Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery

Buttermilk Creek 2019
2019-09-14 09:00 - 14:00 UTC
Vendors: For more information please contact the Gallery
by phone at 506-392-6769 or email info@mccainartgallery.com
COLOUR RUN
starts @ 9 AM
Register @ the
McCain Barn
starting @ 8:30 am

September Exhibition: GARDENS, BEASTS AND WARRIORS: Anna Torma, Istvan and David Zsako
2019-09-14 - 2019-10-12
The artists will speak at 2:30.
Everyone Welcome

August Exhibition: East Gallery Dawn Steeves Structures: An Exploration of Memory
2019-08-10 - 2019-09-07
Opening 10 August 2019, 2 – 4 pm
This work began in 2017 with a series of line drawings – today the series includes 233 drawings.
Out of those investigations Dawn developed this colourful and enigmatic work in watercolour, drawing and oil on canvas.
Continually engaged with the rules of painting, (line, shape, form, composition, colour and light), Dawn explores imaginary yet three dimensional structures, both architectural and ideological. Over in one corner of the gallery, a clothes line of oil studies taken from photographs taken by her grandfather of Dawn before the age of two, remind the viewer of the role memory plays in representational painting.

August Exhibition: West Gallery Maria Doering Cells, Souls and Personalities
2019-08-10 - 2019-09-07
Opening 10 August 2019, 2-4 pm
Maria Doering’s exhibition, Cells, Souls and Personalities, asks many questions…
What would we find if we viewed our personalities, minds and souls through a microscope?
What does confidence, ambition or courage look like on a cellular level?
What is the cellular make up of a soul?
Our body and soul, together, make us who we are. If we could visualize the intangible mind and the physical vessel of our bodies, what would they look like?
Maria answers these questions in her imaginative, detailed and lacy linoleum reduction prints. The “Cells, Souls and Personalities” series of linocuts gives these intangibilities a voice and anchors them in the visible world.

Still and Not So Still by Francine Martin plus Daily Offerings by Charline Collette
2019-07-13 - 2019-08-03
This exhibition opens Saturday 13 July 2019 with a reception from 2-4pm; on view through 3 August 2019.

Charline Collette
Daily Offerings
Didn’t your mother used to hook? Rug-hooking is deeply set in the memory of most of New Brunswickers but these days adventurous fibre artists are using rug-hooking as a means of expression while remaining true to their roots.
ArtsNB has commented that “Some artists mix different materials and techniques and others like Charline Collette perpetuate the glorious tradition of figurative work.” With large-scale and sculptural pieces in this body of work, Colette uses an abstract approach, exploring the separation between the hooked surface and the images that are placed on them.
“I highlight domesticity and, by extension, society,” she says. “In the last two years, I have been challenging the perception of what rug-hooking is by changing the scale and materials.” Her themes are explored in different forms, whether by digital projection or paint on hooked panels, sculptural forms or dimensionally hooked pieces.

Francine Martin
Still and Not So Still
Francine Martin is from Edmunston NB and is a relative late-comer to the professional art scene. However, since her retirement from teaching in 2015, she has rapidly become recognized for her creative use of an Old Masters style known as chiaroscuro (kee·aa·ruh·skyur·ow) referring to the use of bold contrast between light and dark. Think classic works by artists like Rembrandt, da Vinci and Caravaggio.
Martin admits to a bit of a double personality due to growing up with a twin sister. She says it “defines my personality and is reflected in my work through the use of light and dark… I use the chiaroscuro technique in my still-life and landscape paintings, limiting my colour palette which is mainly greys with a touch of more vibrant colour. In these nuances I find a reflection of my personality that I seek to express.”
In a very short timespan, her work has been shown up and down the St John River Valley from the Banville-Pérusse Gallery in Edmundston to the Acanthus Gallery in Grand Falls and the Handworks Gallery in Saint John. Last year, she was selected for Making Waves, a fine art and craft show on Ministers Island near St Andrews.
Upcoming exhibitions
10 August-7 SeptemberDawn Steeves, paintingsMaria Doering, prints
14 September-12 OctoberA family group show with Anna Torma, David Zsako and Istvan Zsako: textile, sculpture, photography
19 October-16 November
Vicky Lentz, sculpture, painting, installation

