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Peter Corbett’s En Plein Air Landscapes
There is a stained glass quality to Peter Corbett’s au plein air paintings. Corbett’s brushstrokes are applied quickly, carefully and evenly, like the cells of a honeycomb, but loaded with different colours. Each brushstroke remains distinct from its neighbour; each is applied spontaneously, but with the exactitude and care of experience; each is based upon technical skills acquired while studying how the impressionists painted.
Published ARTiculate Magazine, Fall/Winter 2007
What would happen if a couple of artists, a professional photographer and a scribe were let loose in Touchstones Museum’s permanent collection of artifacts to not only curate, design and create their own show, but record and lift the veil on the creative process for the exhibition’s viewers?
Published ARTiculate MagazineSpring/Summer 2007
Walking through Winlaw-based artist, Lou Lynn’s bronze and glass sculpture exhibition, Implements and Objects, at the Kootenay Art Gallery in Castlegar, recalls a child-like fascination with useful things. Some of it comes from the sheer size of Lynn’s visual fantasias, which dwarf the spectator. Some of it is admiration for the way she marries together disparate elements, textures and colour, the durability and warmth of bronze with the fragility and icy pallor of glass. Some of it is sheer wonderment at the feat of engineering it took, for example, to fix an hourglass-shaped glass handle into a narrow bronze double-ferrule.
