Bill Laing, RCA: Bill Laing’s meticulous paintings and prints deal with textures and patterns found in landscape and in the domestic environments. The works are lush and captivating as layers of visual elements seemingly hover over each other in translucent and iridescent glazes. William J. Laing was born in Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1960. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art then at Brighton Polytechnic in England and then received his Masters Degree from the Royal College of Art in London, England in 1974. From 1974 to 1977, Laing was an instructor in Printmaking, Photography, and Design at the Alberta College of Art. In 1977, he became a faculty member at the University of Calgary, where he is currently Full Professor and engaged as head of the Printmaking Department. Laing's dedication to his profession gained him the University of Calgary's Student Union Teaching Excellence Award in 1992/93 and in 2003/2004. He has exhibited in over 500 group shows and 48 solo shows across Canada and around the world, is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.), an elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers (London, England), and received the Order of The University of Calgary in 2006.
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Siobhan Humston: this body of work comes as a gathering of ideas surrounding the process of painting and the building of a finished piece. it involves an aesthetic balance between positive & negative space, depth of colour & white; between drawing with graphite & painting with acrylic; between gravity & floating, motion & stillness, place & infinity. they are literally a combination of my recent more minimal white series ‘stone/flora’ and the past colour and shape saturated work. mentally they feel like arriving; emotionally they translate as organic explorations of my love of colour; aesthetically, they are a gathering of symbols and markings culled from years of translating what i see, feel and value about the world around me. clarity of thought was required to make these pieces but there is also a certain physicality in the turning, lifting, wiping, moving the paint and the wood itself. these factors communing with a meditative awareness of watching the images grow landed me in a new mindset with my painting practice. the spreading white space in each piece speaks of a growing, morphing hope or of a private space being engulfed by a colour field of thought. they are half about place and half about the journey to that place. |
The Landscape Show The Landscape Show - works by Renee Duvall, Dennis Ekstedt, Ben van Netten, David Burdeny & Pat Pennell
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