a collection of new abstract work by Kingston artist Erika Olson
Erika Olson’s new solo exhibition features a return to the large colourful abstracts which marked the early days of her painting career. After more than a dozen years urgently examining the everyday objects of domesticity and producing the sumptuous still lives for which she has become known, Olson’s work has come full circle.
Saturated colour schemes remain a constant for Olson, as does her intuitive sense of balancing shapes. By juxtaposing smooth and jagged lines, her new works feel at once edgy and organic. Here, however, her domestic colour palette gives way to the exotic; Indian Miniatures providing a current muse.
Olson’s re-exploration of abstraction is a gift to the viewer; it’s as if she’s rediscovered some of her most comfortable and beloved old clothes, and by restructuring them, fashioned a tapestry of form and tone.
These large vibrant works are indeed quintessentially modernist in their inspiration and yet still feel current and original. Don’t miss your chance to see the exciting body of work that is COLOUR BLAST.
Erika Olson studied fine art at Queens University and earned her BFA from Concordia University. She has had numerous exhibitions and group shows in Kingston, Toronto, Calgary and the United Kingdom.
COLOUR BLAST; new abstracts by Erika Olson is on exhibit at Studio 22 from Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday December 16, 2017.
the latest body of work by local artist Debra Krakow
Working from her picturesque Wolfe Island home studio, artist and architect Debra Krakow watches the seasons unfold. Lush greens give way to the riotous ochres and siennas of autumn, before succumbing to the hush of winter’s mantle of white. These weathered landscapes, the evidence of time’s passage, inspire Krakow’s layered, and often expansive and abstracted, canvases.
Natural landscapes, sometimes presented as fragments, invite the viewer to look beneath the façade of mere seeing. They reveal the dignity and subtle structure of memory and perspective. What lies beyond that which we immediately encounter are the forms of change themselves. Krakow’s work reminds us that our subjective viewpoints necessarily reflect experience filtered through time and that which we most accurately perceive often demands focused attention and thoughtful exploration.
“I am drawn to these sparse, quiet landscapes with their vestiges of abundance: cornstalks in frozen fields, dead trees in a flooded pond, detritus on a forest floor. The signs of aging can be equally evocative and beautiful on human-made surfaces — peeling paint on weathered barn board, a rusty metal door, cracked plaster in an abandoned building. My working method is a natural fit for exploring the way structures and landscapes morph over time. I work in layers, selectively revealing or obscuring parts of the layers below to create an evocative surface. Just as a landscape or weathered surface bears hints of its evolution, my painted surfaces reveal a complex history of underlying texture and colour.”—Debra Krakow
Debra Krakow was born into a creative family in 1965 and has been a free spirit ever since. Torn between her two loves – art and physics –she decided to study architecture. She graduated from McGill University where she had the privilege of studying life drawing under artist Gentile Tondino. She developed her artistic practice through courses in painting, printmaking, sculpture, fibre arts and ceramics.
Her work has been exhibited in her native city of Montreal as well as Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Halifax and New York State. Her works are fondly displayed in living rooms and offices throughout North America.
Remnants: finding beauty in transience and decay is on exhibit at Studio 22 from Tuesday, November 7 until Saturday December 16, 2017.
In partnership with Print Inuit, we are again hosting the Cape Dorset 2017 Annual Print Collection on the 3rd floor of our gallery. On October 21st, the 2017 Collection officially goes on sale and the works can be viewed in person and purchased directly through our gallery.
Exhibit opens at Studio22 at 10 am on the 21st. Come see these beautiful prints in person before you buy.
Dorset Fine Arts was established in Toronto in 1978 as the wholesale marketing division of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. The Co-operative is in Cape Dorset, Nunavut and is unique among the Arctic Co-operatives for its focus on the arts and artists of the community. The Annual Graphics Collection from Cape Dorset has been released since 1959 and the Co-operative also represents many acclaimed sculptors and drawing artists. Dorset Fine Arts was established to develop and serve the market for Inuit fine art produced by the artist members of the Co-operative. Sales and exhibitions of prints, drawings and sculptures are made through the Dorset Fine Arts showroom in Toronto to galleries around the world.
