Amy Shackleton paints urban landscapes with gravity. She applies the paint with squeeze bottles and rotates her canvas to guide each drip as it falls down the stretched surface.
She is graduate from York University’s BFA program. At only 25, she has exhibited paintings in New York, London, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Shackleton was a finalist in the 2010 Signature Art Awards at Degree Art Gallery in London and nominated for the 2010 and 2011 Palm Art Award in Germany. More recently, her work was selected for purchase by the Colart Collection in Montreal. Shackleton currently paints full time in her studio in Toronto. She is represented by the Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto and the Gerry Thomas Gallery in Calgary.
Behind the Gardens is a studio album by New Age artist Andreas Vollenweider, released in 1981. It is almost entirely instrumental, and centers around Vollenweider on harp.
While not literally Vollenweider's first album, Behind the Gardens is widely regarded as such because it was his breakthrough album, gaining him wide recognition. The earlier and more obscure Eine Art Suite in XIII Teilen (An Art Suite in 13 Parts), 1979, remains available chiefly online, while Behind the Gardens can still be readily found in music stores worldwide.
The contemplative and moving second track, "Pyramid," is a favorite of fans and has become a concert staple, always garnering applause when the first harp notes are played.
While the album originally stood on its own, in 1990 it and the two following albums (Caverna Magica and White Winds) were re-released as a two-CD set entitled "Trilogy," suggesting they collectively constituted a single musical entity.
The full titles of the first two albums lend creedance to the suggestion that the three albums are thematically connected. The full title of the first album is "Behind the Gardens-Behind the Wall-Under the Tree..." The ellipsis at the end suggests a continuation. The full title of the next album is "Caverna Magica (...Under the Tree - In the Cave...)" The first ellipsis, followed by the repetition of "Under the Tree" from the first album title, clearly indicates a continuation. The second ellipsis suggests another continuation, which would turn out to be "White Winds (Seeker's Journey)." The last track on the White Winds album is entiled "Trilogy (At The White Magic Gardens) & The White Winds".
The title of the first album "is like giving someone directions: "You will find us behind The Garden, behind The Wall, under The Tree...", Vollenweider is quoted as saying on his official web site, http://www.vollenweider.com
The title of the second album apparently indicates a continuation of those directions: Under the tree you'll find a magic cavern. This magic cavern could be a metaphor for the recording site. This is borne out by the rest of the Vollenweider quote: "Recording this album we worked completely cut off from the world, in the cellars of the Sinus Studios in Bern (capital of Vollenweider's native Switzerland), which are more than 300 years old. In the shelter of this creative "womb", it was easy to lose track of time and space."
Sinus "was a small, underground studio," stated an article in the April 2003 edition of Mojo magazine, quoted at http://www.higgs1.demon.co.uk/barritt/mojo.htm. "It was entered by wooden shutters in the pavement above, which gave the impression of entering a crypt.
Tracklisting
1. Behind the Gardens-Behind the Wall-Under the Tree 2. Pyramid-In the Wood-In the Bright Light 3. Micro-Macro 4. Skin and Skin 5. Moonlight, Wrapped Around Us 6. Lion and Sheep 7. Sunday 8. Afternoon 9. Hands and Clouds
Andreas Vollenweider - Harp, Guitars, Saxophone, Synthesizers Walter Keiser - Drums Jon Otis, Pedro Haldemann - Percussion
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