Opening @ Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden

Vancouver's Chinatown. Saturday, June 16th. Pelting rain.


Ashley Haynes, one of the guests at the opening of Lotus in Motion, The Colour of Life took this photo. Thank you Ashley!





Emily Halloran, Ashley Haynes, Tim Furness, Eden, Gord Halloran, Ari Lazer, Deanna.












Thank you to volunteers: Rick Wang, Eugenie Leenhardt. Musicians: Tian Zhang and Joanna Wang.Photos: Caitlin Hicks & Susan Ma.

Susan Ma photographs LOTUS opening @ Sun Yat Sen Garden

It rained. But what a perfect place to be on a wet day;covered passageways kept us all dry. And indoors, tea, cookies, music. More photos with credits to come.

Lotus in Motion, The Color of Life

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden Classical Chinese Garden

June 1st - July 30, 2012

Opening reception: Saturday June 16th 3 - 5 PM

Lotus in Motion, The Color of Life shows at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Garden in June and July. Artist Gordon Halloran's floating painting installation was inspired by Claude Monte's impressionist water lilies, calving icebergs and overlapping organice textures of landscape flora.



Enjoy the natural movement of the round paintings as they float atop the water -- affected by currents, breeze, rain and the movement of birds and insects in the garden environment.

Resplendent with summer glory, each composition glows with layering of pattern and hue whose origins proliferate in nature. Wing and leaf, feather and petal, pond life, flora and fauna - all resonate, all blossom on the radiant surface of Lotus.

Paris, The Tuileries

As part of Jardins, Jardin, Eliane Cumet of Pastille presented Lotus in Motion outside the Louvre at the beginning of June.

Install at Dr.Sun Yat Sen Garden

May 31, in the the quiet of the late afternoon at the Scholar's Garden, Gord tethered lotuses and set them afloat in the jade waters of classical Chinese garden of the Ming Dynasty, downtown Vancouver.

Indoors, Susan Mah helped us install the wall paintings. Opening: June 16th 2:30 - 4:40 PM.

Roberts Creek Arts Festival * May long weekend

GORDON HALLORAN studio is featured in the first inaugural Roberts Creek Arts Festival, held during the May 19 - 20. 2 days of music, art, film & food at 7 Roberts Creek venues, showcasing local and international talent.

Within the hidden forests along the beaches of the Sunshine Coast in Roberts Creek are some of Canada’s foremost contemporary artists and creators: painters, musicians, sound artists, film makers, sculptors and designers. Surrounded by nature, equipped with technology, they contribute to the global, creative,social, and material culture.

Each of the 7 beautiful venues will be filled with creativity, performances, delicious local food & drink, and engaging people throughout the weekend.

ABOUT GORDON HALLORAN:
Gordon Halloran is well known to world audiences as the creator of Paintings Below Zero. His monumental public art installations of non representational paintings in ice have fascinated audiences in Chicago (Millennium Park 2008), at Toronto City Hall (2007), at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and other international locations. In 2006, Halloran was Canada’s official representative to the Cultural Olympiad for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin, where he created an enormous installation filling a deconsecrated church at the Fortessa di Fenestrelle (www.paintingsbelowzero.blogspot.com)

Invited to be feature artist for Public Art at the Miami International Art Fair and Art Palm Beach in 2010, Halloran recently installed Lotus in Motion, a site-specific series of floating paintings at VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, Canada (2011) and Sun Yat Sen Gardens in Vancouver (2012).

GORDON HALLORAN STUDIO
VENUE #4
For the inaugural Roberts Creek Arts Festival, at VENUE #4, art lovers can experience floating paintings in the garden pond plus a myriad of techniques and forms both abstract and representational in the many works of art at Halloran’s garden studio.

Featured on studio walls: HUNG JURY, 12 life-size portraits in mixed media surrounding the viewer as accused. Caitlin Hicks, playwright and performer will embody one of the quirky characters with a short performance. Also featured will be Jackie Allen Gye, jazz vocalist, accompanied by pianist Ken Dalgleish. Performance times: tba

Additionally, visitors can view floating paintings in the studio pond and see images from his Paintings Below Zero work in public art with Torino Collection. Books on his Italy installation will be for sale as well as small giclees of the floating paintings. Food, beverages and music will also be featured.

Meditation on Lotus: Family

Writers' Cafe Special Edition Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Location: The Arts Building, Gibsons Presented By: The Arts Building Cost: $10 at the door (by donation) Writer/actress Caitlin Hicks emcees this special edition of the Writers' Cafe. This is one of several events held in conjunction with the opening of artist Gordon Halloran's Meditation on Lotus, floating artwork inspired by nature. The theme for the evening is "Family" in its broadest sense.