We were recently asked that our next show include colour. The winter has been long, the snow relentless and gallery goers could use a bit of colour this spring! The Durham Art Gallery, a small contemporary rural art gallery, welcomes Breanne Jeethan’s solo exhibition The System is Broken.
A condensed conversation between past poet laureate Rebecca Diem and the newly announced poet laureate Jennifer Frankum.
Wesley Bates chose the road less taken. Working in one of printmaking’s oldest traditions, the Clifford-based artist’s career has spanned commercial design, print making and book illustration — ultimately translating rural landscapes and human stories through the visual language of wood engraving.
Most of us have a memory of an early encounter with a book, a sense perhaps, that the object we just unwrapped, or found amongst the stacks at the local library, or unearthed from a dusty shelf in our grandmother’s attic, might be an invitation to a place we’ve never been, let alone knew existed.
In the summertime when I was a child, in the late 1970’s, my parents would drive us up north to stay in a rented ancient farmhouse near a pine forest. The interior walls were exposed thick log cabin timbers. It was a very small house with one open room on the main floor, a small kitchen at the back and a narrow stairwell that led to our bedrooms upstairs.
When Rony Lec and Myriam Legault moved to their 100-acre property south of Desboro five years ago from Guatemala, they brought more than their young family. They brought traditional varieties of amaranth, corn, beans, and squash that represented decades of work preserving Mesoamerican food traditions.
When Elizabeth MacKenzie visited Neustadt one afternoon in 2018, she pressed her hands against the glass of the closed library, peering into darkness. “Crickets,” she recalls. The town was quiet and only a few stores were open. Yet something about the village, with its curve of road and historic buildings, whispered possibility.
Owen Sound artist Joanna Aplin explores the interplay of tension and release, often alternating between the emotional weight of figurative work and the freedom afforded by landscapes. Balancing detailed planning with intuitive play, she creates works that invite both artist and viewer to look deeper.
In the hills of eastern Grey County, something authentic is growing. A new collection of culinary entrepreneurs has created a dining scene that celebrates the area’s agricultural heritage and its evolving identity as a destination for authentic food experiences.
Artist Évelyne Richer is commited to letting her art speak for itself. The career abstract painter – and long-time resident of Grey County – begins each painting with a concept, but ultimately the painting decides what it wants to be. From there, it’s up to the viewer.