"Pictus" by Jared Betts plus "The Lost City" by Ian MacEachern
2019-06-08 - 2019-07-06
Jared Betts
Pictus

Hailing from Moncton, Jared Betts’ expressionist, gestural paintings provide an immersive sensory experience. His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections in North America, Europe, China, Australia and even Iceland. He has exhibited in over 100 group and solo shows in cultural hotspots such as Paris, London and New York.
Using visual cues as a means of stimulating metaphysical sensation, Betts confides that his paintings “inhabit the space where consciousness descends into dream… I seek to examine this dream-like suppression of recognizable imagery and capture the visceral sensation that bubbles up from underneath.”
Ian MacEachern
The Lost City

Recording life in Canada’s oldest city through more than a thousand images, photographer Ian MacEachern witnessed the profound transformation of Saint John NB as it was buffeted by the forces of modernization during the 1960s. These photographs display extraordinary power in their honest depictions of fleeting moments and illustrate a certain raw humanity.
For a new large-format book, “The Lost City: Ian MacEachern’s Photographs of Saint John”, architectural and social historian John Leroux has selected 75 black-and-white photographs drawn from MacEachern’s exceptional archive and has written an accompanying essay that examines the effect of urban renewal on civic architecture, historic neighbourhoods and community structure. There may be lessons to be learned here.
This touring exhibition, on view through Saturday 6 July 2019 and sponsored by the Beaverbrook Gallery and the Canada Council for the Arts (among others), allows photography enthusiasts and community planning pundits alike to view dozens of archival prints that chronicle an urban way of life that has been largely forgotten until now.

"What The Mirror Doesn't See" by Laura Roy plus "Portraits in Clay" by Alison MacNeil
2019-05-04 00:00 - 2019-06-01 00:00
Laura Roy
Until June 1st, the Gallery is presenting imaginative new needle work collectively titled “What the Mirror Doesn’t See” by Laura Roy. This very personal work in textiles and drawing explores the artist’s experience of living with chronic pain and presents poignant embroidered images, in which each stitch metaphorically mends, fixes and heals while representing a unique and personal journey.
After graduation from Carleton North High School, Laura went on to pursue visual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (now NSCAD University) for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012 and a Certificate in Design in 2016. Currently working primarily as a graphic artist, she is also a contributing designer and co-organizer of the annual NSCAD Wearable Art Show in Halifax. Her work will be included in the Marion McCain Exhibition of Contemporary Atlantic Art this fall at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton.

Alison MacNeil
Also on view in the Gallery through June 1st is a retrospective presentation of impressive work from sculptor Alison MacNeil, “Portraits in Clay”. Currently living in Nova Scotia, Alison has worked and taught internationally. Her art —portraits (including miniatures), sculpture, commemorative medals— has been recognized by important international institutions and galleries from the United Kingdom to British Columbia. Subjects have included Governor General Georges Vanier and author Timothy Findley.
She has taught extensively in Europe and Canada and her expertise in using the Bremen Method for sculptural portraits led to the publication of a book on the subject in 1996. A stroke three years ago was a setback for this talented artist but she overcame physical limitations and today works exclusively on miniature clay sculpture or, as she refers to them, “handheld” treasures.

CONVERSATIONS
2018-10-20 - 2018-11-17
Craft NB Juried Member Biennale Exhibition
Curated by Vicky Lentz
This exhibition features the work of 21 New Brunswick artists, each exploring different interpretations of the exhibition title and theme. Conversations is but a small sample of the kinds of dialogue we take part in – between friends, family, within ourselves and between the artists and their materials, the art and the audience. The show features a rich and diverse range of media where the hand works in tandem with the mind. Each and every piece is unique and has its own story to tell.
sideshow: a conversation with Katrina, features the work of Katrina Isbill-Floyd, aka Bella McBride. Katrina is a skilled artisan who accidently found needle felting at a young age and ultimately turned it into her passion in life.

