Free Reception & Artist’s Talk – July 5 . 7:30 pm. All are Welcome.

Jane Adeney and Catherine Gibbon explore ideas around fire. Catherine Gibbon’s paintings and mixed media work focuses on fires as they are linked to environmental issues.

Jane Adeney, Faultline, 1999 Smoke-fired earthenware, porcelain, stone,
wood, lighting parts, findings

An early series of images of a 1990 tire fire in Ontario that lasted for 17 days addressed the artist’s concerns about pollution. A more recent series of images explore forest fires. Remarkable paintings vividly convey the horror of conflagration while the artist draws a context around the work that links pollution to climactic change, forcing a consideration of human impact on the environment. Jane Adeney, a sculptor whose primary medium is clay, depends upon fire as an integral part of her creative process. Using a smoke fired process that alters the surface of her work, Adeney’s abstract sculpture stands as an artefact of fire.

Catherine Gibbon, Nature’s Way, 2002 Oil on canvas

July 6 — September 16