Welcome - William Prettie, Resident Artist 2016

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The AGL would like to introduce another of its newest Resident Artists to join us in 2016.

William Prettie has recently returned to London, Ontario after spending almost 7 years working at a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.

William was born in Southern Ontario and has lived and worked all across Canada. He has traveled all across North America and some of Europe, including an extended stay in the lovely city of Prague.

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This art is predominantly ideas based, and influenced

by sociological and philosophical ideas as much as the awe

engendered in the observation of nature. 

William takes seriously the rights and responsibilities

accorded to the designation ‘artist’, and so is constantly

pushing and challenging established boundaries in an attempt

to create each piece as a unique entity.

In William's own words:
All of these life experiences have contributed to my art practice over the decades and, of course, to the underlying understandings that have been built up. My understandings are not only intellectually attained, but also come from the fact of working physically, and especially from working with others who do the same.

See more of William's work

A Casting of Shadows - John Koyounian

October 6-31, 2015

Feeding Thoughts & Illusions

Opening Reception: 

Friday October 16, 7-9 pm

John is a graduate of the Fine Arts program at Fanshawe and holds an Honors Degree in Visual Art from Western as well as a Bachelor of Education. Currently John teaches visual art at Beal Secondary school in the Beal Art Program.

John explains his art in his own words:

The use of narrative has always been a large part of my creative process. Communicating ideas in a visual manner is a central component of my practice. Quite often themes and symbols are developed as a reaction to the stringing of words that can be found in not only my writing but also phrases gleaned from poets and various forms of popular culture.

Talk of the Town

We are all creatures of our experiences and observations. These experiences shape our world view and our concerns manifest themselves in our daily life and influence our perception of events. It is in moments of meditation that I find myself exploring those experiences in a visual manner. However there is a grey line between events and our perception of them. In the interior of our psyche we can at times infer events that conflict with our rational experiences and it is those projected thoughts that I am exploring. Not unlike the story of Plato’s Cave and the experiences of silhouettes that are casted shadows on a wall that represent the concrete world.

Iconoclast

The inclusion of contour lines plays with the idea that these projections are not truly there but are mere shadows. Their existence represents subconscious symbols which are a reaction, when projected upon our reality tell a different or new story.

Often times within these compositions the faces are hidden or intentionally cropped in order to develop a more universal experience for the viewer, this is done in order to allow the viewer to identify and see themselves or past experiences of their own within the work.

Welcome Melissa Tulloch - Resident Artist

We, at the Art Gallery of Lambeth, would like to welcome our newest addition to our Resident Artist family.  Melissa has come to us all the way from the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia.

Melissa was born in Toronto, and moved to the Lower Mainland of BC, settling in Richmond when she was five. Melissa became interested in art in high school where she was 

encouraged by her art teacher to pursue art as more than just a passing interest.


She loved art, loved talking about it, and loved learning about it. She talked often about what she was doing, and what she was learning about colours, hues, the techniques, and composition. Anyone could see her enthusiasm.


Her teacher was good for her, with his encouragement and teachings. When she graduated from high school, he helped her get a scholarship to Emily Carr University of Art & Design. 


When she graduated from Emily Carr, she traveled to parts of Europe. She was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. She spent time studying his work and even visited the Sistine Chapel in Italy to see his work first hand. 


She was inspired by other 'masters' of that time and genre as well, including Rembrant. She wanted to paint the way they did and with as much detail in her work as they did, especially with regards to the human body. She then carried the same passion for detail into the other aspects of her work.


She has painted with acrylics, and watercolours. 
She has even done tatoos for people on their body, one of which (believe it or not) is a rendering of 'The Last Supper' up the full side of a woman's body. But, by far, her favourite medium is oil. 


Melissa paints a wide range of subjects.  Her work includes birds, country scenes, landscapes, and seascapes.  But her love of painting and technical skill  is obvious in her portrayal of the human figure. Her works draw attention wherever they are shown.

When she looks at something that catches her eye, nothing escapes her.  Light and shadow, tone, and perspective;   she sees all of these things, and captures them on her canvas. 

"Pencil Crayons...Breaking Barriers and Mis-conceptions" -- Christine Johnson

May 5-30, 2015

Opening reception on Saturday May 9, 6-9 pm.

Always having a deep passion for art, Christine has developed and grown as an Artist in London over the last few years. Her works hangs in the Art Gallery of Lambeth, Westmount Art Centre and dozens of commissioned work hangs in homes in southwestern Ontario. Her work is widely displayed on line as "CJ Artwork" with thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram!

Her work shows her creativity and passion in her human portraits, endangered animal drawings, nature and spiritual works!

Using a unique perspective, angles and close-up images; she captures the overlooked and zoomed in intricate details of images in her work. Her one of kind iris eye portraits seem to grasp and convey a hidden universe or life within the individual eye. She brings awareness and love to the viewer with her variety of endangered animal pieces. Again, her technique of close-up detail expresses the animals’ strength and beauty in intricate details.

Using her medium of choice, the Pencil Crayon, she breaks the misconception and borders that pencil crayons are merely an amateur or an elementary medium that we all used when we were younger. As her skill develops, she consistently makes the viewer ponder and wow at the achievement of realism that is reached in her work. She also expresses a love for using ink, graphite, acrylic paint and charcoal in her work.

Expression in ones self in creating any piece of art is therapeutic, spiritual, fun and self-healing. Christine has begun sharing and teaches her mandala drawing classes at the AGL in a step-by-step class. As this is an art form that is very much unique to the individual, she teaches the basic, simple and relaxing pencil crayon tools and techniques so that any beginner artist can create their own beautiful mandala!"

Welcome Elaine (Laney) Richmond - Guest Artist

Dining Room

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.