Sky Poetry | Erica Hawkes

Sky Poetry | Erica Hawkes
New Works | Nicole Allen

Exhibition Dates: April 13 - 27, 2024
Reception: Saturday, April 13 @ 3-5 pm
RSVP to opening: responses@wallspacegallery.ca

WALL SPACE GALLERY is proud to present Sky Poetry is the latest solo exhibition by British Columbia-based landscape painter Erica Hawkes (Kelowna, BC). Drawing inspiration from her surroundings in the picturesque region of Kelowna, Hawkes captures the ever-changing beauty of Canada’s Western landscape. Her vibrant colour palettes and sinuous curving lines deconstruct the blends of colour and form within the vistas around her. She has termed her approach to form and line ‘Nouveau-Seven’, stemming from her love of the Art Nouveau movement and the Group of Seven, particularly Lawren Harris.

Nicole Allen (Ottawa) explores flowers as an avenue of nonverbal communication, a willing exposure of intimate inner feeling. Allen’s canvases brim with life as she moves us through the rhythms of her innermost thoughts in jubilant and tender palettes. Her varied arrangements of flower species are often confined to vases or flourish to extend beyond the edges of the canvas’ boundaries. Their abundance becomes the meaning of the work – an overflow of feeling, or competing feelings.


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