Shoreline Project
Artist: Beth Bennett
Title: Hot in the City, 2016
Medium: Acrylic and rice paper on canvas / Dimension: 30” x 30”
Statement: “My painting style is expressive with nature and the environment influencing me. “Hot in the City” was created during an intense heat wave in the summer. During that time, I was walking my dog very early to beat the stifling air. The sun was low, warming up quickly and presenting wonderful silhouettes. Returning home, I escaped to my basement studio where it was cool and painted what I felt and saw. “Hot in the City” is the result.”
Artist: Vanessa Cross-Lokos
Title: Rehearsing the Fall, 2019
Medium: Oil / Dimensions: 12” x 16”
Statement: “Recently I was involved in an art festival and painted alongside the dance company Frog in Hand as they performed. The group is depicted here during the rehearsal of a piece entitled The Fall. Dance has been a form of storytelling for centuries, an essential part of many diverse cultures around the globe.”
Artist: Briar Emonds,
Title: New Growth, 2017
Medium: Acrylic on canvas / Dimension: 36” x 36”
Statement: “New Growth is a piece from my Decaying Leaf series. Aimed at highlighting the idea that a life lived, with all its scars, wrinkles and holes, is more beautiful and interesting. That through the decay of old beliefs and ideals comes new growth.”
Artist: Donna Fratesi,
Title: Anticipation, 2012
Medium: Watercolour on Yupo paper / Dimension: 25 x 19
Statement: “Experimenting with different substrates was liberating. I love what I did. One of many roads I went down looking for myself. Ending up working in acrylic, I still miss the wonderment of watercolour.”
Current Artist: Kimberly Laspa
Title: Exclamation Point, 2019 abstract of vertical strokes
Medium: Acrylic / Dimension: 20”x 20”
Statement: “Most of my paintings come about by varying degrees of planning and some like this one just happen. It was all about mixing up my own colour hues. I had been having so much fun with the palette knife on another painting and began with simple strokes. After a while I stepped back and the name of the painting became apparent. I had a lot of fun creating Exclamation Point.”
Artist: Ulla Lenzen Butt
Title: Reviving My Awe, 2017
Medium: Water Colour / Dimension: 11" x 14"
Statement: “This painting's dramatic composition of a majestic tree with a resting hiker, foreground subject, was painted in jewel-toned glazes and multiple lush shades of calming green, to pay tribute to our precious environment and the vital role it plays in our world restoring and balancing nature's elements and that of our bodies, minds and souls.”
Artist: Dominique Prevost
Title: Rosaline in L.A., 2012
Medium: Watercolour, Crayons on Paper / Dimension: 36.5” x 52.75”
Statement: “Rosaline in L.A. is an homage to the late ceramic artist Roseline Delisle. Prompted by the AGB’s exhibition ‘Fire + Earth + Imagination’ I took inspiration from Roseline’s thrown porcelain Vessel # 16 and created a surreal perspective where her silouttes could hover. I used her aesthetics as a departure point and, knowing she had lived in Los Angeles, created a stylized space reminiscent of movie studios and drenched it with colours.”
Artist: Audrey Smith
Title: Tranquility, 2017
Medium: Acrylic and charcoal on wood panel / Dimension: 36” x 36”
Statement: “As a figurative artist, I usually paint either the head or head and body. Occasionally I will find that life/spirit is even more clearly depicted through objects that were part of an individual’s daily life, such as a well-worn pair of boots. In 2017, I worked from a body of photographs that I had taken. The model embodied a sense of composure and strength. Her expression wasn’t necessary - her hands, clothes, the position of her ankles - this told the story. The painting, Tranquility, bears this sense of peace with a strength found in surrender and with surrender despite strength.”
Artist: Lydia Swanson
Title: Dressed to Go, 2017
Medium: Mixed Media / Dimension: 16” x 20”
Statement: “My work focuses on the multiple layers of the complexity I observe around me. Each painting invites the observer to look closer beyond the dominant image through the layers of colour and impressions to reveal a deeper story. Family, friends, community, landscape and flowers are subjects that draw my attention. Multi-media allows me the freedom to use multiple transparent layers of collage materials that are relevant to the dominant image. Manipulating photographs, using stencils and acrylic glazes help to highlight or subdue parts of the painting. The process always takes time of personal meditation to make sure I capture the authentic stories I want to tell through my paintings.”
Artist: Linda VanWyk
Title: Garden Series, 2018/19
Medium: Mixed Media, textile and paper / Dimension: 1) 25.25"x6.75" 2) 24" x7" 3) 23.5" x7.5
Statement: “I express ideas using painted pieces of paper. I have studied and used various media over the years, but it is the art of collage that intrigues me the most. My creative process begins with painting the paper. My collage paper designs are prepared by direct painting with various types of paint and ink, applying printmaking techniques including carved stamp block printing, the use of stencils and drawing text and other forms. Various Japanese and other papers are painted to achieve multiple textures, tones, lines and patterns. When applying the paper to the painting support, I continuously explore how patterns relate to one another and how each piece of paper is organized on the painting surface to support my original color choices and design ideas. I am exploring the use of textiles in my collages as well as continuing the use of oil paint and cold wax in my non-objective paintings.”
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