media  release

 
August 3~30



Floyd G. Elzinga                        

THE BROKEN LANDSCAPE

Elzinga's recent work explores the traditional landscape through non traditional techniques and this show focuses on the idea of a broken landscape.


Launch Opening with the Artist:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7
2~4PM     everyone is welcome
   
 
Floyd Elzinga grew up actively involved in the landscape on a dairy farm outside Jarvis, Ontario. He could draw the best elephant in grade one and everyone knew he was predestined to be an artist.

Floyd Elzinga's work is fundamentally inspired by the natural world.  Elzinga's recent work explores the traditional landscape through non-traditional techniques and this show focuses on the idea of a broken landscape.

The landscapes are broken in several possible ways. In some the subject matter breaks the frame of the landscape. In others the landscape is cobbled together of different panels and there are visual breaks in the picture or story. And finally through the features of the landscape, some trees show the telltale signs of history of brokenness through the deadwood still clinging to the living structure. In the title piece for the show all three types of brokenness are present.

As a sculptor, Elzinga's work has been predominately three dimensional, but after a bout of ‘painter envy' he was inspired to create a series of flat wall hangings of traditional landscapes. The process became an integral part of the content, with the welder as his pencil and the grinder as his paintbrush.

He was initially drawn to create these paintings in steel because the material (steel) is forgiving.  It is a common, fast-working material that is very malleable, allowing him to sketch his thoughts in quick line-drawing style panels but also spend great time and skill on creating persuasively formed objects.
 
He presently lives and works in the landscape surrounding his studio in Beamsville, Ontario.

 

 

 

 

  

Wendy Cain


Fluid Paper

June 6~30, 2010

Launch Opening:

SUNDAY, JUNE 6

2~4PM

ARTIST TALK: 3PM

EVERYONE IS WELCOME




Wendy Cain


statement

The work in this exhibition is as much about the nature of papermaking as it is about gardening in Nature. Both of these activities juggle for time and attention, dependant upon the season and the pressure of deadlines.

The works are made with cotton fibre, but the important factor is the length of time for the preparation of the fibre. After three hours of beating, the pulp is so smooth and creamy that there are no discernable fibres remaining and can be coloured with pigments to make fluid pulps which can be manipulated like more traditional paints, combined to make a full palette of colour which can be sprayed and layered. The difference is that the making of the image and the work is simultaneous.

In the summer, plant materials are gathered and used in the studio as direct stencil materials with fine layers of sprayed pulps. It is the very unpredictability of the process which continues to draw the artist to the studio again and again.

 

 

bio


WENDY CAIN holds an Honours Degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA and is an A.O.C.A. (Associate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario). 

Since 1972, she has had fifteen solo exhibitions, the most recent, Shipwreck Dreaming, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario and MVS Gallery, Brockville, ON.  She has participated in over two hundred group exhibitions, most as a Canadian printmaker and papermaker. 

Recently, her work has focused on the practices of hand papermaking, and she has established a paper studio in Newburgh, Ontario.  She currently teaches printmaking and papermaking at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto as Associate Professor of Art and is Past Chair of Printmaking.

 

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  UPCOMING:


JORDAN ART GALLERY IS HONOURED TO PRESENT


Olga Philip



Marks on Paper


a retrospective in nature that includes work from each decade of the artist's career

July 3~30

Launch Opening with the Artist:

SATURDAY, JULY  3
2~4PM

Everyone is Welcome


statement
 
This exhibition is retrospective in nature and includes works from each decade of the artist's career.
There are hints and examples here as to the kinds of art media that Olga has used and taught. Representational, figurative and abstract works are included. Thematically, the artist works from a humanistic understanding of herself in the world.

bio

Olga is a mixed media artist living in Toronto. She has exhibited her art work in galleries across Canada for over thirty years. In her various exhibitions she has featured works using etching, lithography and collage. Handmade paper as an expressive medium has been especially important to her. Teaching printmaking and drawing at the Ontario College of Art and Design has also complimented and informed her work as an artist.
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D. Heather Moore, A.O.C.A.

