The always anticipated Gallery Members Show and Sale has opened for another year at the Humboldt and District Gallery. The show highlights the work of Gallery member artists in a wide variety of media. There are portraits, landscapes, abstracts, nature studies, photos, fabrics and many more creative treats for the eyes.
The exhibition opened last week with the members’ reception last Saturday, October 5.
Greeting art fans at the Gallery on Saturday was Dave Bauml from Lake Lenore. Dave’s nature treatments provided stunning interpretations of the natural prairies landscape and wildlife. His displayed works included a fawn with dappled highlights catching the feeling of light scattered through trees. Also, a more expansive piece that embraces the wildness around the perimeter of a garden shines, along with an incredible close-up treatment of brown eyed susans that takes on a remarkable shift in focus when viewed from a distance.
“The painting with the deer in the forest was a style I came up with on my own, like a mosaic,” Bauml says. “I tried a few and I liked them.”
Dave works primarily in oil given that it doesn’t dry quickly and there’s the option to change elements and colours and work them around.
Kayla Hanson’s work also attends to nature but with a vibrant combination of colour juxtaposed with subdued tones. Her crow images have a graphic edge to them that draws your eye from anywhere in the room. The linear effect is created by scraping the colours with a plastic card, she explains.
“I think a lot of artists will play around with what we have in front of us, so in this case, I used a credit card and just scraped it on to the background of my work. I even laid it down and just rubbed it and wanted to see what kind of shapes were coming out of it.”
Also on display was an eye-catching portrait of a pair of friends in a portrait with soft edges and curious and understated green hues, done by Lac Vert painter Peyton Leavitt.
There are many more beautiful pieces on display at the Gallery.
Paintings are for sale and the show continues until November 1.