IRIS MEMBER NEWS
These paintings were created last year while I was working in Cairo - an experience that continues to transform and shift my perceptions and ideas of home. Living six years in the Middle East has raised many questions such as - Where is home? What is home? What does one need to create a home? And perhaps most compelling, Is home still important after family has been raised, partners have been loved and lost and now, am on my own?
Like a conspicuous black crow, I've collected and consumed everything I've seen, heard, tasted, smelt and felt in this land - from my morning walks, readings, Youtube explorations, interactions with students, with others, to listening to fabulous jazz and overnight CBC radio programs. This cacophony of experience is reimagined as painted imagines, not as a representation of, or an illusion to, but as the vital and living connections between objects, places, animals, landforms, people, weather, memories, dreams as well as a myraid of cultural and religious practices that enrich, nurture and expand my being.
The opening on July 2nd (from 6 - 10pm) is part of the monthly Art Crawl (the first Friday of every month) in Peterborough - home to so many exceptional musicians, poets, playwrights, actors, dancers and artists! It is an evening when artist's open their downtown studios and downtown restaurants prepare to host their guests.
Please see Atelier Ludmila's website for covid protocols. If you feel concerned about attending the opening but would still like to see the work, please contact Laurel or myself and we will be thrilled to give you a private showing! See the invitation below for contact information. If you live far away and can't attend in person, please visit my soon to be updated website!
warmest regards,
Judith A. Mason
Like a conspicuous black crow, I've collected and consumed everything I've seen, heard, tasted, smelt and felt in this land - from my morning walks, readings, Youtube explorations, interactions with students, with others, to listening to fabulous jazz and overnight CBC radio programs. This cacophony of experience is reimagined as painted imagines, not as a representation of, or an illusion to, but as the vital and living connections between objects, places, animals, landforms, people, weather, memories, dreams as well as a myraid of cultural and religious practices that enrich, nurture and expand my being.
The opening on July 2nd (from 6 - 10pm) is part of the monthly Art Crawl (the first Friday of every month) in Peterborough - home to so many exceptional musicians, poets, playwrights, actors, dancers and artists! It is an evening when artist's open their downtown studios and downtown restaurants prepare to host their guests.
Please see Atelier Ludmila's website for covid protocols. If you feel concerned about attending the opening but would still like to see the work, please contact Laurel or myself and we will be thrilled to give you a private showing! See the invitation below for contact information. If you live far away and can't attend in person, please visit my soon to be updated website!
warmest regards,
Judith A. Mason
Katie Rodgers interviews Margaret and Wendy on Instagram
ZOOM exhibition opened on Thursday June 25 at 7 p.m.
Our Own Sense of Place
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The exhibition highlighted a diversity of direction in exploring the interconnections of the environment, people and architecture, connecting to our sense of being and place. Our "Room of One's Own" proves at present to be our website where our extensive history is documented.
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MEMBERS
Laura M. Hair lmh.art@rogers.com
Judith A. Mason judithamason@gmail.com
Janice Taylor-Prebble byngstudiogallery@gmail.com
Mary Ellen McQuay memcquay@sympatico.ca
Margaret Rodgers mrodgers@rogers.com
Sally Thurlow sallythurlow1@gmail.com
Wendy Wallace wendy_wallace@icloud.com
Laura M. Hair lmh.art@rogers.com
Judith A. Mason judithamason@gmail.com
Janice Taylor-Prebble byngstudiogallery@gmail.com
Mary Ellen McQuay memcquay@sympatico.ca
Margaret Rodgers mrodgers@rogers.com
Sally Thurlow sallythurlow1@gmail.com
Wendy Wallace wendy_wallace@icloud.com