The Terrace Art Gallery welcomes two new artists this month.
Terrace’s Joan Turecki is an acrylic painter whose life-like, detailed paintings are currently decorating the walls of the upper gallery. She has been painting for more than 30 years, capturing the way shadows and light move through nature in different locations throughout Haida Gwaii, the Mainland coast and throughout the Terrace area.
“I really enjoy painting either outdoors or indoors, and painting what I know,” says Turecki. “If I walk along a path, that’s what I want to paint, and capturing that particular moment is meaningful to me.”
She’s been working with the poets from Writers North of 54 on her ‘Shadows & Light’ exhibit throughout the past year. The group of poets drew their interpretations of Turecki’s paintings and accompanied each with a poem inspired by it.
In the lower gallery is Stephen Mann’s “Circles for Fibonacci”. The artist from Burns Lake incorporates mathematical formulas such as the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence to create geometric, creative patterns within his work. He’s been painting for the last four years, working exclusively with acrylic paints and texture gels to create the illusion of depth and structure.
“It doesn’t matter what you’re drawing, if it’s a portrait or anything — it’s all just shapes,” Mann says. “I’m inspired by geometry just because it’s something simple to deal with, rather than a human face which is very complex. I have a very different style from what most people are seeing.”
The two artists’ paintings will be displayed until Nov. 24.
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