 

Fragments of Time

May 1~30

The Fragments series, mixed media on canvas, is new work produced this year.

Inspired by the imagery of shrouds and the remains of ancient texts, Fragments of Time represents an exploration of the changing nature of all things and the beauty found in the textures of transition. Folded and fragile forms, creased and decaying cloth, crumbling parchment - images of illusion, memory and impermanence.

launch reception with artist in attendance:

SUNDAY, MAY 9

2~4PM

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Heather attended both the Artists Workshop and the Ontario College of Art and has painted and worked as an Art Director since the 1970's. Having explored many media she is best known for her collage and watercolours, which have won many awards.

She moved to New Zealand with her husband Larry Bloss (illustrator and Master Engraver) and they established a design consultancy, painted and taught at the Whitecliffe School of Art. Heather also served as Chairman of the Arts Council. Returning to Canada in 1989 they lived in Jordan for several years prior to Larry's death in 2003.

In 2006, Heather was awarded an Irish Cill Rialaig Residency. These retreats have been offered to writers and painters from around the world. Time spent alone there in an isolated cottage led to a period of intense work and personal exploration. (Much of 'The Underpainter' by Jane Urquhart was written in the same studio/cottage).

The Zen esthetic informs Heather's work, layering it with a serene and meditative quality.

Her work has been widely exhibited and is in private and corporate collections in Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Britain, Ireland and Norway.

 

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William Valentin Cyopik

1921-2003

The Mysterious Power Of Colour

April 3~30

opening reception

Saturday, April 3
2~4PM

everyone is welcome


William Valentin Cyopik

1921-2003

William Cyopik was born in Welland in 1921.  As a child, Cyopik took an early interest in visual art, crediting his public school teacher for planting the seed that would become his life's pursuit.  As a teen, he studied commercial design, later at the Doon School of Fine Arts he studied under Frederick Varley and Arthur Lismer (both of the Group of Seven).  He also studied for a time in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico and the Albright Art School in Buffalo, New York.  

During the early years Cyopik won many awards.  In 1963, Cyopik's painting; The Big Country was selected by the National Gallery of Canada for the Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painters which toured to the Common Wealth Institute in London, England.  His work has been included in numerous exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Hamilton Art Gallery, Rodman Hall (permanent collection), Jordan Art Gallery, The Pumphouse Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and Buffalo's Albright Knox Art Gallery.  His work is also represented in many private collections.

In his earlier paintings, Cyopik painted what was familiar to him, visual experiences encountered in everyday life and most importantly, members of his family.  The love for his family was evident in the many paintings in which they appear. Selma, his wife of 52 years; son Randy an artist himself and daughter Ainslie, formerly a professional dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and now a fashion designer.  

His later works that perhaps best show his creative output focus on the constantly changing drama of the night sky; meteor showers, pinpoints of light and stars that lived and died long before the sun and earth were born.  

William Cyopik was an active painter continuing his unbounded love for the expressive and mysterious power of colour until his death in 2003.  His favourite adage, 

"Colour Is Everything"!

OPEN EVERY DAY                     JORDANARTGALLERY.COM

 

 

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JOHN GILL

Twist of Fate

Utilizing
the fascinating new medium of
twist ties

March 3~30


Artist Statement

Utilizing the fascinating new medium of twist ties I juxtapose the man-made with the natural. My sculptures implement the use and manipulation of an ordinary item, the twist-tie, to mimic the extraordinary beauty of nature.
The making of a twist-tie contributes to the exhaustion of the resources of our natural world, only to become disposable waste and a detriment to the local eco-system.
I decided to experiment further, using twist-ties to create line drawings. From a distance the twist-ties could not be determined and the drawing resembled charcoal or coloured pastel. The completed artworks seem to be trapped at the cusp of dimensions. The moment of transition floating before the viewer, neither a drawing nor a sculpture: just somewhere magically in between.

