My name is Rachael Ashe. I am a visual artist, currently living in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
I am a photographer, mixed-media collage, and altered book artist.
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I’d almost forgotten about processing and sharing the rest of my photos from the Tulip Festival I went to a few weekends ago. It’s been mostly overcast and rainy here lately so the eye-blasting colour is a pleasure to look at.
A full set of my photos from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival can be viewed as a slideshow on Flickr.
On the weekend Boris and I did a day trip across the border into Washington to see the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. It was a warm sunny day, perfect for spending time outside looking at masses of flowers.
When we drove up to our first stop (a farm with giant fields of yellow and red tulips) my mind was a bit blown even though I knew what to expect. It’s one thing to see pictures, and quite another to have such intense colours shining back at you and stretching on into the horizon.
What you can’t see here are all the other people hanging about wandering through the flowers. I managed to make it look as if we had the place to ourselves.
I have more photos to upload and will be adding them to this set on Flickr.
I went on a road trip to Seattle last Thursday with two friends who are also artists. The whole thing came about because the previous week I’d mentioned to said friends a show I wanted to see in Seattle, Morgan Brig at Patricia Rovzar Gallery. The next thing I knew we were going on an road trip to see art, including the Gauguin show at the SAM, and any other shows that took our fancy.
It was a fun day with Robi and Val. Besides the galleries we visited there were also stops at two local art supply shops, and one of my favorite book shops in the world, Elliot Bay Book Company. They’ve relocated to Capital Hill since the last time I visited and it seemed like the whole neighbourhood was blocks of interesting shops and restaurants.
Below are photos of some of the things I came across in Seattle that inspired me.
I love it when a plan spontaneously erupts out of nowhere – especially when it involves art.