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B A R B A R A P R A T T
After 2 years since her last show at Trinity Galleries, we were pleased to present Barbara's latest paintings on June 18th... They are stunning...
Heres what Barbara told us about what inspired these paintings:
"This exhibition was inspired by Mrs. Sheila Gushue's garden. While I have to admit that each and every one of these flowers is not actually from her garden, they very well could be. Her flowers are beautiful and she takes great joy in them. Her garden is over grown now, and full of crazy life. Her flowers have gone mad with their freedom from regular maintenance. No longer able to do the hard work that's involved with a big garden she now wanders among her tall peonies smiling at their sunny beauty. There are iris and roses, spiderworts and hostas under the shade of large maples.
I love flowers, as many people do. I love their fragility and their very temporary existence. They are loaded with emotion and memory. We give them as gifts, we pick them to adorn our tables, and we grow them to see them bloom with the arrival of spring. Painting them, for me, is like honoring them. Painting them comes from a desire to keep them and try to make something as beautiful with my own hand that nature made on its own…with a little help from Mrs.Gushue.
I find inspiration from many places, such as paint chips at hardware stores and color-coded files at the doctor's office. Good music makes me want to paint and, of course, I would be nowhere without my female friends who inspire me daily."
Check out her artist page to view her latest paintings.
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Friday, August 13th
..GALLERY HOP..
A N G E L A M O R G A N
Angela Morgan lives and works in Fernie, B.C. Canada with her husband Brendan and 4 children. The completion of her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Aprsdfgil of 2000 ended a lengthy stretch of university education. Angela attended Bismarck State College in North Dakota, Concordia University in Montreal, University of Regina, and the University of Calgary.
Angela Morgan's work celebrates humanity through the use of colour, pattern, and line. Her human figures express the poses of life, the jubilation of dance, the contemplation of parenthood, and the melancholy of summer's end. Colours fuse and meld to achieve gesture; transforming abstract images into living moments.
A M Y A S H
Amy Ash graduated with a BFA from Mount Allison University in 2004, and promptly thereafter moved to southern Japan. She spent three years teaching (with intermittent bursts of travel), and four months traveling back. Currently living in Fredericton completing her Bachelor of Education. In her spare time she teaches throughout District 6.
"The coarse and heavy materials that I choose to work with, the frenzy of the surface ground and the juxtaposition of line and texture (or in some cases pattern) function at once to set the focus on the figure and present the mayhem out of which the visual story grows. I treat each piece as completely individual and work it intuitively adding stitching, recycled fabrics and beading, allowing my materials to guide me to a final product. Each additional element adding an enchantment or sub-story to the one I am already telling."
A M Y D R Y E R
Amy Dryer is a full-time painter who creates in a space of canvas, brushes, music and splatter. Her background is varied. She attended the Alberta College of Art,the Glascow School of Art in Scotland and finished her BFA at Mt. Allison University, Sackville, NB.
Amy upholds the belief "That the greatest art asprires to the state of music". Like music, Amy's paintings convery spontaneity, immediacy, movement, and quiet reflection. Dryer loves to wear red and paint her visual voice. |
