October 2024

Déjà vu: One Show Closes and Another One Opens

Summary of October Events

 

 

There are many new and upcoming things this month. Celebrating Our Backyard ended August 31, 2024 and The City opens on September 14, 2024. I was accepted into the project-based studios of the Ortona Armoury, a breathtaking heritage building in Rossdale, Edmonton, Alberta. The project that I will be working on while in the studio is still a bit hush-hush as it ties to an amazing surprise and opportunity that will last over a year and is Edmonton-based.

 

Upcoming Events

Saturday, September 14, 2024: 1-3pm Opening Reception for The City hosted by the NOA Gallery

September 14 - October 02, 2024: The City

 

Recently Closed Exhibitions

Edmonton - The City

Edmonton - The City closed October 02, 2024 and my, what a exhibition it was. NOA Gallery and exhibiting artists outdid themselves for sure. Full of absolutely exquisite pieces.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Alberta Bound: Home of Sunshine and Stunnning Skies

 

October 05, 2024 - January 02, 2025

 

Gallery@501

Foyer Gallery

501 Festival Ave #120,

Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4X3

Hours: Sun/Mon: Closed
Tuesday: 12-8pm

Wednesday: 12-6pm

Thursday: 12-8pm

Friday: 12-6pm

Saturday: 12-4pm

 

New & Exciting!!!

There is a very exciting thing I will be announcing hopefully in two weeks. It has to do with a new body of work. I can barely contain myself in my excitement. October will probably be the first time there will be two newsletters sent out.

Newly Painted Works

Relaxation

 

 25% of all sales of relaxation, original and reproductions, will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross to support the Jasper fires and recuperation efforts as this painting features Horseshoe Lake just outside of Jasper, Alberta.

 

Horseshoe Lake, just outside of Jasper, Alberta. Called relaxation for personal memories of the first adventure with family, albeit, still socially distanced. The first time we got together since COVID. This shining beacon of fun, water, and nature remains a gemstone in my heart. Whether relaxation is solo, with your beloved dog, friends, family, or any combination of the above it is an incredibly centering part. In my mind this piece is also called Conservation as this is an example, like many others in our province, that need to be preserved both their natural elements as well as the faunal ones that call places like this their home.

 

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

38 x 63"

2024

 

Reproduction Sizes: Run of 88/each

Size 1: Paper Size 50 x 70cm (~11 5/8 x 19 5/8")
          Image Size 29.7 x 50cm (~19 5/8 x 27 1/2") 

Size 2: Gallery Wrap on Canvas 24 x 41.25"

Relaxation
Reproductions

The Elbow's Roving River

 

Painted on site at the Celebrating Our Backyards show at the ASA Gallery in Calgary. 

 

While doing an 84km bike ride of Calgary's beyond exquisite bike paths I explored many neighbourhoods and areas of the city, taking many photos. I was nearing the end of my ride and while I have many exceptional photos, including some that will hopefully be paintings in the future, none of them sang with the definitive "this is the one." I rode across a beautiful bridge and up a much too steep of hill for how tired I was (half my brakes broke and I forgot my food). Near Weaselhead North Glenmore Park I came across the most stunning view of the Elbow River meandering into what would also be astonishingly beautiful, the Glenmore Resevoir. I heard the internal scream I had been waiting for which was THIS IS IT! 

 

While it is currently in my Ortona Studio in Edmonton, I hope to find it a home in Calgary or area as I feel like my painting is homesick which is a weird thing to write (or think really). 

 

2024

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

34 x 60" (each panel) 

102" x 60" (total size)

 

Reproduction Sizes: Run of 88/each
Size 1: 8 x 14" (each panel )

24" x 42" (total size)

Size 2: 24 x 42" (each panel)

72" x 126" (total size)

The Elbow's Roving River
Reproductions

Share Your Experience

 

When I began the 2020 Skyscape Series it was due to my love of the prairie skyline and all the colour and drama that plays out everyday. I never could have imagined how that year would turn out. As the year went on my body of work started to take on it’s own narrative, meaning, and intent. As the year progressed and restrictions blurred our day to day lives together it became so important to capture the ever-changing envirment that surrounds us and that it is something that joins us all together. While we may have been in quarantine or have limited outings we could always look up and know that others are seeing the same thing. It became a symbol and reminder of all of the hope and optimism that comes with change. And now when we look back on the difficulties of 2020 we are reminded that the beauty and resilience of the world around us is equally reflected in ourselves.

 

 ​I had always planned on creating a book with all of the paintings included in it but it became equally important to continue the narrative change into my book and have community engagement. Now I want the book to be something to be cherished, an important anthropological documentation of our collective experience. Whether it is an experience that is good, bad, amazing, devastating, or an unexpected silver lining, they are all important experiences to be captured.

 

​My goal is that no matter where you are in life or what your background is that you can go through this book and there will be other stories that you identify with and ones that really resonate with. Like the skies, this book should help bring us together. Knowing that we aren’t alone and we all have shared experiences.

 

​Every story does need to connect with a date so everyone will need to give a date that their experience happened or a date that they identify that experience with.

 

​My hope to connect with as diverse of a group as I can and connect to every part of Alberta as I can.

 

Things to Consider

​- Stories from the year 2020

- Use your first name only (or you can choose anonymous)

- Include the city, town, village, reserve, settlement, homeland, treaty, etc.

- ALL stories are welcome whether they are good, bad, or bittersweet. Bad stories are equally as important as good, I promise you. In fact, they could potentially be healing for others that resonate with them that also went through similar situations.

- Use your first language: it is important to reflect how diverse we are and celebrate it. If you can write the English translation that is appreciated but if not I will hire a translator.

- If you cannot remember the exact date of your experience as close to it as possible is fine. If you know it happened sometime in August, please feel free to pick a date in August that resonates with you. If you know it happened in the first four months of the year, a date picked within that timeframe is great.

- Audio stories are accepted via my website (or through the gallery attendant): I will add them to the book for you and your audio story can be part of the multimedia portion of this project.

- It doesn’t have to be a story that is associated with COVID-19 even though the focus is that. Any story that is meaningful to you that happened during 2020 is valued.

 

Examples

July 24, 2020:

“For 4 months during the first wave my home’s guestroom was my office. It was never a room I spent much time in before, but for those 4 months it was the majority of my world day-in and day-out. Aside from lacking air-conditioning and being 5-10 degrees Celsius warmer than the outdoor temperature during summer, it served me well and kept me safe through MANY meltdowns, deadlines, conference calls, and virtual meetings.” I never dreamed that I would be sad to leave working from home - but packing up my makeshift command station, I felt sad - like moving out of an apartment or saying goodbye to a car. - Kim, Sherwood Park, Alberta

 

August 23, 2020:

“My grandpa passed away today and I won’t be able to travel to support my grandma or go to his funeral. This is the second death this year and not even related to COVID-19. A third one is to happen later in the year.”

- Misty, Edmonton, Alberta

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