Keight MacLean would be the first to admit that there is something perplexing and paradoxical about great art. The challenge as an artist—especially one capable of approaching the latter—is to develop an aesthetic that both celebrates beauty and showcases their expertise, yet still stakes a claim on the radical inventiveness of artistic creation. That is, every artist must find her own unique voice.
For MacLean, finding her voice has coincided with giving voice to forgotten and historically marginalized women. LOST PORTRAITS, her latest body of work, features MacLean’s traditionally inspired portraits, presented with a contemporary twist, such as fluorescent spray paint, re-harvested artists’ mediums and destructive techniques. Driven to explore new materials and apply experimental methods, MacLean is a natural student and calculating risk-taker. Working on surfaces of various sizes affords MacLean the freedom to explore new territory and makes her work accessible to a range of investors.
MacLean’s dedication to her practice is impressive for an emerging artist. She credits her experience under the tutelage of Karen Peperkorn of Kingston’s Creative Arts FOCUS Program with helping to set her on her artistic path. A recent OCAD University graduate and an alumna of the school’s revered Florence Program, located in Florence, Italy, MacLean takes a holistic approach to her practice. She continually seeks out opportunities to establish connections with fellow artists, to broaden her audience, and to cultivate new collectors. Now based in Toronto, she has participated in various art fairs, such as Toronto Outdoor and the Artist’s Project, garnering an extensive following. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and her work is in collections throughout Canada, the USA, Italy and the UK.
Studio 22 is thrilled to welcome Keight MacLean home and to present LOST PORTRAITS, her first major solo exhibition in Kingston.
LOST PORTRAITS will be on display at Studio 22, located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from September 12-October 28, 2017.
THERE, New Works by Beverly Zawitkoski will carry you away. The solo exhibition, on display at Studio 22 Open Gallery, highlights the creative practice of self-expression through paint.
Zawitoski takes her inspiration from landscapes, though her abstract canvases bring the viewer on an impassioned journey, which travels far beyond the physical realm. Through abstraction, Zawitkoski explains that her goal is “to create an aesthetic that facilitates the exploration of an unknown place that is at once emotionally familiar and visually suggested.”
The works are a culmination of years of refined technique. Her process reveals the possibilities of paint, which is layered then deconstructed in a series of steps throughout each work: marks, scratches, lineation, additional layers, densely textured areas and blending all build up the surface, sometimes evoking energetic purpose and at other times transcendent tranquility. She searches continually for unfettered, expressive ways of breathing life into paint’s viscosity and colour, requiring multiple trials before achieving the final composition. Every painting gives her insight into the next work, in turn pulling her forward towards a new series. Zawitkoski credits the constant rhythm of self-questioning with the production of these completed paintings.
The resulting works are at once a profound exclamation of intent, focusing our attention on the very nature of existence and the complex and elegant process of creation itself, and a subtle reminder that through exploration, you can arrive somewhere both unexpected and exquisite.
Savour the seduction of subtle colours and gestures in paint; embark on a voyage of personal discovery. Yes, you can get ‘ THERE’ from here!
Beverly Zawitkoski is a Canadian artist living and working in her native Montreal. Zawitkoski has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Canada and internationally in the USA, across the UK, and in The Czech Republic’s capital of Prague. THERE will be on display at Studio 22, located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from September 12-October 28, 2017.
Baby, Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me – by Cameron Schaefer
With a combination of nostalgia and whimsy, Cameron Schaefer takes us on a whirlwind journey through the humourous, the iconic, and the unexpected.
In today’s fast-paced world, it is often the role of the artist to show us how to slow down, to work through ideas, and to make things with our hands. Enter Cameron Schaefer. A Kingston-based author, musician and artist who creates comical compositions, Schaefer invents provocative and contemporary variations on familiar images and themes. His latest exhibition will feature wood panel screen prints and paintings.
The juxtaposition of his process is itself somewhat ironic. Schaefer employs old-fashioned techniques normally used to produce quantities of items, to fabricate his one-of-a-kind works. In so doing, he embraces a rich tradition in contemporary art, beginning with Dadaism, that continues to question the very notion of what constitutes fine art.
With his latest body of work, Baby, Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me, Schaefer marries his unique tongue-in-cheek sense of humour with his acute colour sensibility. The resulting work is at home in any environment, delighting viewers of all ages. Come on, get hooked!
Baby, Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me, by Cameron Schaefer will be on display at Studio 22 from July 11 – August 19.
