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During the past few years, when uncertainty loomed and our collective resolve was put to the test, Margaret Sutherland turned to an online course, which used the traditional technique of copying the faces in Old Master works, to improve her technique as well as help her find her creative path forward. There are paintings of lone figures feeling their way along, and ones which look at other societal questions. There are small copies and interpretations of details from old master paintings, from one hundred to four hundred years ago. Sutherland found these richly rewarding to paint leading her to research the historical and social backgrounds of the artists and their sitters, which reminded her that all these people lived through threatening times of pandemics, wars, religious persecution, and other calamities, yet still created great works that continue to reach out to us today.
The composition of this exhibit jumps off with work composed after her last solo exhibit Flesh and follows her exploration of the old masters and then lands in a fresh new place with a more vibrant palette and a renewed creative energy.
Preview and presale for this exhibit will take place Tuesday, November 1st and Wednesday, November 2nd. Exhibit opens to the general public for purchasing on Thursday, November 3rd.
Halloween-themed Opening Reception will take place Thursday evening, November 3rd from 7-9pm. Costumes are not required but encouraged
Artist Statement:
Well, it’s been a time! It still is. Things are beginning to feel a little more familiar, if not normal. We are challenged by continually having to update our neural software. Slowly, frustratingly slowly, we seem to be learning to roll with the punches of recent health, climate and political crisis. We may be onto some meaningful path without much lurching into the ditches of the desperation or denial. This collection of work traces my own bumpy, frequently interrupted artistic and personal ride of the past three years.
Continuing to explore, I began to have fun with tubes of pretty, bright colours of paint that I had never or rarely used. Expanding on my classical palette led me to experiment with painting more loosely, expressively, and abstractly, viewing my work from a slightly different perspective.
Recently, a last Teris block seemed to drop into place. When I finally felt more comfortable being in the company of others outside my bubble, I realized that what I was lacking was the regular human contact with friend and particularly arts colleagues. With the renewal of that emotional and intellectual rubbing up against each other, new possibilities emerged and I was able to return to the social questions with some recalibrated tools in my art bag. Art is difficult to find in a vacuum or a cocoon, apparently.
Kingston-based artist Margaret Sutherland is a highly skilled and professionally trained artist committed to creating art that is unwaveringly thought provoking. In 2015 she received national attention for the resale of her painting Emperor Haute Couture (2011).
A decade after graduating from Queen’s University in Arts and then Education, Margaret Sutherland formalized her professional art pursuit with a Master of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) in 2001 from The Graduate School of Figurative Art of The New York Academy of Art. Her path to fine art was organic, yet circuitous, having spent time teaching at home and abroad in Hong Kong with her husband — and realizing that her passion lay in something else. Sutherland grew her skill in community groups and high school art courses open to adults through NDSS before pursuing her degree.
The artist’s emotionally evoking work provides commentary on both the sociological and biographical realm. Her highly sought after oil paintings are in numerous private collections.


Have you spent the better part of 2019 staring at blank walls?
Have you dreamed of finding a perfect one-of-a-kind signature piece for your home or office?
2019 has been a great year for Studio22. We have had 8 successful solo shows as well as acquired a number of fabulous new artists. It is our desire to end the year with an exhibit that offers the most exceptional pieces to our most valued customers for their homes and offices.
Exhibit opens on December 6th.
Mark your calendars as it would be a colossal mistake to miss Something Big!



While Margaret Sutherland and Jane Derby have studios beside each other, the art they make couldn’t be more different, both in materials as well as subject matter. It was during the course of a casual conversation over tea last fall that they discovered a technically sound and deeply thought provoking thematic link with respect to their current work. At the time, Sutherland was deeply preoccupied with the exploration of flesh and the study of the human figure, while Derby’s studies involved the examination of the human skeleton. It was out of this very conversation that the title and idea for this new exhibit, Flesh and Bone, was born. Flesh and Bone, a joint show of new work by Margaret Sutherland and Jane Derby, will be on display at Studio22 from October 29th to November 30th.
“Of course, the subject matter flesh and bone necessarily references the concept of “Memento Mori”, the artistic or symbolic reminder of our mortality. A common theme in figure painting and still life, the point of this reminder isn’t to be morbid, but to inspire an urgent sense of the meaningfulness of life.” – Jane Derby
Margaret Sutherland is a Kingston-based artist who received national attention for the resale of her painting Emperor Haute Couture (2005), which depicted former Prime Minister Stephen Harper reclining in the nude, that sold privately to a buyer in B.C. for 4x’s its original sale price just ahead of her very successful exhibit – Roller Derby, Politics and Other Blood Sports – with Studio22 back in October of 2015. Sutherland’s work has, at its heart, a preoccupation with the cultural ideal of the body and society’s distorted perception of the external form. While bone structures are generally very similar, the flesh on top manifests itself in very different ways. Her work critiques the traditional rendering of the figure and exposes the judgement we place on one another and ourselves.
Jane Derby, a native Kingston artist with a loyal and solid local following, uses a variety of techniques to repurpose discarded and everyday materials. Inspiration for her skeletal subject matter came from the winter she spent drawing at the Queen’s Anatomy Museum. Derby explores the notion of the bones and ribcage of the house. She chooses as material, lath, strips of wood left exposed in older houses where lath and plaster are replaced by drywall. The aging process created subtle differences in the colors of the wood, and the artist uses this as the substate on which she gouges and inks skeletal shapes. The work hints of the bones as fossils, bone structures buried deep in permanent material.
Flesh and Bone is a show of two separate, yet complimentary, bodies of work by two unique artists that viewed side by side reminds us of our own mortality and suggests that perhaps beauty is not only skin deep.
A decade after graduating from Queen’s University in Arts and then Education, Margaret Sutherland formalized her professional art pursuit with a Master of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) in 2001 from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art. Her highly sought oil paintings are in numerous private collections across the country.
Since graduating from OCAD with honors in 2007, Jane Derby has worked full time as an artist. Her work has been shown in Kingston, Ottawa and Toronto. Derby has won a number of prizes and awards, including the Environmental Spirit Award from the Recycling Council of Ontario. She is an active member of the Kingston arts community, organizing and jurying shows, participating in environmental action, and being on the board of the Organization of Kingston Women Artists. This is her second exhibit with Studio22.
Flesh and Bone is on exhibit at Studio22 from Tuesday, October 29th until Saturday, November 30th. Previews and pre-sales will take place from October 29th – 30th. Margaret Sutherland and Jane Derby will give a joint artist talk at the gallery that is open to the public on Thursday, November 21st at 5:15pm.


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