Intentional

This is my current project, a slow process of making acrylic on canvas paintings.

When I moved back to Ontario from BC a few months ago, my car was so packed I had to remove two large blank canvases from their frames and roll them up to squeeze them into a small space. The other day, I decided to start a new project so I unrolled them on our patio table to play outside with my acrylic paints. Messy and fun to do. One turned out to look like a tablecloth or shower curtain and the other looked overdone like a forgotten steak on the BBQ, neither destined for the Louvre, I know. However, it was my intention to create varying sized pieces of mosaics from the start. honestly 😂 Mosaic pieces are often a ‘go to’ when recycling some paintings I have done. My only ambition is fun. As you can see, I am only in the cutting phase of paint, cut, paste and display. I’ll probably add other surprise (to me) elements as I sometimes do. I’m in no hurry so will post more photos later perhaps.

Recycling My Painting

Acrylics on canvas. One of four mosaics.
I understand that today is World Wildlife Day. God bless all creatures on Earth both wild and tame. 🤗🙏🥰

Something Old Something New

Something Old, Something New

Creating something New from something Old

is an art, a skill, a pragmatic passion that fills my heart and mind with joy.

Here, I employ cuts to rearrange change

so nothing is lost and there’s gain in transforming what I still value

from what others may toss as loss-

an acrylic painting becomes a mosaic in process.

Each piece is different, not the same, like snowflakes and people, even ‘look alikes’,

so when I really look, examine, I realize what (like who) looks the same, isn’t.

Life is full of differences and similarities

even in global commonalities and ambitions,

even in local structures and systems,

even in neighbouring nations and cultures.

My humble mosaic inspires my thoughts as I playfully create my art.

Love of Life guides me, inspires me with more Love

to bring out the best in me and so, I Do,

by creating and recreating myself anew.

(February 14, 2025- Shelley A. Wilson)

Three Simple Abstract Mosaics

This is the last in my series of three abstract acrylic mosaics with no subject planned or attended but it turned out to have three crosses in the composition, perhaps synchronized as a post before Good Friday though also unplanned. I find abstract art often speaks to my layered consciousness.
This is the second of my abstract acrylic mosaics made from some of my ‘recycled’ paintings. I didn’t aim for perfection in cutting mosaic pieces, some of which are little abstract paintings in themselves.
This is the first of my abstract acrylic mosaics previously posted a few weeks ago. Again, I made no attempt at ‘machine perfection’ here and it was all composed as a spontaneous abstraction. If there’s a message, it could be ‘I’m enjoying the Process and having Fun.’ 😁💕✨