CUBA CONTEMPORARY PRINTS
2018-09-15 10:30 - 2018-10-13 17:00
Opening 22 September 2018
Artists Danisbel Abad Lopez and Mauricis Reyes Aranda
along with the exhibition curator Robert Van de Peer will be in attendance at the opening.
The exhibition Cuba: Contemporary Prints is the result of a creative partnership between artists from Canada and Cuba. The bridging force has been master printmaker Robert Van de Peer. In residence during the summer at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre’s Printshop in St Andrews, New Brunswick, Robert spends the winter in the printshop at the Taller Cultural Luis Diaz Eduardo in Santiago De Cuba.
“My part-time residence in Cuba over the past six years has given me the opportunity to teach non-toxic techniques in printmaking and form a close relationship with Cuban artists. Cuban printmakers are limited by the availability of materials, and the most common technique that is used is collagraph, a print made from a matrix of cardboard and glue. They have refined this process to a fine degree,” says Van De Peer. He described the Cuban printmakers’ creative ideas as often dream-like, romantic in many ways, and having a distinct echo of Africa, brought to the island through the early slave trade.
We are honoured to host this exhibition which, in itself, has been a collaborative effort between our sister galleries Sunbury Shores, the Saint John Art Centre and us. The Cuban printmakers are masters of invention using the materials that are available to them and the results are impressive.
Jennifer Stead
Executive Director

Thomas Sparling: Grand Manan Watercolours
2018-09-15 10:30 - 2018-10-13 17:00
Thomas Sparling will attend the opening on 22 September 2018, 2-4 pm.
Thomas Sparling’s scenes of the coastal landscapes of Grand Manan Island capture the light, atmosphere and textures of the island with a bold and assured handling of his brush and paint. A resident of Saint Andrew’s New Brunswick in the warmer seasons, Sparling has been painting this landscape for many years and his strong ties to the region are evident in his art. His close observations of nature are described in watercolour with bold forms, deep colour and lively mark making which together foreground the abstract nature of representation.

NB Art Bank 2017-2018 Acquisitions
2018-08-11 08:00 - 2018-09-08 17:00
Every year the Province of New Brunswick acquires art from contemporary, practicing artists in New Brunswick to build the provincial collection.
Join us this year starting August 11, 2018 to discover artists from all over the province and see what they have been working on in their studios.
Opening August 11, 2018, 2-4 pm.
“It was an affirming and insightful experience to work with the other jurors toward this selection of new works for the NB Art Bank. It was a challenging task, as there were many strong submissions to consider. Our final choices reflect a significant amount of discussion and rigorous debate, and are a testament to the high level of expertise in the arts in New Brunswick”
Janice Wright Cheney, juror.
“Building the Art Bank collection is an important activity for the arts within the province; it is an archive of creative history of which we can all be proud of”
Linda Rae Dornan, juror

Side Show: William Forrestall - Recycled and Reused
2018-07-07 10:30 - 2018-08-04 17:00
Opening 7 July 2018, 2-4 pm
The July 2018 Side Show features two of William Forrestall’s unique kinetic sculptures developed within the format of working peddle cars.
Forrestall has developed his own unique approach to exploring kinetic aesthetics and intuitive structures developed from recycled materials. His cars are made from recycled and reused materials including off-cuts, recycled bicycle parts, old chairs, construction materials and anything else that can be put to use.
From the work of Los Angles based Chris Burden’s creation of his B car, Don Potts purely aesthetic yet functional vehicles to the 2007 Sobeys Award winner Michel de Broin’s transformation of a standard car to a human powered vehicle, the art world offers many examples of artists exploring the potential of functional vehicles as an art form.
William Forrestall will be giving a kinetic car summer art camp for ages 8 – 88 at the River Art Centre Studios to encourage a wider community involvement and exploration of the vehicle motif. Please call the Gallery to register for the class which runs August 7 – 10, 2018. Spaces are limited.

