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Kate McConnell: Capturing Color in the Landscape

November 3, 2016 Touchstone Gallery
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How does the artist paint the landscape while, at the same time, paint from the “deeps” of the soul?  Painter Emily Carr posed that question to herself as she painted alone in the forests of British Columbia sometime in the 1930’s. “What do I want to express? ... The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things,” she writes in her journal.

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Pete McCutchen Wins Honorable Mention in the Monochrome Awards International Black & White Photography Contest, 2/2015

March 6, 2015 Touchstone Gallery
Pete McCutchen

Pete McCutchen

Winning an Honorable Mention in the Monochrome Awards means a lot. I began photographing at eleven years of age, and like most of my generation I started in the black and white darkroom. (No iPhones back then.)   I did black and white almost exclusively for years.  With the advent of digital technology, I began exploring color.  The tools of digital editing allow for precise control that isn't possible in the color darkroom and inkjet printer have a color gamut and archival qualities that far exceed any chromogenic process.

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Aina Nergaard-Nammack: The Language of Music and Color

May 30, 2013 Touchstone Gallery
Aina in studio

Aina in studio

A child of a Norwegian father and a Spanish mother, Aina spent her early years toggling between school in the frigid north to hot summers in the heart of Spain -- a life that was bound to teach her many languages. Five to be exact. Add to that sum Aina's study of various "languages" in the visual arts. First with her mother on painting excursions to the "White Villages" in the south of Spain, practicing in her mother's studio in Seville, and then being instructed formally in art school where she was required to copy the Old Masters, including Velasquez, Vermeer and Goya.

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