The Gunflint Trail Historical Society (GTHS), is excited to welcome two Artist-in-Residents to the Gunflint Trail. Kim Gordon and Don Luce’.
With artistic eagerness, they will explore the Gunflint Trail looking for that special setting, composition, and golden hour light, which gives them inspiration for their next piece of creativity.
Kim Gordon, who lives in Minneapolis Minnesota, has a connection to the GTHS through her long friendship and professional relationship with Bill and Sue Douglas. She has volunteered for GTHS by serving on the Artist in Residency Task Force where she was instrumental with advice and knowledge from her many experiences with Artist residencies and exhibits.
Inspired by landscape, light, and color, Kim is a Painter and Batik Artist. Batik is the ancient technique of wax resists and layers of pigmentation.
Batik is one of the oldest ways to create patterned fabric besides weaving together threads of different colors. It uses a fluid pigment or dye and a “resist” – hot wax – to slowly build designs. The pigment is applied in layers, from lightest to darkest, and the hot wax is selectively applied to areas where the artist wishes to retain that color or value. The wax “resists” subsequent layers of pigment. By layering pigment and wax, one gradually can increase color and value range. Each layer of wax protects what is underneath it. This way a complex image can be created. The brush strokes visible in these batiks are not strokes of pigment but are strokes made with melted wax protecting a pigment layer.
Kim Gordon will be available to talk about Batik, at Chik-Wauk on September 15, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
