Dandelion Presents
Landscape Interpretations Art Show and Sale featuring Bev Brenna, Bonnie Conly and Blanche Johnston
November 14th - December 1st
Dandelion Art Framing and Gallery ... where colour, light, and imagination meet. November 14th through December 1st you’re invited to the Landscape Interpretations Art Show and Sale featuring Bev Brenna, Bonnie Conly and Blanche Johnston. One show, three artists telling stories through a variety of media including watercolour, acrylic, and encaustic.
Meet Bonnie and Blanch November 14th, meet Bev November 21st, both receptions 11 till 2 at Dandelion Art Framing and Gallery ... 2207 First Avenue North.
Dandelion Presents
In Excelsis Deo Art Show and Sale Featuring Olivia Maney
December 5th-21st
Reception Dec 5th - 11-2pm
Contemplation is deep, loving and silent focus on the divine. It moves past the active thinking into simply rest in God‘s presence, and is an intimate way of communicating with the Lord through the reading of his word and meditation on it, through prayer and reflection.
The works in this Show, are products of reflections, meditations, and contemplations of the Scripture. I desire for my art, in the most mundane and at the greatest, to glorify God. The Scriptures are full of rich imagery, deep truths, and challenging examples. Far more than I would ever have time or ability to depict as I would like or as a deserve. But these are attempts, no matter how feeble to absorb this question and answer: What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy him forever.
The show encompasses a broad range of styles, media, and subject matter. Some works are literal like John the Baptist head on a platter, that reflects on the cost of speech: speaking, what is true and also the danger of carelessly making oaths. Some works are interpretive, serving to explain or uncover the deeper meaning of things, like the painting, “Foxes have Holes and Birds have Nests”. Some are more analogous or narrative, like works from a past Exhibition titled, What Lies Beneath”. Some are conceptual, like “The Physical Seed”, which is an introspection on 1stCorinthians 15, the resurrected body, the physical body as a seed sown and the spiritual body imperishable. Also, including is the series of new prints that encompass “The Thin Red Line”, “The Long Defeat” and “The Pilgrims Progress”. They are essentially long considerations of the concept of “the banality of goodness”, most famously articulated by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit when Gandolf explains the small everyday deeds of ordinary people that keep the darkness of bay.