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| Shelley Malcolm | | Her early years were spent in Hamilton, Ontario where her interest in art, and particularly painting, first emerged. She now resides in Woodstock, Ontario where she creates original framed abstract watercolour paintings in her home studio. Her medium is watercolour which she uses to create paintings that offer a unique blend of colour, design and transparency. Two phrases best describes her work: “it’s all about colour”, and “dare to be different”. The techniques she uses are somewhat unique in the medium of watercolour. Her paintings are a collection of brush strokes which connect to form objects, and often while painting, the images will change as if having a life of their own. Her wish is for the viewer to discover these images, to stir their own feelings in what they are seeing, and to experience them for the sheer joy and excitement of it. | | | | |
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| Denis Peterson | | Denis Peterson is a first generation NYC New Realist painter who is currently a leading figure in the burgeoning Hyperrealism movement. “By making something beautiful and hyperreal in appearance, I think he attempts to remind us that people suffering terribly are living, breathing, thinking, and feeling individuals in need of our attention and help (Chris Ashley, Look See)." “To witness genocide is to feel not only the chill of your own mortality, but the degradation of all humanity. Even the most brilliant photography cannot capture the landscape of genocide...This room is empty, though it is full of people. It has been emptied thus, not by the misfortune of disease or disaster, but by the hatred of other people (Fergal Keane, BBC)." “Maybe we need people who can remind us what being human is all about, its best and its worst. Denis Peterson may not want to be one of those people. But then he may not have a choice (Chris Rywalt, NYC Art)." “What makes it all the more unnerving is that this horrific subject matter is treated with a sophisticated, hyperrealist airbrush technique…and so exquisitely crafted that I initially took them for photographs (Robert Ayers, Art Info)." | | | | |
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