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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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