“Nature, architecture and everyday objects contain patterns that intrigue, mesmerize and engage me. Taking those initial images and abstracting them is a form of play for me,” admits photographic artist Diane Laundy. “It is like looking through the lens of a kaleidoscope at the endless possibilities of patterns and forms.”
Indeed, Laundy’s work is more than mere representation, moving beyond realist photography to a form of photographic abstraction. By transforming her initial photographs of the textures, patterns and subject matter which attract her, into entirely new creations and forms allows Laundy to present a vision uniquely her own.
Influenced by textiles and quilts and the way they are created and combined, Laundy’s technique involves cutting and arranging the same image, a series of images, or parts of images.
“In this series of images, I turn natural and architectural details into a series of kaleidoscopic designs. By mirroring, flipping and layering the original image, I create an impressionistic view of the original, bringing out the beautiful patterns and forms inherent in the subject,” Laundy further explains.
Diane Laundy practices photography as a means to express her creative ideas. She has exhibited her photography in numerous solo and group exhibitions at Studio 22 (Kingston), the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (Almonte), Nocturne: Art at Night (Halifax), ViewPoint Gallery (Halifax), Gallery Raymond (Kingston) and the Kingston Arts Council (Kingston). She has also participated in juried studio tours in Maberly, Kingston and Merrickville. Her photographs have been published in Peeling Bells (2015),
Fabrications: Modern Architecture Re-imagined (exhibition catalogue, 2010), Ferment (2003), and on the cover of the CD Cycle of Life (2005). Her work is in private collections across Canada, and in the Nova Scotia Art Bank.
KALEIDOS: BEAUTIFUL FORMS by Diane Laundy will be on display from July 11 – August 19.
Limited Edition of 10 each – $475 +HST for #1/10 with a 10% increase as each one is sold.
Peterborough-based artist Rob Niezen marries his disparate influences, comic book art and classic impressionism, to produce graphic oil paintings which entertain and delight.
Incorporating his observations of everyday life, Niezen weaves a visual tale through his imaginatively narrative canvases. Life is rich with colour and experience; time is measured in moments shared with family and friends.
Using light and colour, shadows and reflections, Niezen depicts table tops filled with glassware that sparkle and shine, signifying the joy of living life to its fullest.
A true master of painting sunlight–reflected and refracted, direct and indirect— Niezen’s bold use of colour, exaggerated angles, and unique perspectives lend drama to these unexpected images. Like snapshots of a perfect holiday, each canvas takes on the sense of a memento. Celebration is all about savouring life’s experience.
Born in The Hague, Netherlands, and now living near Peterborough, Ontario, Rob Niezen is a painter and printmaker who has participated in over 30 exhibitions. His works can be found in collections, internationally.
CELEBRATION – New Works by Rob Niezen will be on display from July 11 – August 19.
Raven Haired Woman – 16″ x 13″ – oil on panel – $1425
Sitting – 12″ x 10″ – oil on panel- $1350
Accordion II – SOLD- 10″ X 10″ – oil on panel – $1300
Swirl – SOLD – 12″ X 10″ – oil on panel – $1350
Frog Pond – 23×23″ – $2300
Woodland Creek – 24×24″ – $2400
The Path – 25×25″ – $2400
Sojourn – 25×31″ – $3600
Night Portal – 31×31″ – $4100
HOUSE 9 – 6×6″ – $600
HOUSE 7 – SOLD-
6×6″ – $600
HOUSE 5 – 6×6″ – $600
HOUSE 3 – 6×6″ – $600
Lone Tree x 6 – 10×40″ – $1100
“As a visual artist, I often explore themes of isolation, introspection and the fusion of contrary states of being. Whether my work is figurative, abstract or in the realm of landscape, I’m intrigued with the pairing of dichotomies, these which may appear in the expression of a face or in the lines of an abstract. Merging beauty and awkwardness, freedom and control, fragility and strength, etc., I seek to capture the fine balance that binds opposites – because that’s the world I observe, the world I feel, and the world that most moves me: a world that always knows some sense of discomfort in its beauty.”
JT’s work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, The Netherlands and Mexico and she is currently represented in galleries in Toronto, Montreal, and Amsterdam. Her paintings have been featured in national magazines, books and book covers in Canada, Holland, Turkey and England. She paints full time from her studio in Kingston and has spent extensive periods working at studios in Spain, Holland and Mexico. Her work has been collected throughout Canada, the USA and Europe.
