Fractal Machinery

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Lianne Todd (artist)

I just wanted to say thank you to all the studio tourists who took their precious weekend time to drive out my way and visit my studio. It was a pleasure to meet you or see you again, and I had fun giving brief explanations of fractals and their significance when you showed an interest. If you want to see some more of them in person, right now there are four on display at the restaurant Sixthirtynine in Woodstock, ON. A very fine restaurant suitable for a special dinner date!

On the tour weekend I presented a few new fractals. This is one of them (watermarked):

Pretty Cogs in the Big Machine. Fractal Digital Art printed on metal, single edition. 24x24". $425.00 Lianne Todd

Pretty Cogs in the Big Machine.
Fractal Digital Art printed on metal, single edition. 24×24″.
$450.00 © Lianne Todd

This one doesn’t really reflect the natural world so much as it reflects our complicated man-made world. It’s not likely that most cogs in our machines are this pretty, but there is definitely a complexity in our modern technology that has beauty. Some of that complexity, for instance, is contained in the very machine you are viewing this on. Maybe there are no cogs, but the minutiae of its workings have to rival the intricacy they feature. The background of this piece could also be compared to the circuitry involved in some of our other more powerful pieces of technology. For instance, if you have a smart phone, the antenna that makes it all work had to be a fractal, or we simply wouldn’t have smart phones.

For a while I was referring to this image to myself as the steampunk fractal, as I have recently become enamored with all things steampunk. However, giving it such a title didn’t seem to really fit. These are far from steampunk-type gears, they aren’t real, and the machinery is not reminiscent of anything very old-fashioned. This is just a nod to the genre!

Oxford Studio Tour this coming weekend

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Lianne Todd (artist)

It seems that the first weekend of May has crept up on me and while I’ve been posting about the Oxford Studio Tour on my Facebook page and my Twitter account (@artnaturali), and on my other website, I neglected to do so here! It’s this coming weekend already and I hope you haven’t made other plans yet.

I will be in my gallery/studio which is Stop #7 on the tour, to welcome you all this weekend. Visitors will be flocking to Oxford County, Ontario to view, enjoy, and purchase art. I have an abundance to show. Many of my fractal paintings, photos, and original single edition prints will be here, and many of my original paintings of other subjects. These include watercolour paintings on traditional paper, on gesso-coated paper, and on yupo. I will have two brand new fractal metal prints on display, as well as a new piece printed on acrylic! In addition to this, there will be some new fractal photos, and some new non-fractal pieces in watercolour. Brochures for the tour are available at a number of locations – including here at my studio! To get you started, here is a map to my location. I’m about an hour from Hamilton/Burlington, an hour from London, or an hour from Kitchener/Waterloo.

P.S. I accept cash and cheques for purchases of my art – but not credit cards, sorry! (There is an ATM at the Royal Bank just down the street though).

Welcoming tourists!

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Lianne Todd (artist)

Welcoming tourists!.

via Welcoming tourists!.

Open Studio/Gallery

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Lianne Todd (artist)

On the third weekend in November, every year, we hold a studio tour in my town. Otterville is a historic town located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. This will be our 18th annual studio tour – we call it Welcome Back to Otterville – and every year the stops on the tour change slightly as the artists in town do. This year, there are eight stops on the tour, so it will be really easy to drive out, see all the stops, and return home if you live in, say, London, Kitchener/Waterloo, Stratford, or the western part of greater Toronto. It takes me less than an hour to drive to London, and about two hours to downtown Toronto, exactly an hour to Stratford. We aren’t on any major highway, but if you want directions please contact me and I’ll be happy to provide them.

If anyone reading this has been to my studio before, you will find this year quite different as I will be featuring my fractal work prominently. In fact, in the next few weeks I’ll be taking down all the art in my gallery at the rear of my house, and completely rearranging the walls to maximize the display. I always serve a lovely hot spiced cranberry punch during the tour, and I’m looking forward to the taste of it myself!

My gallery and studio are actually open all year to anyone who calls ahead or happens by on an afternoon when I’m home. I’ve just put a new sign out front (the old one suffered from weather damage) so you can easily find my location which is right on the Main Street downtown, just a few houses away from the historic mill and waterfall. Look for the yellow flags when you get here and use the map on the postcards (available at each stop) to help.

Here is some information for the tour, and a few photos.

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