Artist Biography

John Gill attended Niagara College and obtained a diploma in General College: Fine Arts (1990). He worked as a graphic artist for two years and continued on self-employed for a few more. He has worked for the LCBO for fifteen years but recently obtained a Visual Arts degree (2009), at Brock University and is currently completing his Bachelor of Education to become an elementary school teacher. He has also developed an art workshop for children called Artwists, where children can manipulate coloured twist-ties to create three-dimensional objects or arrangements and two-dimensional drawings.



 HEART TO HEART             to bid online, click HERE

AUCTION OF ART

 

 

Silent Auction with portion of proceeds to benefit the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

Opening reception and preview: Sunday, February 7, 2~4PM


Participate in this exciting opportunity to bid on valuable art for the month of February!

Jordan Art Gallery artists and owners Janny Fraser, Joyce Honsberger, George Langbroek, Mori McCrae, Michelle Teitsma, Jan Yates, Sandy Middleton and Robyn Kennedy have created works from their hearts and artistic souls for this worthy event. The aptly titled show and silent auction: ‘Heart to Heart', pays homage to love and generosity of spirit represented by Valentines Day.

A portion of sales from the artful auction will be going to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario is a non profit charitable organization that has been tirelessly fighting to eliminate heart disease and stroke to improve the quality of life for thousands of Canadians. There is an estimated 70,000 heart attacks each year in Canada. That's one heart attack every seven minutes. About 40,000 Canadians experience cardiac arrest every year. That's one cardiac arrest every twelve minutes. Over 17,000 Canadians die each year as the result of a heart attack. Most of these deaths occur out of hospital.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario encourages Canadians to make heart-healthy choices. Just as important, they campaign government as well as the public and private sector to develop policies and programs to support healthy communities and reduce inequalities that negatively affect the health and well being of Canadians. A labour of love, indeed.

The opening for this event will take place Sunday, February 7, from 2~4PM and everyone is welcome.
For the month of February, visitors to the Jordan Art Gallery are welcome to bid on any of the works available for auction. The value of the artwork will be listed and all of the artists have agreed to reduce the price of their work to encourage sales. Patrons will be able to bid and counter bid for the duration of the show. Each bidder will be assigned a number, to be used upon bidding. If another wishes to bid on the same artwork, the bid will then go up, which adds to the excitement of the show! At the end of the month, all bidders will be contacted to get a 'last chance' to place their bid. Closing bids will be called at 5 PM Sunday, Feb 28.

The winners will go home with a great deal on a valuable painting, mixed media work, photograph or jewelry made with love by a local Niagara artist.They will also know that they have contributed to the betterment of the lives of those who's hearts are in need by contributing to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
 

To bid online, click HERE
 

 

 

 

 

 

SANDY MIDDLETON

 ‘On beauty'

 JANUARY 2~30

PHOTOGRAPHS ON ALUMINUM

 
LAUNCH OPENING WITH THE ARTIST:

SATURDAY
JANUARY 16

2~4PM

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!



ABOUT

Sandy Middleton has worked as a photographer in many diverse forms for over twenty years. After graduating from Ryerson Polytechnic University with a BAA in still photography in 1991 she lived in Toronto for 17 years, working  as both a commercial and fine art photographer. Not quite finding her true niche, Sandy left the field to pursue other artistic endeavors such as interior design and mixed media.

While living in Niagara for the past eight years Middleton has finally found the inspiration and balance she was searching for. She works in both designer craft by making her photography as functional pieces, as well as fine art by creating several ongoing image based series.

In 2009 Sandy had her first public art work purchased by the City of St. Catharines. Currently, she is working on a ‘Transformation Series' which involves documenting the optimistic revival of the city of St. Catharines.

Sandy Middletoin has recently accepted an invitation to join the Jordan Art Gallery owners and they welcome her in January, 2010, as a new partner.




STATEMENT


On beauty
 
 
The images in this series are a juxtaposition of the beauty of the natural world and the beauty in the industrial elements we live amongst every day. The natural landscape for many of us is no longer in our own backyards- we must travel to get beyond the city limits to find it. 

