RUPTURED LANDSCAPES at the Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener Ontario,  March 1st to April 28th, 2024

There will be an opening reception Saturday March 2nd, 2 - 5 p.m.   All are welcome!

A solo exhibition of oil paintings that explore the relationship between people and our fragile environment, a world threatened by systematic disintegration and devastation. Environmental concerns are a focus in my current practice. My paintings explore and speak to climate change, particularly on oceans and shorelines: the sea level is rising, waters are warming, storms are intensifying, lives and communities are at risk.  Conjured partly from memory, partly from photographs, the figures in the paintings uneasily inhabit places that are explored in the past and present, with a focus on their relationship to bodies of water. 

This body of work was funded by an Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant, for which I am most grateful. 

November has blown in some exciting changes for me, with my move to a beautiful new studio just last weekend! My studio is still in the wonderful Oakdene Centre in Bear River, but I have moved to a studio at the front of the building, a space with great light, big windows, high ceilings, and light hardwood floor, creating excellent conditions for painting. Needless to say, I am reveling in this beautiful space, and feeling quite inspired! (It also has great acoustics, which is a bonus, because I like to pull out my fiddle, mandolin and/or  concertina and play a few tunes during my painting breaks!) 

I will be opening my doors and holding a Studio Open House on Saturday, November 25th, and I invite you to drop by and check out my new studio and have a chat! The hours will be 9 until 5 p.m., and I will have recent paintings and prints (monotypes, screen prints, lithographs) on display. This will be both an exhibition of some of my recent work and a fundraiser, with all art sales donating  10% to the Oakdene Centre, which is a non-profit organization. The address is: 1913 Clementsvale Rd., Studio 5, Bear River. 

My Studio Open House coincides with an event happening in gym (the upper floor of the Oakdene), the annual Christmas Craft Sale, which runs from 10 until 4 p.m. All of the village of Bear River is taking part in Wintertide, https://www.facebook.com/events/708004424122219, with most shops and galleries open until 4 p.m. that day.

IMPRESSED: Marking the 20th anniversary of the Elephant Grass Printmakers Society, is a group show “Impressed”  featuring prints from the members of the EGPS collective (I have a monotype included) in the Chapel Gallery at ARTsPLACE in Annapolis Royal, N.S. for the month of November. https://www.arcac.ca/onnow_chapelgallery.html  The opening reception is tomorrow (Nov.  4th) from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.  

Come help us celebrate!

Hope to see you at one or both of these events!

Cheers,

Eva