (finished)

giclee, acrylic on panel, 20"x24"

giclee, acrylic on panel, 16"x16'

part of the collage, taken down today, yet to be decided if this will become a printed digital image.

dream of the dancer, different colour, now oil, spray paint on canvas

(finished)

new paintings, part of "ode to pedro" series

Pedro's paintings,

he looked sick, sicker than usual

what were some of the things he used to say?

what were his dreams?

always felt like he loved me, not in a good way

I think he said it once to me

here they are for eternity

he was a fisherman

(the paintings are slow to evolve, some have been posted previously, but have recently been adjusted while in the studio)

Sitting with dog, 18"x24" oil on canvas

shot from the side, painting has too dry....30"x36" oil on canvas

Palette painting, same as before, but "landscape" format, 30"x36" oil on canvas

a collage I am building on the wall, will be photographed and printed to canvas

Updated C.V

Shelley Penfold

#413-10186 155^th Street

Surrey, BC V3R 0R6

skpenfold@hotmail.com

website: shelleypenfold.com

Education

2009, M.F.A, Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C

2003, B.F.A, Visual Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C

Solo Exhibitions

2010 “Shelley Penfold”, 2of2 Gallery, Toronto, ON

2009 “Wigner’s Friend, Main Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

2005 “Shifting Perspectives”, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Group Exhibitions

2009 MFA 2009, Legacy Gallery, Victoria, BC

2008 “1984”, University of Victoria, Main Gallery, Victoria, BC

2008 “Make Believe”, East Van Studios, Vancouver, BC

2008 “Residency Show”, Open Space, Victoria, BC, curated by Sally McKay

2005 “A Very Special Christmas Show”, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2005 “Evolution”, ECI Alumni Exhibition (juried exhibition), Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, B.C

2003 “ECIAD Graduation Show”, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver BC

2003 Figurative Painting Exhibition, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC

2002 “Figuring Painting” Basic Inquiry Studio, Vancouver, BC

1999 Annual Student Graduation Exhibition, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC

Publications

2009 “Studio Space” MFA 2009 Thesis Exhibition Catalogue, Kitty Scott

2005 “Evolution” ECI Alumni Exhibition Catalogue

2005 “Critics Pick”, Clint Burnham, The Province Newspaper, November 25, 2005

Corporate Collections

Central One Credit Union (10 commissioned paintings) 1441 Creekside Drive, Vancouver, BC.

Awards and Grants

2008 University of Victoria Travel Grant

2008 Jessie Allan Forsythe Scholarship

2008 Audrey St. Denys & M.E Johnson Scholarship

Teaching Experience

2009 - Current Art Institute of Vancouver, Drawing and Colour Theory, Art Foundations Instructor, Vancouver, BC

2009 University of Victoria, Sessional Instructor, 2^nd year Painting, Victoria, BC

It has been awhile since I posted...here are a few new works in progress.

digital print on canvas 16"x26"

oil on canvas 30"x36"

digital print on canvas, 12"x12"

new paintings completed at the start of summer.

Bust, oil on canvas, 16"x20"

"the hills", oil on canvas, 18"x24"

Mapping and colour effecting how a person or landscape or anything is read. A made up soft science based loosely on phrenology but with a mind/body connection. Colour contaminates and Goethe's ideas are still present. However, colour is also playing a role as the "Shaper" which provides meaning in addition to paint and the image.

three sisters, oil, collage, spray paint on canvas, 14"x18"

three sisters, first completion

red,white and blue, oil, spray paint on canvas, 16"x20"

from "The Shaper", by Wallace Stevens.

"Paul Rosenfeld was a shaper who lived a life of shaping, that is to say, a Schopfer, who lived for the sake of Schopfung. Perhaps there existed for him an ideal Schopfung, a world composed of music, but which did not whirl round in music alone; or of painting, but which did not expand in color and form alone; or of poetry, but which did not limit itself to the explication oprhique of the poet. But whether or not there was an ideal Schopfung, in which everything coalesced, toward which everything converged, the truth about him seem to be that he was incessantly engaged or involved or attracted by the activity of shaping."

Pertaining to the latest work, the portraits, the still life, everything in the last few months. SP

A few photos from the 2of2 Gallery show, April 2010

Link to show at 2of2 Gallery, Toronto, On

2 of 2 Gallery

DAVID MCDOUGALL & SHELLEY PENFOLD April 15 – May 22, 2010 Opening reception Thursday, April 15, 5-8 pm 2 of 2 Gallery 254 Niagara Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 2L8 tel: +416-591-6464 info@2of2gallery.com www.2of2gallery.com hours Wednesday - Saturday 12 noon - 5pm or by appointment

The Age Dependent, 2009, Hydrocal, H 48 x W 30 x L 24” Bouquet, oil on canvas, 30”x36”

2 of 2 Gallery | 254 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 2L8 | 416-591-6464 | info@2of2gallery.com | www.2of2gallery.com