In that respect one must learn to adapt to the beauty in the not so natural landscape. I have found this awesome quality seldom recognized in towering bridges, billboard stands and ferry ports mixed with the true elegance of trees, rolling hills and birds in flight.

These images can be seen as metaphors of the dilemma of unconscious beauty in our modern existence.

I have printed this series in black and white on aluminum panels giving a dimensional experience to the work.
 

Sandy Middleton

BAA

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Sunday, December 6

Holiday Opening 2009

Come celebrate the holidays this Sunday, December 6, at the Jordan Art Gallery! Bring your friends and family and join us for a festive opening exhibition.

A selection of small works by Niagara artist members of the Parkway Artist Guild and St. Catharines Art Association are featured and the artists themselves will be joining us between 2 & 4PM.

Selected works are by: Linda Crabtree, Jody Edwards, Rose Finnigan, Margaret Feaver, Lianne Fishee, Gloria Kingma, J.Lalonde, Helen Michlik, Jared Robinson, Rolf Stecher & Beverly Sneath.

We are also excited to feature a LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY LINDSEY MILLS!

Lindsey Mills was born and raised in the U.S and later moved to Canada. Mills' exposure to a wide variety of music has earned her a reputation of being an eclectic musician and songwriter. She has studied since the age of four and holds many degrees in music. Lindsey writes, records teaches, and directs music in the beautiful region of Niagara, Ontario. She has released several CD recordings featuring original compositions and is currently working on her new CD "JOURNEY." Performing extensively throughout Canada and the United States, Lindsey Mills continues to share her journeys and stories through music.

Our guest artists have also brought in new blown glass sculptures, solar lights, kaleidoscopes and paperweights; turned wood pieces include hand carved wine glass stems and stoppers, holiday ornaments and vessels made of burl and lilac root; new raku, jewelry and scarves as well as ‘paintings in steel' by Floyd Elzinga. Introducing book series by Eva Tihanyi and CDs by St. Catharines musicians 'Barnhouse Static'.
We welcome guests to tour and view the extraordinary work that has been created this season.

The Jordan Art Gallery would like to thank our devoted, local patrons who maintain their support for our Niagara Artists as well as clients from far and abroad who continuously revisit the gallery to experience the growth of our amazing artists and their work.

*Don't miss this special event - we look forward to seeing you at JAG!

Happy Holidays!

JORDAN ART GALLERY

Lillian Aylesworth, Janny Fraser, Joyce Honsberger, George Langbroek, Mori McCrae, Michelle Teitsma, Jan Yates

 

 

 

 

 

  ‘Citified'

urban pastels

 by

Gordon Leverton, SCA

November 2-30

Launch reception
 with the Artist:

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8

  2-4 PM

EVERYONE WELCOME



Gordon Leverton  SCA

artist statement

I see beauty in our aging urban strata. In Hamilton, Ontario, where I reside, the effects of nature over time have eroded the buildings and infrastructure, transforming them greatly. I look too at the banal and mundane - tract housing, parking lots, apartment blocks - and find challenge in exploring the traditional and narrow view of what is beautiful.

Geometry features prominently in my work; I endeavor to keep the composition orderly, relying on layered areas of complex colour to complement the simple lines. Although people rarely appear in my paintings, I'm always conscious of the impact that these places have over the individual. I let the buildings take centre stage and allow the "presence" of man to be felt via the architecture. These buildings, hence, are personified and in effect the paintings become "building portraits".

I use dry media (pastels, pencils, charcoal, conte), then create a 'wash' by brushing over the paper surface with solvent or distilled water. My colour palette is vivid and earthy like the subjects I paint - using very few colours to achieve the results I am after.  Influences are drawn from colourists like Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn who, aside from their genius for composition, shape and colour, both straddled the line between realism and abstract.

Lately I have been particularly drawn to alleyways, both in the Hamilton core and parts of Toronto. The solitude I find here enables me to more closely dissect these scenes into forms, striving to capture the stillness of the alleys in an uneasy, voyeuristic sense. 

