Art Trip to Cyprus

A group of artists travelled to Cyprus at the invitation of Jeannie Peterson, who lived there and summered in North Hero, Vermont; where the group spends creative time together.  We enjoyed walking in the steps of Aphrodite.  Two pictures which reflect the fun that we have made it into one of my collages, created upon my return.  We took a group shot of us mimicking the statue of Aphrodite.  And another fun shot was sitting on the bench outside of a monastery with our legs crossed.  We had just been chastised by the “brothers” while we attended a service in the chapel for sitting with our legs crossed.  The resultant collage was created by me as a gift to my group of travelling friends. (Image to come)

Bad Girls

To produce this collage, I did an image transfer using a combination of techniques I had learned from workshops taken with Claudine Helmuth and Karlyn Holman. 

The second collage was made using collage papers which we produced using Citrasolve on old National Geographic magazines and then ripping and layering them using matt medium. (image to come)

 

 

 

Aphrodite's Birthplace in Cypress

And then there were the most amazing rocks.   We marveled, we collected, we loaded up our suitcases and I loved using them as inspiration for paintings when I returned. (Image to come)

Rocks on Cypress beach We took a rest day in Cypress, swam in the pool and sketched.cypress at pool

Katia Wilcox sketching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joyce Borthwick-Leslie sketching

Barbara Mooney not yet sketching

 

 

 

sketching in cyprus on rest day

We visited other artists and saw a range of mosaics, from those in produced during  B.C. and found in temple ruins and those adapted to contemporary art.   I will explore our mosaic adventures on the next page.  (to come).