Terry Perkins: A Retrospective
2018-07-07 10:30 - 2018-08-04 17:00
Opening 7 July 2018, 2-4 pm
Sponsors for the exhibition include:
Carleton County Toy Run, Carleton Enterprises, Catherine and Paul Giberson, Alden Henderson
John Lang, Philip Lang, Langs Lodge, Outback Joe’s, Ann Marie, Nicole and Jason Perkins
Terry Perkins’ art evolved and changed over the years, but the consistent theme that is evident throughout this exhibition is his love for the landscape, heritage and life as he knew it in Carleton County, New Brunswick. He lived and worked in Florenceville-Bristol and is well know in the community as the artist who painted the mural which hung outside the co-op for over 20 years. He attended George Brown college in Toronto in the early 1980s to learn the art of sign painting and maintained a studio practice throughout his adult life. His interests and styles developed and changed over the years and the gallery is fortunate to be able to include his first painting and drawing, as well as the last painting, River, which was literally taken from his easel for the exhibition. Terry was a motor cycle enthusiast and as president of the Toy Run he painted many bikes and helmets for other bikers over the years. Included in the exhibition is one of his air brushed gas tanks and some studies that he used to paint his fellow bikers’ bikes.

A year with Art: The 2018 Student Showcase
2018-06-16 10:30 - 2018-07-01 17:00
Featuring art by students from
FES, FMS, CCS
and recent CNHS graduates
Amy Swim and Emma Connors
Amy and Emma will be pursuing studies in visual art at Mount Alison University and the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in September 2018
“Closing” Reception
on Sunday July 1 @ 2:30 pm

The Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery and The Beaverbrook Art Gallery present Thaddeus Holownia Tantramar Revisited Revisited
2018-04-28 - 2018-05-26
Opening April 28, 2-4 pm
Artist talk at 4 pm
Everyone welcome
Tantramar Revisited Revisited examines some of Holownia’s favourite subjects to which he returns repeatedly, sometimes over decades, recording various landscapes and architecture of New Brunswick. Holownia’s very personal, acute vision chronicles the interrelated relationships he observes, how the land reveals its history and how time and human events affect change. Through serial observations and sustained interest, Holownia creates images of timelessness and transience, things that renew themselves and things that don’t, all together giving us an opportunity to see the familiar become new again.
With thanks to New Brunswick Department of Heritage, Culture and Tourism

Conservation on Canvas: Paintings by Mike McEwing
2018-03-17 08:00 - 2018-04-21 17:00
Artist talk 24 March, 2018
2:30 – 4:00 pm

Side Show: Colette Laliberte Feb 3 to Mar 10, 2018
2018-02-03 08:00 - 2018-03-11 17:00
Colette Laliberté – Statement
Shedding Memories | Des hangars dans le temps
The drawings reference the rectangular, decaying sheds found in Duntara, a remote Newfoundland out port located on the coast at Bonavista Bay. The drawings, with their ghostly feel and their softness of line, are positioned strategically on the large sheets of drawing paper.
In Duntara’s better days, it was an active fishing outport; now it consists of only twenty-four people, down from forty-six in 2011. With the decline of the cod stocks, few people are fishing. Abandoned, windswept fishers’ sheds and century old houses lay scattered around the bay. Most of them may be gone in a year or two.
These graphite pencil, ink, and gouache drawings were made during the course of a two-week residency at 2 Rooms Artist Residency. While the drawings may, at first glance, seem to be simply sophisticated doodles, upon further observation a structure emerges that combines history and memory into a deft and intricate mosaic of lines.
Weaving together the past, the present and the future, these sites belong to a soon-to-be-forgotten history as well as to a framework of places that are yet to become.
Colette Laliberté