Gordon Leverton  SCA

Bio

When not outside looking for inspiration in back alleys, factory grounds and industrial spaces, Gordon Leverton finds time to pursue his art career and enjoy family life. A self-taught artist, Gordon's previous incarnations - as picture framer, writer, retailer and entrepreneur - have helped form his art direction; that of urban decay and architectural design. Born in Chatham, Ontario, his formative years spent in the rural southwest farm belt gives him a unique perspective on the body of this work.

Gordon is a member of several guilds and artist groups including: Burlington Art Centre, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton Artists Inc., Sunrise Gallery (Hamilton), and is an elected member of The Society of Canadian Artists. His artwork has shown in the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Todmorden Mills Museum in Toronto, Montreal's Ogilvy Hall and the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery. Many various private and corporate collections are home to his work, including the City of Toronto fine art collection in St. Lawrence Market.

The year 2008 has been a successful one for Gordon, having taken first place awards in the Junction Juried Art Exhibition and the Riverdale Art Walk in Toronto. He makes his home in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife Nancy and two children.




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 Present In Three Places

 

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah  

 

Landscape Paintings in Oil from the Arctic, Nova Scotia and Georgian Bay, Ontario

October 1~ 30

 

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah strives to find a connection with the common spirit present in all places. It is the essence he believes to be the connection between him, that place and everyone and thing having been present and having an effect on the existence of that place.
This search for connection is expressed through his exploration of the different styles presented here. He works from sketches or his own photographs taken on painting visits to these locations.
The Arctic paintings are part of a body of work created as a result of a painting expedition to that region in 2006. Other work featured in the show is from various trips to Georgian Bay and Nova Scotia.

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario.

Launch Reception:

Saturday, October 10

2~4PM

everyone is welcome

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah was born in 1956 in Guyana, South America and attended Queen's College where he won the school Art Prize in 1971. At age 16 he took employment as a designer/illustrator/art director at Ace Advertisers in Georgetown until he immigrated to Canada in 1974. Here he attended The Ontario College of Art, George Brown College and Ryerson University in their part-time continuing education programs.

An active member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has served several terms on their Art Committee. He is currently the convenor of the Sunday Figurative Painting Sessions at the Club, and Chair of Exhibitions for the Society Of Canadian Artists.

Andrew Cheddie Sookrah has displayed his work at the Outdoor Art Show at City Hall, Distillery District Art Shows, and group shows with the Arts And Letters Club of Toronto. In 2004 he staged his first solo show of figurative work at the Club - Interviews From The Third Floor - Various Positions. His work has been included in three juried shows put on by the SCA, the 38th Annual in Montreal, the Spring Show at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Coburg and the 41st Open Juried Show in Toronto in 2009. In 2005, his second solo show, Parallel States Of Being, was staged at The Lodge on Amherst Island. In 2006 Andrew participated in the Annual Queen West Art Crawl at the Gladstone Hotel as well as Arctic Quest 06 group shows at the Win Henstock Gallery, the Georgina Art Gallery, the Gallery on the Grand in Waterloo Ontario, and the Linkway Gallery at the TD Centre in Toronto. 2006 also included two solo exhibitions, the Lawless Gallery in Grafton and the Engine Room Creative Gallery. In 2007 he participated in Nuit Blanche 07 with his presentation of "IN FEAR WE TRUST" in collaboration with The Arts & Letters Club Of Toronto. In 2008, a part of the Club's centenary celebrations he presented three installations as part of Spillage!, on Elm Street. His work was shown in two galleries as part of the OSA Summer 09 - The Win Henstock Gallery in Oakville and the Pentimento Gallery in Toronto.

