Colour

Throughout this edition of SNAPline we’ve strived to reach a diverse range of voices and connect to ideas, philosophies, and practices of and about colour. These contributions go from the very local, as our feature Print Artist Taryn Kneteman reveals, to personal stories of identity & discovery in the works of Mitchell Chalifoux and Braxton Garneau. Anong Beam’s writing and generous sharing of family history tell a story of pigment discovery, creation, and the indigenization of naming, pointing to a difference in knowing a colour’s name to experiencing a colour through all senses past and present. The words and images shared within these pages speak to a connectivity to the power of expression found in colour in profoundly personal ways, yet the inky draw down applications illustrated in Barbara Balfour’s writing will summon in any printmaker a connection to their materials, that perfect meditative place of mixing ink, when you are anticipating the creation of an image before the potential anxiety and frustrations of actually making it so. From all of us at SNAPline, enjoy the Colour issue!

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Taryn KnetemanSNAPline featured artist: Taryn Kneteman
Taryn Kneteman lives and works in Edmonton, Canada. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of... 

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Spectral Apostropheby Barbara Balfour
Typographic interpretations of colour by Sergio Serrano.
 
I want to believe the fiction, in fiction, that the author i... 

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Belle of the Blue Ballsby Mitchell Chalifoux
Meet Belle of the Blue Balls, a vampish lady of the court. Modeled after turn-of-the-century female aristocrats, old Hollywood ... 

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On the Arrival of Glass Bookshopby Charlie Crittenden
“We need to open a bookshop,” Jason Purcell said to Matthew Stepanic over a glass of wine in the spring of 2018. “It need... 

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Gathering Colourby Anong Migwans Beam
Many of my earliest memories are encountering colour with my parents, both practicing artists, and learning to know them as for... 

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My Process – Braxton Garneauby Wendy McGrath
Garneau is the oldest sibling in his family and describes himself as a family “archiver.” He captures a moment in a Rembrandt-li... 

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