Montreal-based Cuban artist Osvaldo González Herrera
A stunning body of work representing an extraordinarily unique vision, RETORNO takes the viewer on a journey into the surreal landscape of dreams.
Herrera’s work defies conventional definitions, liberating the viewer from the constructs of previously conceived notions of the human form. Incorporating a splatter-like style reminiscent of Jackson Pollock and evoking the sensibility and playfulness of Ralph Stedman, Herrera recalls abstract expressionism as an anchor for an entirely original direction. Much of Herrera’s works have a narrative quality, featuring enigmatic themes and lurid figures in intriguing situations.
In Herrera’s own words, “I propose possible interpretations in order to provoke a dialogue with the viewer.” In so doing, the discourse between subject and object is set in motion, whereby the exchange of ideas creates a flow that leads the viewer back to the initial state of wonder. There are no easy answers here, but a return to yet more questions.
Working in a variety of forms, from painting and graphic arts to humorist drawing, Osvaldo González Herrera studied art in his native Cuba. In 2013, Herrera relocated to Montreal, where he continues to work as a painter and graphic artist. His work has been shown in several solo and collective exhibitions, both in Cuba and internationally. He has published his humorist works in several local newspapers.
RETORNO; Paintings by Osvaldo González Herrera will be on display at Studio 22, located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from May 30 –July 1.
GOUGING, NAILING, CUTTING, SCRAPING & PAINTING – New Works by Jane Derby
Exploring our local environment through artistic innovation.
Leftover copper from a refrigeration manufacturing plant near Kingston and plaster lath salvaged from old homes provide inspiration for local artist Jane Derby. By using a variety of techniques to creatively repurpose discarded materials, Derby opens up the possibility of rethinking our relationship to trash and poses the question, What is beautiful?
Given our current environmental crisis, Derby’s work feels both timely and prescient. It is no surprise, then, that she has been recognized with a number of prizes and awards, including the Environmental Spirit Award from the Recycling Council of Ontario.
While Derby’s works suggest how reimagining cast-off objects may portend the future, her aim is predominantly aesthetic. What she is able to produce from these raw materials is exquisite. Her blend of experimental, yet exacting, technique yields energetic and enlightened landscapes; upending all expectation.
As Derby explains, “Most recently, the result has been a series of bas relief landscapes made from household cans. I cut and shred these, nailing the pieces to plywood, simulating the grasses, earth and water that make up the textural beauty of wetlands of Eastern Ontario. The recycled cans, rusted and corroded through patinas, lend themselves to an implied critique of our current environmental practices, a reminder that two thirds of the original wetlands have been lost.”
The exhibit combines the refined practice Derby has been exploring since graduating from OCAD, with the new element of locally sourced copper. The reclamation of Kingston’s very own industrial waste presents Derby with the opportunity to demonstrate how we might all take part in re-envisioning our future.
Gouging, Nailing, Cutting, Scraping & Painting will be on exhibit at Studio 22, located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from May 30-July 1.
We will be previewing our freshest exhibits at this year’s spring Art After Dark gallery tour. Come get a peek of some really exciting new works. Have time to ponder and make your move when these works go on sale on Tuesday May 30th.
We are in the final few days of our current exhibit period. Our featured exhibits, A Perfect Day – New Oils by Susan Oomen, Paintings by Robert Blenderman and Rebecca Cowan’s Julie Brown Project, have been accompanied by some terrific new work by Teresa Mrozicka, Debra Krakow, and introducing Isaac Gillis.
It began as a question during an interview with CKWS Morning Show host Bill Welychka. Could I do a drypoint portrait of his co-host Julie Brown? With a laugh I answered, “Of course.” A day or two later, I fell in love with the idea. Julie then graciously agreed to sit for me, and the Julie Brown Project began.
I was inspired by the celebrity portraits by Andy Warhol, whose iconic images use repetition and colour variation to highlight different aspects of his very familiar subjects. Using my own drawings of Julie, rather than photographs, I created a small set of drypoint plates. Then I began the process of printing and overprinting the plates, using different colours and papers to show just a few of the many faces of Julie Brown.
