A profile in the Georgia Straight's fall preview.

Had a lovely chat with Robin Laurence and she wrote this up.

Mulled wine, eggnog, toads!

I will have a few new pieces on view at Trench Gallery this month. Please join me and let's mull over art with some mulled wine. The opening is Saturday, December 10, 2011 from noon to 4pm. The gallery is located at #102 - 148 Alexander St.

Monomania review in the Georgia Straight...

The Georgia Straight's Robin Laurence had some kind words about my work currently up as part of the Monomania exhibit at Trench Contemporary Art...

Carrie Walker's recent little drawings of exotic animals (a hippo, a gorilla, a snarling African wildcat...), which she has surrealistically imposed upon old, anonymous pencil sketches and watercolours. The found images Walker employs as her grounds are mostly pastoral English landscapes to which she matches her style and medium, hilariously achieving a tension between the original scenes and their highly alien trespassers.

Monomania Exhibit at Trench Gallery

Holy crow, I almost forgot! On right now at Trench Contemporary Art is Monomania: An Organic Archive of the Terminal City Archive from 1949 until Now. A salon style extravaganza of Vancouver-based artists. Read more about the show here. The closing party is on Thursday, August 25, 2011 from 6:30pm til late. Trench is located at #102 -148 Alexander St.

Ocelot Elopes with Baby Budgie

A love affair, a kidnapping, a late night snack?

New Work at the New Trench Gallery

I will be exhibiting a few new drawings and watercolours in a group show at Trench Gallery this December. The opening is Thursday, December 2, 2010 at #102 - 148 Alexander St., Vancouver.

To While Away the Time

My first solo show at Jeffrey Boone Gallery opens this Thursday October 8, 6-9PM or visit at your leisure...
October 8 - November 7
Jeffrey Boone Gallery
1 East Cordova St. #140
Vancouver, BC V6A 4H3
604-838-6816



This project is a collaboration with unwitting partners. It began with an old, skinny, ring-bound sketchbook that I’d purchased in a thrift store in Chilliwack. Its pages were filled with faint pencil drawings of mountains, trees, streams and solitary cabins as well as quaint montages of windmills, water pumps, birds on branches and arched stone bridges. Contemplating these sketches, I decided that these somewhat impoverished landscapes required life. With a disregard for plausibility, I started drawing animals into the scenes - a falcon perched, wings outspread, on a bridge over a small town; a bighorn sheep the size of the cabin it stands beside; prairie dogs calling to one another across a brook in the forest.
Once I’d filled the pages of this found sketchbook, I began to search out other drawings with which to meddle. Ebay proved to be a fair source of drawings. I limited my purchases to landscapes, cityscapes and some interiors in pencil and watercolour. My purchases began arriving in the mail and I continued with my work. The resulting collection of drawings and paintings range greatly in quality and style and are dated back as far as 1850.
All of these drawings come to me second hand and seem to have been more or less discarded at some point by someone and I consider my reworking of them to be an act of rehabilitation or rescue. Using the existing landscapes as a springboard, I apply pencil and paint and find my own style greatly influenced by the marks of the other artists. The animals I’ve added are both out of context and out of scale so that the resulting drawings becoming fragments of fantastical narratives, of stories half told.

I am grateful for the support of the BC Arts Council.

Drawn and ReDRAWN

I will be exhibiting a few drawings this summer at Jeffrey Boone Gallery alongside the work of Anna Plesset and Biliana Velkova. The theme of this exhibit, titled ReDrawn, is the artists' use of drawing as a form of appropriation. It is part of the citywide drawing festival, DRAWN. The works I will be showing are a number of reworked drawings by one Emily Franey. The original drawings are dated from the mid-1800's but there has been some doubt as to their authenticity. They don't feel that old, only one of the dozen or so of her drawings that I acquired is significantly yellowed and there is an odd consistency to the quality of the lines which has led to discussions with a few people about the possibility that they are tracings. A minor mystery of no consequence. The original drawings, regardless of their origin, are lackluster.

Show is on from July 16 - August 15th. The opening is Friday, July 24, 6-9.
1 East Cordova Street unit 140, Vancouver, BC

No dominance exists in the coterie at Christmas.

This seasonal mash-up contains one found drawing with ground squirrel then photoshopped with text and Ben Reevesesque snowflakes.

also...

I've designed a number of album covers for Jason Zumpano's band Sparrow. This isn't the most recent as those in the know will know, his band's name now being Attics and Cellars. I was going for a Penguin Book cover look with this one. The image is from a series of drawings where I'm working on found drawings. Generally speaking, in this body of work, I've added animals into existing landscapes. Here is another drawing from that series...

oh, and by the way, you can download that album from zunior for only $8.88!