Models Rebecca and Daniela styled by Heather Jude wearing my upcycled designs.
Shot in the studio at Doris Land.
Published in Malvie Magazine The Artist Edition Vol 608.
Each piece featured my continuous line drawings placed on a thrifted piece of clothing.
Some feature a silkscreened image that I designed by hand.
This collection is hitting the runway on May 21 and I can’t wait to see what the reaction will be.
A wonderful fan took a stack of my stickers to Europe on her vacation and put them everywhere.
Then they took photos, printed them and gave them to me. HOW COOL IS THAT?!
Thank you Marilyn, you are one of a kind.
So excited to have another collaboration with the Hive Print Shop for this holiday season.
A traditional 80’s Boom Box T for your vintage vibe T collection.
Get yours here.
‘Part of our ongoing collaboration with local artist Deanna Flinn. Her illustration of a classic boombox in blue ink looks amazing on these made in Canada – 50/50 Ring Spun Poly/Cotton mustard tees.
Hand-screen printed and designed in Vancouver, Canada.’
Live painting in the Duer Flagship Store October 26, 2022, 11-3. Come by and say Hi!
Read MoreThanks to an army of friends I was able to make a lookbook of my merch.
Here is the text that will be featured in the 14-page final.
Welcome, I am so thrilled to share this Look Book with you. This is an accumulation of the past 5 years.
I have shopped second-hand for most of my adult life and I love it. I started to make continuous line drawings of my images and the lines began to jump off the page. It seemed only natural to put those lines on clothing. William Blake has a quote he created just after the Book of Ruth and it is one that has inspired my work with lines.
'The great and golden rule of art, as well as of life is this: That the more distinct, sharp and wiry the bounding line, the more perfect the work of art: and the less keen and sharp, the greater is the evidence of weak imitation, plagiarism, and bungling... Leave out this line and you leave out life itself; all is chaos again, and the line of the Almighty must be drawn out upon it before man or beast can exist. We know each other by our lines.' William Blake
I see the lines of my work as symbols of the connection between each piece that eventually accumulates into a final creation ready for view.
The lines are what hold us and what extend us to each other, without them there is chaos.
I am a multidisciplinary artist who has called Vancouver home for over 16 years. I began taking photos at 12 years old when I got my first point and shoot film camera. I grew up in Halifax with a family full of artisans. I am an editorial and portrait photographer who began using my photos to create continuous line drawings and used those lines to create a collection.
It took an army to help me bring this project to life and to say I am grateful to all of the hands who helped would be an understatement. Producing this book to share this part of my practice with you holds the intention of sharing my passion. This book is just one chapter of many to come and I can't wait to share it with you.
Thank you.
Credits Page
Photography and Creative Direction, Deanna Flinn
@freeadmission @deanna_flinn_photography
Seamstress
Samantha Tran
Models
Xandria, Lauren, Tijana, Sam, Syd, Noah, Sisi
Location
Vancouver, BC
Layout and Design
Emily Choi
Shot on film purchased at Beau Photo, Vancouver, BC.
Film developed and scanned at Rocket Reprographics, Vancouver, BC.
All clothing is purchased at thrift stores and each design featured is drawn by hand by Deanna with original inspiration from photographs she created.
Silkscreening done at The Hive Printing, Vancouver, BC and fabric for original pieces like the Cape and Backpack sourced from Our Social Fabric, Vancouver, BC.
It has been 8 days now and I am so happy I decided to do this residency. The summer was getting swallowed up by my serving gig and a lot of useless worry about the future.
This residency has helped me flip a switch and I am so grateful. I have been drawing, working with new mediums, trying new things and giving a daily recap on my instagram stories. I would love to have you come along on this journey with me, it is helping me grow artistically and many of the viewers are asking questions and engaging. I am thrilled you are here watching and even more grateful for your questions.
I have been drawing. I went pasting with 35 prints I made from a silkscreen I created at Blim. I have been trying to figure out how to work with spray paint. I have a photoshoot once a week and used some expired polaroid for the shoot. I have also been spending the mornings sending out marketing material before I begin the daily residency tasks. I make a list and usually accomplish what is on that list, sounds keen and fancy I know but I am realistic, it has been hot AF here and I have been doing my best to pace myself and work within an 8 hour day.
I will finish on September 3rd and have been accepted into a two-week artist residency in Sutton Montreal. I am so glad I took this time to do a virtual one to figure out a flow, schedule and give myself goals to work with.
My goal is to use the Vogue prints I have made, so far I have 6, and put vellum over top and add my lines. I want to have a show of these, to paint 1 live during the opening and also release an NFT that has animated lines. It is all about the lines.
Have I shared with you the quote from William Blake from the book Fake like Me? Read It! It is so good.
Here’s the quote, the response is ‘we know each other by our lines’.
If you think about how a line connects us that is the same idea behind me making my lines. The connection of people and intention that go into creating a shoot and then taking final images and making drawings is a final step for me in recognizing all of the people that are involved in the process. You can draw a line to mark a journey, these lines mark the steps and people who made them possible in one continuous process.