New Brunswick Art Bank Aboriginal Acquisitions Exhibition Acquisitions Autochtones 2017 Banque d’oeuvres d’art du Nouveau-Brunswick
2018-02-03 - 2018-03-10
Tara Audibert, Importance of Dreaming Still: Log Pan, 2017,
L’importance de rever, 2017, Photographie panoramique
Tara Audibert, Edward Bear, Angela Beek, Kim and G Wayne Brooks, Francine Francis, Tim Hogan, Liz Kain
Belinda Levi, Mary Mersereau, Cindy Narvey, James Narvey, Austin Paul, Sarah Sacobie, Vienna Sanipass
Sgoagani Wecenisqon, Pauline Young

Side Show: Monique Bujold-Brown
2017-11-17 - 2017-12-16
Using the experimental and creative process of Raku Firing, Monique’s ceramics are inspired by the landscapes of New Brunswick. The shapes and forms of the trees inspire the designs of her boxes while her interest in exploring fish is rooted in her childhood as a fisherman’s daughter on the Bay de Chaleurs.
From the Artist
Humble Evocative Raku
Why clay? How can I make it reflect who I am? How far can I go with it? We all have a need to speak, to
convey how we view the world. How can I make this mud express who I am?
Western raku firing has become my favorite method of exploring my artistic voice. This style calls for
experimentation and creativity. And it involves playing with open flames which I love!
In the summer of 2004, I took my first raku class at the Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Center in Saint
Andrew NB with Peter Thomas. That was it! I was hooked from then on to this type of pottery. The
complexity and yet simple, impressive results of this genre is the best way I have of expressing my inner
persona.
My incentive to go ahead with a body of work comes from a variety of inspiration and impulse. The idea
can be from admiring someone else’s work, it can be from a sense of awe felt in front of beautiful
scenery, or it can be from a sense of inner peace, of happiness and joy for whatever reason. All of these
influences have played their part in this work of raku fired ceramic pieces.
The ‘eggs’ came from much experimentation after seeing Evelyne Shoenmann’s work, a ceramist from
Switzerland. Her raku pieces are a subtle balance between obscurity and simplicity, Wabi-Sabi, a
harmony I’m in constant torment of achieving.
For the Tree Boxes, the beauty of our Maritime Provinces is my inspiration. The long drives taken to
reach other parts in the Maritimes from my home in northern New Brunswick are the perfect occasion
to replenish my inspiration. I find the pristine outlines of the magnificent pines and spruce the most
compelling of all.
The colored boxes result from a poem titled ‘Colors’ written for me by my husband. His verses led me to
create different extruded boxes of different colors each with the corresponding verses written inside.
The fish theme is rooted in my happy childhood raised as a fisherman’s daughter on the Baie des
Chaleurs. This was a time when there was no concern for marine life’s present precarious state due to
global warming and pollution. For me, fishes impart a sense of vitality, a zest for life, a giddy sense of
quirkiness. My fishes are my way of stirring awareness for the underwater realm.
The chawans, Japanese tea bowl, are part of my never ending quest to achieve this commanding humble
form.
Working with mud is imparting the outcome the shape of my soul.
Monique Bujold-Brown