He is currently the owner and creative director of Engine Room Creative, a creative and design development studio in Toronto. His work is currently in Corporate and Private Collections in Canada and the US.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americo Del Col

Tibor Nyilasi

 

September

1~30

MUSIC & ART

RECEPTION:

Sunday

SEPTEMBER 13

FEATURING LIVE MUSIC BY

BARNHOUSE STATIC

www.myspace.com/barnhousestatic

2~4PM

everyone welcome

'Music moves people to cry, to laugh, to cheer, to shout, to applaud. It moves me to paint and translate my emotional response to it.'  Americo Del Col

 

 

Americo Del Col

Americo Del Col received his formal art training at Central Technical School when it was staffedby such illustrious instructors as Charles Goldhamer, Virginia Luz , Doris McCarthy and Robert Ross. After graduating in the early fifties Del Col spent the ensuing years as a graphic artist and art director, but always maintained his passion for painting. By 1972 fine art had become a much more focussed pursuit.

In 1980 Americo presented his first solo exhibition and was encouraged by the audience's response. It wasn't long after, that he gave up his job to concentrate on painting and teaching full time.This led to instructing adult watercolour classes with the North York Board of Educationand selected private organizations. In 1995, he founded ‘Three Valleys Watercolour Workshops', teaching dynamic and inspiring workshops year round. He paints with watercolour but also with acrylic and mixed media. Del Col has participated in numerous solo and invitational exhibitions including the acclaimed CSPWC. His work is collected both nationally and abroad and can be found in private as well as corporate collections including Imperial Oil, First Canadian Capital Zurich Insurance and the Ontario Medical Association. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Mary.

Tibor Nyilasi

Tibor Nyilasi's aim and objective has always been to solve figurative challenges of everyday life. He deals with the human form as an isolated study or in-group compositions, and has a particular interest in drawing in locations where there are people in action. Of particular interest to him is making line drawings while at the theatre. Nyilasi turns the rhythm and movement of the performance into a lively, continuous line. From these drawings he creates his major watercolour, oil, mixed media and mosaic compositions. The free and fluid colours charge these compositions with a lyrical quality. Nyilasi is always willing to explore all the possibilities of each medium he uses.

Nyilasi is a respected teacher and educator who taught art in secondary schools for over thirty years. Nyilasi is now retired from teaching. Tibor is known for his figurative work in drawings, watercolours, and mosaics. After winning the Medal for Proficiency in Drawing and Painting from the Government of France in 1964, he has exhibited both in Ontario and throughout Europe. His commissions include a mosaic in Nagano, Japan and he is represented in such notable collections as the Royal Collection of Drawings and Watercolours in Windsor Castle, England. He has participated in international exhibitions and completed large commissions. His work is held in collections of corporations and also 12 municipal, provincial, and national art galleries. Tibor's work is included in public and private collections throughout Canada and Europe, Australia, and Japan and well as The Royal Collection of Drawings and Watercolours in Windsor Castle, U. K. Nyilasi is a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Paris Montmartre Artists' Association, and the Danubian Artists Association of Slovakia. Currently he teaches at the Dundas Valley School of Art in addition to his activities as a practising artist.

 

Barnhouse Static

Indie folk duo Barnhouse Static owes its sound to the synergy that happens when a former punk-cowboy and a folk songwriter unite at the microphone. Peter Duffin was the drummer and founding member of Toronto punk-band "L'Etranger", the "Andrew Cash Band" and 3 time JUNO nominees "Grievous Angels". The Toronto raised Duffin played countless big stages across the country but met his musical counterpart singing folk songs in a small water-draft type club in a Niagara suburb. St. Catharine's native Kathy Evans is an accomplished singer and guitarist; still it is her infectious song writing that will leave you wanting more. Evans picturesque lyrics have a blue collar, hopeful and funny edge. Together, Duffin and Evans lay out a warm, gutsy, acoustic driven, accordion tainted sound all their own. "Hardly a person has not now heard the snarl of "Barnhouse static" on his home receiver. The radiations are affected by sunspots and variations in the ionosphere." -Kurt Vonnegut. Jr. "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"

 

 

 

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FEATURE ARTIST

 

 

Linda Kemp, CSPWC, OSA, SCA

 

 

July 1 ~ 30, 2009

Launch opening with artist in attendance
SATURDAY,  JULY 4
2~4pm
everyone welcome        refreshments served

 

 

Statement

There is nothing like an intriguing puzzle to get the brain working and few things more satisfying than finding a solution to a perplexing problem. So while some people take pleasure in working on the newspaper's daily crossword puzzle I can't resist sorting through and arranging shapes and colours. In particular, the interwoven forms and layers of patterns I find while investigating tangled woodlands, meandering streams, open fields, roadside ditches and marshes. Appreciating my discoveries is easy; figuring out how to interpret my finds and then portray that essence two-dimensionally with paint on paper is the real challenge! It is this desire to decipher, understand and organize what I see that motivates me to paint.

