LAND ON FIRE

SOLO EXHIBITION by MARY LYNNE ATKINSON

NOVEMBER 2017

EXHIBITION DATES: November 2 to November 25, 2017

ARTIST STATEMENT

Land on Fire is inspired by the landscapes of Morocco -waves as patterns in time and space.
 Formations that look like ocean waves in their immensity, silence and immutability draw me in. My paintings are rooted in the ‘tangible' of the physical world. They are also inspired by questions surrounding our human relationship to Earth. My challenge as an artist is to draw the connections between both the tangible and the intangible.

By moving into a landscape through colour and gesture, painting becomes a meditation on space expanding and time evolving. The vast, silent, unforgiving spaces challenge me to express my ideas and emotions of timelessness. Each painting has its own silence.

“Painting is about rendering the invisible.” Elizabeth Grosz

BIO

Mary Lynne Atkinson is a mid-career visual artist living in Midhurst, Ontario. Atkinson holds a B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University and a graduate diploma in Studio Process Advancement from the Haliburton School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, notably in the Carousel du Louvre, Paris, 2012 and 2013. She was awarded a Bronze Medal, Paris, June 2014, by the Societé des Arts, Lettres, Sciences. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous curated shows including the Miami Art Basel and S Space Gallery, New York, NY.  Atkinson continues to exhibit extensively in Ontario, and her paintings are collected nationally and internationally.

Mary-Lynne was also in a duo show INTO THE WOODS with artist Pauline Bradshaw

Images from LAND ON FIRE by Mary Lynne Atkinson/click on image to proceed to next image