Susan Oomen’s works perfectly express mood; capturing stillness in action. Serene lake-scapes depict a life well lived, paddlers float upon light-dappled water, portraying the double meaning of reflection. Idyllic boathouses and iconic muskoka chairs invite the viewer to take pause. The works suggest moments of solitude as well as intimate pairings, illustrations of what it means to be close to nature and to one another. Each moment depicted invites the viewer to reminisce about their own beloved interactions with the natural world and the joy of living fully.
A Perfect Day is a reminder of the sanctuary of nature and the invaluable gift of tranquility. Featuring ethereal canvases of various shapes and sizes, Oomen’s latest exhibit offers a portal to a meditative state of mind; connecting you to beauty and bringing a moment of contemplative bliss into your home, office, or cottage. As Oomen herself remarks, “It becomes a visual journey, as your eye travels, taking in water, then shoreline, horizon and sky. Perhaps for a few moments, through this journey, we have imagined ourselves there.”
Having grown up in a large Dutch farming family in the Kingston, Ontario area, Oomen remains close to her roots. While she has made her home in Utopia, Ontario, her paintings are often inspired by the landscapes, lakes, and waterways of the Thousand Islands region, Algonquin Park, and the Muskokas.
A graduate of the Fine Arts Program at Queen’s University, Kingston, Susan Oomen is represented by Studio 22 in Kingston, Ontario and Roberts Gallery in Toronto. Susan has shown in galleries throughout Canada for over 30 years and has just completed solo shows in 2016 and 2014 at Roberts Gallery, and at Studio 22 in 2015. She has received various awards and grants over the years and her work can be found in public and private collections throughout Canada and the United States. Her painting titled ‘Annie’s Wake’ was featured in September 2016 on the cover of the American Psychologist.
Very few artists are ever bestowed with diplomatic honours, the keys to the city, or even credited with representing the soul of a place. Robert Blenderman, however, is one of those rare artists. After nearly 60 years capturing the spirit if Kingston in paint, Blenderman hasn’t yet been given the key to the city, but he has amassed a well-deserved following of admirers and collectors. Of his work and the adopted home which continues to inspire him, Blenderman says, “In my paintings I try to capture the essence of Kingston’s urban uniqueness and Canada’s abundant natural beauty.”
Blenderman’s tireless imagination is hardly exhausted by local streetscapes and landscapes. Realistic, classically styled still lives and wildly expressive abstracts have also been the subject of his attention over the years.
Through a lifelong dedication to developing his natural gift, along with his admirably disciplined focus, Blenderman has produced an impressive ouvre during his long career. Studio 22 is extremely fortunate to represent an artist of such vast talent and thrilled to be able to exhibit new paintings from a beloved local icon.
From the Introduction to his book: Kingston, A City in Canada: Paintings by Robert A. Blenderman:
“Robert A. Blenderman has been painting since 1960. His works have been shown in galleries in Kingston, Germany, and the USA. He is a self-taught artist who has painted many kinds of subjects in different media. His painting styles have been varied, to say the least. He has tried them all, mostly successfully. His sailboat paintings in the 1960s and 1990s probably demonstrate this the most clearly, for in these one can see examples of realism, impressionism, cubism, expressionism, and semi-abstractionism. His landscapes can be soft and impressionistic, semi-abstract, or verging on pure abstract expressionism in the progressively less representational works. Blenderman’s still-lifes in oil tend to be hyper-realistic, having something of a Dutch Baroque quality mixed with a kind of orientalism, a quite beautiful combination. And his oil paintings of Kingston storefronts are Hopper-like in their stillness and timelessness-not to mention their style and subject, too.”
