It’s nothing but clear skies for the new exhibition titled Breathing Room on view until June 19 at Vernon’s Headbones Gallery.
From Regina, Donna Kriekle wisps eloquently with 26 sky paintings on canvas.
Featured in The Picture Gallery, which is a long space, Kriekle’s sky paintings set the mood for springtime.
“With the optimism of the subject matter elevating the gamut of the skyway, lyrics come to mind that raise the spirits like the budding breath of a brand new day – ‘nothing but clear skies…,’” said Headbones owner Julie Oakes.
In turn, candy-coated bunnies are falling from the sky in the Drawers Gallery with oil paintings by Winnipeg native Robert Farmer.
Farmer’s tongue-in-cheek “splatstick” resonates with the nostalgia of a less complicated era fallen prey to the havocs of chaos, said Oakes.
“His detailed renderings and technical virtuosity bring a world with a foot in childhood into the more complicated realms of gaming and advertising media.”
Visitors to Headbones can also breathe in 19 individual miniature paintings by Toronto artist Daniel Hanequand, which are hung salon style in a three-foot square space in The Paper Gallery.
“Their mini-counterparts form couplets, trios and rows of under-hand-sized, sci-fi, surreal, and sometimes haunting little pictures,” said Oakes.
The opening reception for Breathing Room is Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., and the gallery’s regular hours are Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Headbones is located at 6700 Old Kamloops Rd. Phone 250-542-8987 or visit www.headbonesgallery.com.
