Welcome Elaine (Laney) Richmond - Guest Artist

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Elaine (Laney) Honey Zwickel was born in St.Thomas where she attended art classes at a very young age at Alma College.  She moved and grew up in London, Ontario.  She was uniquely talented and studied art at Beal Art School, where she blossomed.  She credits much of her enthusiam to the incredible teachers there.

Elaine married and raised her children in a world where art was central.  She studied pottery and practiced for 7 years.  She also owned her own boutique, "Miscellaneous", where her creativity continued to flow.  Travel was also a huge part of her life and an inspiration for many of Laney's artworks.

Blue Lagoon

Laney's attention to detail and her ability to add several dimensions creates a whimsy that always takes your breath away.

In 2004, Laney went in for bi-lateral knee transplants.  Hours after surgery, while in the hospital she suffered a devasting stroke.  Laney was diagnosed with aphasia.  She could not write or speak.  Now, she can walk and talk, and paint!

Little Blues

Initally, post stroke, she had to be motivated to produce more artwork by her son.  Now in her 7th year of recovery, her attention to detail has surpasssed her pre stroke art. The difference in her painting style during these last seven years is quite profound.  Laney feels her need to do artwork is even stronger than it was before.

Welcome John Koyounian - Guest Artist

The AGL would like to welcome John Koyounian as one of our newest Guest Artists:

Details in the Fabric

For many years John has used the traditional method of the triptych to propel his narrative. Often grouping symbols that at times seem both ambiguous and mysterious in order to create a dialogue with the viewer.  These panels/symbols compete with each other and demand our attention simultaneously.  However, we cannot mentally internalize each symbol and or marking simultaneously and that is where the conflict begins.

Talk of the Town

He has recently moved to layering images physically over top of one another, sometimes this image is represented in a hard contour line and at other times developed as part of the negative space matching the tone of the original substrat.  The symbol exposes itself to the viewer, yet is silent in its presence. Not unlike Plato's Cave, they are names of things that we cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind.  The viewer makes inferences for things that are not truly there, we may acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects.  But we would be mistaken if we thought that the concepts that we grasp mentally were on the same level as the things we physically perceive in the material world.  The contour shapes of objects over the drawing or paintings are much like the things we do not speak of and carry within our person.  At times the silence of these shapes is based on suppressed feelings in order to protect ourselves for fear of reprisals from others.

John's Artist Statement:

My work focuses on the use of narrative elements to not only physically convey a concern/observation, but also to imply an intrusion of the viewer into private events.  The characters are cropped much like a fragment in time or like a frame in a movie.  Most often the characters are devoid of facial recognition to suggest a greater universal experience.

Days of Autumn

Feature Artist for September: Linda Rempel

Linda is definitively a portrait artist. She can capture the sense of a person with her pencils. She has a unique perception of the subject and can make that portrait come alive. 

Uncle George - Graphite on Smooth Bristol

Here is what has been happening with Linda this summer ….

While at a family reunion in June I spotted a great photo of my husband's uncle, whom I've never met - he died at 59; he would have been 95 this year. His face had such character that I had to put him to pencil ... I was surprised at how many family members I could see in his face as I worked on the drawing and I now feel as if I've had a 'visit' with him:))

Anna - Graphite on Smooth Bristol

This little charmer is the four-month-old daughter of a dear friend. Several years ago I started doing baby portraits of the 'new arrivals' in our church nursery. We hang them on the entrance wall in the nursery and then in a few months give them to the parents as the church family's gift to them. This little sweethearts' mum left our church family and moved away to the Netherlands to get married several years ago, and has happily started her family there;  I have already done a portrait of their first son a year or so ago and have now had the pleasure of doing one of their new little girl. This portrait will wing it’s way across the ocean this week. 

