June 4 - September 24 2017These pieces will be in the Tending the Wallflower exhibition
Orchid 10x8 inches Acrylic on canvas 2016
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Odd Little Power Tripper
mixed media on canvas
28x22 inches
2008
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Title: 1976-2016
Medium: acrylic on canvas with organza transfer
Size: 34 x 36 inches or 86.4 cm x 91.4 cm
Given that IRIS at 20 is a looking back, I chose to do a piece that embodies the passage of time, for me personally and that of the group. I resurrected a 30+ year old painting that I had made as a gift for my in-laws, and as lives pass and things return, it has been stored in my house for several years. It's a snow scene, one of my very early efforts, based on a photo sent from Australia of a shed on an outback sheep station. Transplanted onto a Canadian snow scene, it spoke to me of the fond memories and dear friends in Oz, and our return to Canadian winter.
The little girl is from my RMG exhibition Closeups, a child somewhat contemporary to Jane when she would have found the bell.
And the bell itself is one of our artifacts donated by Jane at an IWD celebration. Her story:
This old brass bell goes back a long time – over 75 years, to when I was a small child. At that time my favourite thing to do was to go walking in the country with my father. . . . It was a sunny day in winter and I remember that there was lots of snow on the ground. We noticed something shining in the snow. It was this bell which must have fallen off the harness of a horse as he was pulling a sled. . . . It reminds me of happy times and of my Dad who was very dear to me (Jane Dixon, Oshawa 2010).
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RMG A SPACE 2016
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