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janet bright / field 103w

  New Exhibits on view at The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford from June 16 to October 9, 2011 include: FIELD 103W :  Paintings by Janet Bright / FIELD 103W presents a study of landscape and memory, exploring theundisturbed expansive fields of vision, colour and silence of our Canadian prairies and coastline, and the effect memory …

mondrian

Two weeks ago at Centre Pompidou, I chose a favourite amongst the Mondrian pieces on display in the gallery. It was a ‘study’; a piece so contrary to how Mondrian’s final pieces usually appear, it couldn’t help but stand out in the crowd. The study …

broaden your horizons / in the news

  Broaden your Horizons BY JEAN KONDA-WITTE, ABBOTSFORD TIMES JANUARY 6, 2011 Artist Janet Bright is bringing her acrylic paintings to the Kariton Gallery show, Horizons, on from Jan. 7 to Feb. 2 in Abbotsford. An open house is Sunday.   Horizons, a mix of contemporary pottery and …

the sketchbook project

The Sketchbook Project is an international, collaborative art project where each participating artist fills every page of a Moleskine sketchbook in any medium, based on a chosen theme. I’ve begun my sketchbook with the selected theme, ‘Faces in the Crowd’; a theme with great figurative & …

st. norbert arts centre

Two days into a weeklong stay at St. Norbert Arts Centre, my computer crashed and pushed me into the pre-digital world of manual creation & record-keeping, slow observation and solitude.  Not a bad thing because I accomplished (most of) what I had set out to …

abstract. what now?

I’ve run up against a wall today because my current painting theories are being challenged by a painting that’s still under the brush. My Twitter post this morning said, “after so much talk about the need for ‘recognition of reality’ in art, this painting = …

support or stifling? / creativity at school

Is there support for creativity in today’s schools or is it stifled and labeled as self indulgent activity lacking in focus? Undoubtedly, both supporting and stifling of creativity are in action in today’s schools. The elementary environments I’ve encountered recently appear to have the task …

face painting memo realism memory

memorealism

Taking a page from the history of artist’s past, I’ve come to name my current style of painting. The name MemoRealism takes into account two important aspects of human experience that I believe are paramount in the creation of art that ellicits emotion, reaction and …

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