When it comes to solving perplexing brain-teaser and riddles sometimes it's necessary to approach the problem from a different angle, or think outside of the box, so to speak. In my attempt to understand how "it" all fits together and works I have learned to play a visual game in the search to unravel nature's elusive mysteries. My strategy relies on two things, simplifying the complicated and taking an alternative negative, or subtractive, approach



Bio

A full time artist, Linda Kemp frequently instructs and lectures at national symposiums and watercolour workshops throughout Canada, The United States and The United Kingdom. She was the recipient of the 2005 Woman of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture and in 2008 received the AJ Casson Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Watercolour, the top award for The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour national Juried Exhibition.

Linda is internationally recognized for her unique contemporary style and innovative use of negative painting. She is the author of Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines - A Positive Approach to Negative Painting (North Light pub.) and the accompanying video (Teaching Art Videos) by the same title. Her paintings and articles have been featured in 6 other books and numerous art publications including American Artist Magazine, Watercolor Magic and International Artist. Kemp is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Ontario Society of Artists and The Society of Canadian Artists and is an honorary member of the Society for all Artists (UK). This artist is profiled in Canadian Who's Who, Who's Who of Canadian Women, The Dictionary of International Biography, The 20th Anniversary Edition of Trivial Pursuit and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. Her award winning paintings are in private, public, and corporate collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, U.K. and the private collection of HRH The Prince of Wales.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 JUNE 1~30, 2009

Coalesce

new work by Amanda Burk

      
Launch opening with artist in attendance:

Sunday,  June 7

2~4pm

everyone welcome        refreshments served

 


Statement

Amanda Burk's studio practice is situated in drawing. Recently, she has been focusing on a body of work that captures the human subject in a moment away. This moment she has defined as a slip or departure from consciousness - a single instant where the subject loses an awareness of self and surroundings. Burk is fascinated by the very nature of this away moment, when the subject is neither absent nor present but suspended exactly in between the two.

Currently, as an extension and departure from this work, she is exploring a series of drawings on panel   contemplating pattern as a possible trigger or reflection of a meditative state.



Bio

Amanda Burk received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2003 and her Honours BA Fine Arts Specialization from the University of Waterloo, 2001. Burk's recent exhibitions include; Next 2009 (Chicago), Drawing 2009, John B. Aird Gallery (Toronto), Une Partie de 7, Gallerie St. Ambroise (Montreal), The Drawing Show, Peter Buckland Gallery (St. John), Drawing On, *new* Gallery (Toronto), and Draw In, 00130 Gallery (Helsinki).  Amanda is currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


 

 

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MAY 1-30 2009

 

Magdalena Titian

'ECSTACY IN THE GARDEN'


 ABOUT

Magdalena Titian is a regional artist who works in   watercolour to express her response to nature, finding its sensitivity and immediacy appealing to her own nature.
She masterfully controls the movement of this luminous and fluid medium, yet it's versatility frees her to convey quiet sensitivity or colourful passion into her new series of paintings that focus primarily on garden florals.

Magdalena's paintings are held in numerous collections and she is a well-known instructor both regionally and beyond. She has a long exhibition history, with selected works featured in many shows.
 

STATEMENT

  By studying nature first hand, my feelings are more intense and in tune and through the use of light, form, and colour, my attempt is to create enhanced imagery that one could miss if merely observing with the naked eye.
 
Paintings transcend us to a deeper level of experience and emotion and I feel there is no other significant reason for creating than to open a new awareness for both the painter and the viewer.

 

 

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