Gary Michail Dault – Onyx Still Life (with feather)
Hersh Jacob – It Looks Like Rain – SOLD
Holly Dean – Over Men and Horses, Hoops and Garters
Jane Derby – What Remains
Josephine Wren – A Promise
Keight MacLean – Sibyle
Kevin Merritt – Beastie Bots – SOLD
Margaret Hughes – Terra Murata, Procida – SOLD
Osvaldo Gonzalez Herrera – Retrato
Patti Leishman – great big popi
Phillida Hargreaves – Beached
Rebecca Cowan – Aine
Robert Blenderman – Summer Sailing
Rose Stewart – Contingency #1
Sharon Thompson – Fall in Erika’s Studio
Stefan Duerst – Bubbling Spring #8
Su Sheedy – Lichen 4
Susan Oomen – Kitchen Window
Susan Paloschi – The Little Golden Tree
Teresa Mrozicka – Mystical Land
Ulrich Panzer – Untitled 2016
Vadim Vaskovsky – Nancy
Wallace Edwards – Whalephant
Andrew Danson Danushevsky – Intimacy
February 14th to March 25th
Every work of art is unique, created to exist not just for itself, but to be loved. Studio 22 is proud to launch its 2017 Season with the group exhibition, I Love THIS PIECE. The show features singular works from the past collections of 30 artists. Each work has been selected by the artist because it represents a piece which they feel deeply about; works which have yet to find their soulmates.
I Love THIS PIECE is on exhibit at Studio 22 located at 320 King Street East, Kingston from Tuesday, February 14th until March 25th, 2017.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 6pm, Thursdays till 8pm, Fridays till 10pm.
Studio 22 Open Gallery is thrilled to present Fluid Forms, new work by artist Stefan Duerst. The dynamic forms of Stefan Duerst’s steel sculptures emerge as the fluid embodiment of his deeply creative essence. The exhibition will feature new works created exclusively by Duerst as well as new collaborative pieces by Duerst and German graffiti artist Loomit.
The art of collaboration requires a curious nature, a strong sense of experimentalism and an abundance of trust. To find a kindred spirit, especially in the art world, which can often be quite isolating, creates a unique opportunity for openness, artistic development and inspiration. This year Duerst, who is no stranger to collaboration, invited the graffiti artist Loomit to work with him on a new series of steel sculptures. After heating, bending and shaping the steel into his characteristically sensuous and suggestive abstract shapes, Duerst entrusted them to Loomit, who transformed the raw steel finish with his mastery of spray painting. For those who are familiar with Duerst’s work, there are signature favourites; the ribbon-like Soul Gate and the provocative Kommunikation series, to name a few. Yet the results of this artistic collaboration are astonishingly new.
Two early pieces were created in Duerst’s Godfrey studio and shipped to Munich, Germany where Loomit applied his finishing touch. The rest of the collaboration took place during an exceptional week in September, 2016 which Loomit spent in residence at Duerst’s Studio at Godfrey Sculpture Park. No doubt, like Duerst himself, Loomit was inspired by the incredible natural beauty of the Canadian landscape. The juxtaposition of graffiti art applied to three-dimensional sculpture is akin to the very notion of using a material as industrial as steel in shapes as fluid as fabric.
German-born Stefan Duerst has been experimenting with metal since 1992, first as a blacksmith and ultimately as as an abstract sculpture artist. He emigrated to Canada in 2002, inspired by the wilderness of the Canadian Shield, where he lives, creates, and inspires others on the 60 acre property which he has developed into Godfrey Sculpture Park. Munich-based Loomit has been working in the medium of spray paint since 1983, combining creative lettering and imagery, and establishing himself as an internationally recognized graffiti artist for his large wall productions.
FLUID FORMS will be on display from November 15 – December 23.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Thursdays until 8 pm, and Friday Evenings until 10 pm.
Studio 22 Open Gallery is delighted to present Collective Sparks, an exhibition of new work by the Shag Rug Collective.
Composed of some of the most respected and established artists in the Kingston community, the Shag Rug Collective represents an array of diverse styles and varied subject matter. For many years the members of the artists’ collective, which was named after the yellow shag rug which once adorned the studio of founding member, Erika Olson, have gathered together to inspire and nourish each others creativity. Each individual brings their own unique perspective to the treasured experience of working together in a group setting, often around a shared still life, and the collective sparks which these gatherings ignite.
In addition to the animated still lives of Studio 22’s seasoned artists, Erika Olson and Margaret Hughes, the exhibition also includes the vibrant landscapes of Sharon Thompson and Josephine Wren, as well as the imaginative abstraction of Evelyn Rapin, Rose Stewart and Deborah Brown.
Erika Olson finds inspiration working from life—particularly the perishable and delicate nature of food—elevating the domestic sphere into the realm of art.