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: It's Not The Age It's The Mileage
2017-08-26 22:30 - 2017-09-30 17:00
With this popular exhibition The Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery welcomes the return of Carleton North favourites, James Buxton, Paul Buxton, Phillip Harrington, Shawn Taylor, Roy Tibbits, Kerry O’Toole while welcoming new artists Luc Cyr and Vicky Lentz, Bruce Gray, Craig Dow, Ernest Clark and Stephen Hutchings to The Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery.
“The recurring themes in my designs are deceptive simplicity, elegance and naturalness. When working with wood, I typically start with a tree, processing it into slabs. I follow my primary materials of wood and stone where they take me. My richest and most honest pieces are designed from, and for, the materials. Designs that use exquisite materials and maximize their strong visual assets: natural edge, surface texture and negative space. People often ask if I built it that way, or if it grew like that”. Bruce Gray
In love for close to two decades, the two artists Luc Cyr and Paula Lentz have combined their passion for the arts and work together forming an amazing artistic duo. “We quickly realized that we were a great team. Luc is the sculptor and Paula the painter. We combine our talents to create beautiful pieces of wood, “they explained in concert. Luc Cyr has been sculpting and shaping wood ever since he was a young boy. As he himself explains, he was born with a knife in his hands. “For the caricature sculptors I use spruce wood as a medium. I work with power tools for my creations. Paula then paints my pieces imaginatively using living colors that transform the work and give it a life”. Luc Cyr and Paula Lentz
Charged with emotion, the work is a reflective reaction to my everyday. Working in a non-representational mode, the results are challenging, inquisitive and colourful but never pretty. The need to express the visions in my mind’s eye is something that could not be ignored and eventually I settled upon acrylic and oils as being the best to express my vision. I continue to explore the corners of my cranium, and strive to express my mind’s musings to my satisfaction”. Craig Smith Dow
Bruce Grey, Canadian, Sculptured RockerLuc Cyr, Lucifer 2017Craig Smith Dow, Canadian, In Defense of Gravity, 2017Kerry O'Toole, Canadian, Owl, 2017Shawn Taylor, Canadian, Balloon, 2017Stephen Hutchings, Canadian, Self Portrait as Two Shapes, 2017Paul Buxton, Canadian, Sean, the Tin Man, 2017Roy Tibbets, Canadian, Winter Trails, 2017Ernest Clarke, Canadian, Celtic Knot, 2017James Buxton, Canadian, Owl, 2017

New Brunswick Book Design Show
2017-07-15 10:30 - 2017-08-19 17:00
The exhibit features book cover design created by New Brunswick graphic artists for New Brunswick publishers.
The exhibit includes books from Anchorage Press, Gaspereau Press, and Rabbittown Press in order to illustrate the design and typographic characteristics of high quality book making.
It is the first event of Word Feast, St. John River Valley Literary Festival, which begins in mid-July at the McCain Library/Gallery in Florenceville-Bristol and culminates in Fredericton the third week in September
The book cover and book design show will run at the McCain Gallery until August 19th.
Ann Brennan and Peter Clare, Author Readings at Wordfest, @ ALMAG, 2017

Circular Time - Barbara Brown
2017-07-15 10:30 - 2017-08-19 17:00
Barbra Brown, Canadian, Green May, 2017

Carleton North Student Show Case
2017-05-18 08:00 - 2017-05-27 17:00

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
2017-04-29 18:00 - 20:00
Tickets are now available for the 10th annual
Saturday, 29 April 2017
The evening starts with a 6:00 o’clock reception
at The Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery
8 McCain Street, Florenceville-Bristol, NB E7L 3H6
Tickets are $60.00
For more information call Jennifer @ ALMAG, 506-392-6769

Selected Photographs by G. Allan Brewer
2017-02-25 14:00 - 2017-04-01 17:00
Two shows worth stopping for!
Join us in celebrating the art of local artist G. Allan Brewer and his exhbition of photographic prints.
The show closes April 1 at 5:00pm at the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery.
We look forward to seeing you!

