FS: Original Oil Painting

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"Memories"
Frame: 21x18; Image: 16x12
Asking: $1200.00

Please e-mail, or telephone, for a jpeg image of the
painting. I will ship anywhere in the world at the buyer's expense.
(613) 591-8170 (Ottawa, Canada)

The artist is a farmer just outside the small town of
Rosetown, Saskatchewan. Her husband and their families have been
wheat growers since the early 1930s and are widely known throughout
the "bread basket" as quintessential prairie people. It is from this
background that the artist finds the passive solitude and gripping
impressionism of her art.

"Memories" is one of several paintings from her rare
collection of personal images. The careful use of lighting to deepen
the consciousness of the image lends itself to sharpening the
meaningfulness of her use of traditional methods of realism,
perspective and form. The balance and almost eerie use of colours is
her trademark and, as seen in this painting, they calculating serve to
impress on the viewer the contradictions of the Spartan, but warm and
cozy, uncertainty of the reflection contained in the scene.

Little known because of her intentional reclusion, the
artist's work is highly respected and sought. A number of her works
form part of the collections of the political and social elite of
Western Canada. Recently, her images have drawn recognition from both
artistic and cultural communities throughout Canada, but she remains
elusive and withdrawn.