Eila Duncalfe

Northern Inspirations

Growing up on the farm near Winnipegosis, my days were spent roaming the countryside and splashing around the shores of Lake Winnipegosis. I then spent a short period of time living the city life in Winnipeg, before moving up North to Flin Flon, where I was immersed in the wildness of Canada’s Boreal Forest. It is this landscape that inspires my paintings, along with a lifetime of memories. Art has provided me with an opportunity to place my love of the North on a canvas for others to enjoy and there is no lack of imagination with Mother Nature being at my side.

Kristy Janvier

Weight we Carry

This is an interdisciplinary work made during my Rural Arts Mentorship with Lita Fontaine (2022) from ideas I have carried since 2018.

I have chosen rocks for my performance’s artifact. Images of being weighed down by the rock, balancing the weight, carrying the rock(s) becomes the symbolic representation of motherhood. We carry our babies on our breast, our backs. Balancing it all in our day-to-day existence.

The landscape of my hometown of Flin Flon, MB is where the Canadian Shield and Boreal Forest meet. As I continue to contemplate the healing aspect as in my previous work, I am exploring how we carry so much while gracefully dancing through the transition to motherhood.

Dustin Glaseman

Natural Connection

In an age of social media sovereigns, the natural order of things has been subverted. The wild spaces we once held in reverence are now measured in likes rather than resplendence. My works seeks to reclaim nature’s rightful place within our hearts through algorithmic assimilation. Using close-up wildlife photography printed on canvas, my exhibition will incorporate social media posting preferences, via animal portraits and profiles, to facilitate a unification of the natural and artificial—a sort of natural connection via electronic deception. By capturing wildlife in a manner that mimics online human interaction, I pose the question: if mother nature had a selfie stick, would we love her more?

Brandi Fullerton

The Cure of Anything

Born and raised in Swan River, Brandi Fullerton is self-taught artist and designer. She has worked in pen and ink, pencil, and watercolour, and since 2019 has been experimenting with encaustic painting.

Inspired by the possibilities of translating images into wax, Brandi is excited for a lifetime of artistic exploration. Her current focus is on images of the surrounding landscape, a challenge given the abstract nature encaustic painting.

She works from her home gallery-studio and has a small following on Facebook at Waxing Poetic.