I’ve wanted to capture another big cat on paper for a while now and this fellow is coming along nicely. The drawing is not small  (16 x 20) and because of this is not very portable, so he gets attention when my basement studio isn’t too cool to work in this summer. I originally started it on white bristol but at the 4 hour mark decided that it may be better on coloured paper. I went with Stonehenge paper, which has a nice smooth surface but still plenty of tooth to hold layers of graphite and white pencil crayon. I started with a basic pencil sketch placing the main elements of the image and then work from upper left to lower right laying in the individual hairs and eye detail in graphite and coloured pencil.  I hope to have this completed by the end of the summer to add to the AGL.

Be sure to drop by the AGL this September to see Linda and her work in person.  She will be coming in to the gallery every Friday afternoon during the month.

Hope to see you there!!

Summer Sizzler - Best in Show

♫ La-dies & Gentle-men! ♫

The Art Gallery of Lambeth proudly presents: The Best of Show winner in our 2014 Summer Sizzler juried art show! Plus: A critique from Suzette Terry, who drove down to us from Meaford to jury our show!

To fully appreciate the accompanying montage, please check it out in 'full-screen' mode.

The show continues until this Saturday July 26, so do swing by and check out the many imaginative artworks. The Art Gallery of Lambeth is open this afternoon until 5:00. We are closed tomorrow, but will reopen on Friday from 1-5. On Saturday, the final day of the show, we are open from 11-4. We are located at 2454 Main Street in Lambeth.

On behalf of AGL curators Brenda Morris and Vivian Tserotas,

PhiLiP s. SchMidT
Member Artist • Art Gallery of Lambeth

Summer Sizzler - 3rd Honourable Mention

♫ La-dies & Gentle-men! ♫

Presenting our third and final Honourable Mention winner in our Art Gallery of Lambeth 2014 Summer Sizzler juried art show! And a bonus, to boot: An insightful critique courtesy of Suzette Terry, who braved a drive down from Meaford to Lambeth to jury our show!

To fully appreciate the accompanying montage, please check it out in 'full-screen' mode.

The show continues until July 26, so do swing by and check out the many imaginative artworks. The Art Gallery of Lambeth is located at 2454 Main Street in Lambeth.

Summer Sizzler - 2nd Honourable Mention

Preee-senting: Our second Honourable Mention winner in our Art Gallery of Lambeth 2014 Summer Sizzler juried art show! And once again: Some way-cool comments by none other than Suzette Terry, who drove all the way down from Meaford to Lambeth to jury our show!

To fully appreciate the accompanying montage, please check it out in 'full-screen' mode.

The show runs until July 26, so please drop in and check out the wonderfully diverse topflight artworks. The Art Gallery of Lambeth is located at 2454 Main Street in Lambeth.

Summer Sizzler - 1st Honourable Mention

Preee-senting: Our first Honourable Mention winner in our Art Gallery of Lambeth 2014 Summer Sizzler juried art show! And a bonus, to boot: Some way-cool comments by none other than Suzette Terry, who drove all the way down from Meaford to Lambeth to jury our show!

To fully appreciate the accompanying montage, please check it out in 'full-screen' mode.

Whoa Nelly! Guess who's jurying our Art Gallery of Lambeth 2014 Summer Sizzler show? The one, the only, the incomparable Suzette Terry, that's who! You are cordially invited to our opening reception this Friday night from 7-10 PM. Our distinguished juror will be presenting the awards! Our gallery is located at 2454 Main Street in Lambeth. Hope to see you there!

Artist of the Month - Colleen Rintoul

Colleen has been writing since childhood. In recent years she has rediscovered her passion for photography.  Colleen feels an affinity with the natural environment of woodlands and wildlife.  Her visual interests include landscapes, minimalism, abstracts and night images.  She often photographs urban environments late at night.

She strives to capture the essence of the world around her with the composition and emotional impact of words and images.  For Colleen, writing and photographic art are the creative result of the mingling of heart and mind.

     Train Station 3 a.m.

  In the foggy night

Beneath pools of light,

  A vacant bench waits

 amid echoes of the departed

Who have taken their leave

 on passing trains.

They move on in time and place

 as moments here and gone,

linger on, in the memory

 of those left behind.

                  By Colleen B. Rintoul

                                    copyright 2009