Fall Still Life – $4500 – 4’x6′ oil on canvas
Asian Pears – $450 – 11″x14″ oil on board
Butter – $500 – 12″x16″ oil on board
Espresso – SOLD
Mussels Open – $275 – 5″x8″ oil on canvas
Mussels Closed – $275 – 5″x8″ oil on canvas
Raspberry Pie – $400 – 9″x12″ – oil on board
Hamburger – $500 – 17.5″x18.5″ photoshop & oil on canvas
Grapefruit – $450 – 12″x16″ – oil on board
Red Pepper – $400 – 9″x12″ oil on board
Stuffed Green Pepper – $400 – 9″x12″ oil on board
Cakes and Pies – $1250 – 24″x30″ oil on canvas
Pomegranate – $800 – 25″x29″ oil on board
Margaret Hughes, an accomplished ceramicist, painter and pastel artist, often bridges the gap between her various media by drawing images of her own ceramic pieces.
Blue Vase Red Teapot – SOLD
Chinese Lanterns – $700 – 19.5″x18.5″ chalk pastel
Daffodils and Two Jugs – $800 – 19″x25″ chalk pastel
Flowers and Blue Bottle – SOLD
Jo’s Studio – SOLD
Potted Plant – $450 19″x11.75″ chalk pastel
Teapot and Mushroom – $600 – 18.5″x19.75″ chalk pastel
Sharon Thompson, an artist of diverse inspiration, creates memorable works from landscapes to abstraction, or whatever happens to catch her well trained eye.
Autumn Along Highway 41 – $675 – 28″x24″ oil/sand on panel
Clouds over Cedar Lake, AP – $700 oil on panel
Light on Cedar Lake – $600 – 21″x29″ oil on panel
Marsh, Cedar Lake, AP – $780 – 26″x30″ oil on panel
Pine Tree Forest, AB – $825 – 32″x26″ Acrylic
Pine Trees #2 CCA – $650 – 24″x27″ oil on panel
Pine Trees in the CCA#1 – SOLD
Sky and Lake, Cedar Lake – $550 – 22″x25″ oil on panel
View Across the Marsh – $600 – 22″x28″ oil on panel
Wind on Cedar Lake – SOLD
Josephine Wren paints the world around her, in part because the act of creation connects her to her own existence, resulting in lush landscapes and still lives.
Lake Calabogie – $735 – 24″x24″ oil on board
Fallen Leaves – $735 – 24″x24″ oil on board
Calabogie Swamp Pond – $735 – 24″x24″ oil on board
Lake Sunward, Calabogie – $735 – 24″x24″ oil on board
Lake Sunward Gazebo – $435 – 16″x19.5″ oil on canvas
Reflection, Shadows – $435 – 16″x19.5″ oil on canvas
Still Life in Sunward Farmhouse – SOLD
Evelyn Rapin frequently bases her intensely colourful imagery on musical themes, creating lively works of abstraction.
Musical Line II $2000 – 36″x23″ Acrylic/chalk pastels on paper
Wheels I – $2000 – 36″x23″ Acrylic/chalk pastels on paper
Wheels II – $2000 – 36″x23″ Acrylic/chalk pastels on paper
Pioneer I – $2000 – 36″x23″ Acrylic/chalk pastels on paper
Free Improvisation I – $980 – 24″x24″ oil on birch panel
Free Improvisation III – $980 – 24″x24″ oil on birch panel
Free Improvisation VI – SOLD
Rose Stewart’s abstract compositions dance with eclectic forms and vibrant colours.
Dance 1 – $1700 – 20″x26″ oil on paper
Dance 3 – $1700 – 26″x20″ oil on paper
Dance 4 – $1700 – 20″x26″ oil on paper
Dance 5 – $1700 – 20″x26″ oil on paper
Play 1 – $400 – 8″x10.5″ pastel
Play 2 – $400 – 8″x10.5″ pastel
Play 3 – $400 – 8″x10.5″ pastel
Play 4 – $400 – 8″x10.5″ pastel
Play 5 – $400 – 8″x10.5″ pastel
Terrain 2 – $1700 – 20″x26″ oil on paper
Deborah Brown creates intricate and organic abstract drawings.
Fluentem- $800 – 30″x22.5″ ink and watercolour on paper
Pacis – $800 – 30″x22.5″ ink and watercolour on paper
Collective Sparks will be on display from November 15 – December 23, 2016.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Thursdays until 8 pm, and Friday Evenings until 10 pm.
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