Teamworks in Process

06 Nov 2025

October 30 - November 14, 2025

Marie Boal
Erin MacKeen
Heather Phillips
Megan Bray

We are all members of the artist team that runs ARTiculations Art Supply. This exhibition is a snap shot of what we’re each individually working on in our own art practices at this moment in time. Some are works in progress, others more complete.

Marie Boal

How do I see myself? These are explorations in acrylic, ink and pencil of my dreams and the blanket of sadness. They are very much in progress, but also, at this moment, they mark a pause in the examinations of the stillness of what lies underneath.

Erin MacKeen - Alchemical Studies

The tree sketch on kraft paper was made with pencil, a Deep Sepia Pitt Marker, and homemade black walnut ink. I made this while we were away together in the forest as a team over Thanksgiving and it has served as a reference for the carving/drawing that is in process on the Artist’s Conk fungi that I collected on the same trip the previous year. I used the same homemade black walnut ink to colour the bracket fungus.
The tiny crocheted vessel is made from cotton yarn that I dyed with an acorn cap dye I made this year from foraged materials, including the tiny acorn it holds safely inside.
The Goldenrod wool card is needle felted with wool roving that I died with goldenrod collected from my garden this Fall. The thread is dyed with deep purple Buckthorn berries that I collected from a friend’s cottage that surprised me with a vibrant green dye. It’s finished with a lavender scallop crochet border in cotton yarn.
The boat is called the SS Hermit and is my artistic interpretation of The Hermit card from the tarot. It was first drawn digitally and then transferred to Iron Oxide Pink Mitsumata paper with Pitt Pen and Acrylic Ink. It’s installed on a slender piece of driftwood from my collection so it can hang like a sign. This version was a test I made before creating a final piece that was submitted to The Japanese Paper Place’s “On Colour” online exhibit.
A delicate felted white mushroom sculpture with beaded dew drops looks plucked from the forest floor.
The four felt cards are cut from a thrifted wool sweater that had been donated because someone had already “felted” it in the washing machine. The mushroom images are felted with roving, tiny beads, and a cotton yarn crocheted border.
The bird sculpture was made with paper clay and painted with Acrylic Gouache. It is the guardian of all the other pieces.

www.erinmackeen.com

Heather Phillips - Swimming Studies

Swimming Studies is a series of small panel paintings that focus on the act of a solo swim - wading, floating, dipping, swimming. They are part of an ongoing body of work titled Strong Swimmer

These swimmers appear in imagined waterscapes that emerge from the wood grain. I respond intuitively to the patterns I see, and allow the grain to dictate the current. In its own way, this reflects the push-and-pull of a beginning a swim: discomfort giving way to presence.

I continue to reflect on my life-long relationship with swimming. It is a practice that has shaped my physical, emotional, and creative life. Through leisure, competition, lifeguarding, teaching, and solitary swims, swimming has become both a method of endurance and a form of clarity. I’m infinitely curious how that embodied experience flows into the process of making through movement, repetition, resistance, and immersion.

Megan Bray

Tala’s Cecropia - gouache (limited primary palette of cyan, magenta, yellow, and white).
Our Neighbour Phil - gouache portrait of a local pigeon taken in for some wing repair.
Moths - marker and colour pencil flatlay (and vinyl stickers pinned above).
Mushrooms - a recent marker and colour pencil illustration made into prints.
Willow - colour pencil portrait of a neighbour while experimenting with new pencils.
Portrait sketch - graphite pencil sample sketch while teaching portraits & people.
Sickener Mushroom - gouache study with sketches and notes.

All materials used are from the shop: Etchr & Talens books, Holbein gouache, Faber Castell & Holbein colour pencils

www.meganbray.com / @megan.bray

MARIE BOAL