Print Sideshow
2017-02-25 08:00 - 2017-04-01 17:00
The Print Sideshow:
An exploration of print making techniques

Pandemonium Diary: 50 Copperplate Etchings
2017-01-12 19:00 - 2017-02-18 17:00
Opening reception Thursday January 12, 2017 from 7-9pm
Please join the Gallery in welcoming our first exhibiting artist of the year, Bob Morouney.
“Pandemonium Diary is comprised of 50 copperplate etchings, all visual metaphors. Buildings, as metonym, are the focus of chimerical juxtaposition wherein the disparate elements are reconciled only through insight. The images are narrative moments. The stories glimpsed are full of agency and refute the “common sense” that veils unquestioned assumptions. In all images the stories are simple and offer a choice of interpretations, wherein lies their power to encourage a fresh look at the familiar.”
A copperplate workshop will follow on Saturday January 14 from 9am-4pm, cost $90. Look to our events page on facebook.com/mccainartgallery for more details. You can register by calling 392-6769 or emailing bryanne@mccainartgallery.com

The Paintings of David McKay
2016-09-29 - 2016-11-05
Opening Reception: Thursday September 29 (7-9PM)
On display September 29th – November 5, 2016
This exhibition will feature work inspired by my native and beloved home province of New Brunswick as well as a few things inspired by recent trips to Scotland and Ireland … the land of my ancestors. I work in the watercolour and egg tempera painting media and both media will be shown. The images that I paint, are usually created from a combination of memory and imagination. Although my work is realistic in genre, I always must feel an emotional connection with my subject matter and therefore, the final result is not simply a direct reproduction of an image or place.
David McKay is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) and is on the board of the Canada Council for the Arts.
David has been painting professionally since 1972. During that time, McKay has exhibited in galleries in Canada, the USA and Europe including The National Gallery of Canada and The Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, France.
David paints his native province of New Brunswick; its landscape, people and buildings in the egg tempera and watercolour media.
www.davidmckayartist.com
David’s work is included in the collections of:
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew
The University of New Brunswick
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Mount Allison University
The City of Fredericton
Irving Oil Limited
McCain Foods Ltd.

SPECTRA - Nancy Stevens
2016-08-18 19:00 - 2016-09-24 16:00
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 18th (7-9PM)
On display until September 24th, 2016
Three separate but connected groups of paintings pay homage to the power and behavior of colour.
In a series of seven watercolours, I return to the traditional still-life genre, where each painting focusses on a spectrum colour. The rich color of ripe fruit is enlivened by decorative motifs of dishes, glassware and tablecloths.
Revisiting the captured light and colour of Impressionism, and reassessing the formal qualities of abstraction, I have integrated sculptural elements in the large acrylic paintings to create shadows and tension on the painting’s surface.
Bridging representation in the watercolours and the complexity of the abstract paintings, are seven relief structures, each one charged with a spectrum colour, varying in tone, intensity and hue. Playing with the composition and the energy of an individual colour, projected shapes and shadows reference symbolic and emotional qualities.
The experiences of a life lived are the source of my art while light and color have been my inspiration. Events and emotions are recalled, ideas are revisited, reassessed, and transfigured into paint and the magic of spectra.

Les B'old Hags
2016-07-07 19:00 - 2016-08-13 16:00
Cover Image: “Because I’m Vintage…my cup runneth over” by Patricia Winans mixed media 12.7 x 25.4 cm
Opening Reception Thursday, July 7th, 7-9PM
On display until Saturday, August 13th
Les B’old Hags are a renowned community of French and English female artists (ages 68 – 77) all harboring similar concerns – “now that I am old what do I really think of the extra time I have been given? Do I love every minute of it or do I live in fear of death and the dying process?”
Huge strides in medical science have given the aging population a new lease on life with an extra 10-20 years of physical health. However, these Les Hags aren’t so sure this is ultimately for the best. They wonder “what is happening to our souls and spirits? Is the extra time only adding to our pain of watching loved ones die? Are we to marinate in boredom? Do we engender more fear of a painful, undignified death? Will we fritter away the extra time in the same manner of our other years?
Due to their long years of learning their art/craft, Les B’old Hags have the technical skills and far reaching thought processes to tell their stories and it is these and other questions that the work in this unique group show will address.
This multi-media exhibition brings awareness to the aging and art connection and incorporates sculpture, poetry, fibre art, music, painting, and performance.
