Jane Appleby’s solo show at the Port Moody Arts Centre last February, titled Transitions Plein Air to Abstraction, became the thrust for her new art exhibit that opens next Friday at Place des Arts.
Her display at the Coquitlam facility, where she has taught visual arts since 2007, is called Lyrical Expressions and highlights 29 oil and acrylic “impressionistic” paintings of scenes she captured at and around her family’s cottage on Galiano Island as well as at various locations in the Lower Mainland.
The Burnaby resident, who is known for her plein air landscapes, started many of the works at public demonstrations (she was at Opus in North Vancouver last weekend) but finished the pieces at home.
“Some made it to the show, others didn’t,” she said. “It really depended where my inspiration went.”
At Galiano, Appleby said she enjoys the quiet to study her subjects that range from colourful skies to sandstone tides. There, she likes to paint the motion of the day and the details that follow.
It’s like a kind of song, she explains, and is the reason she named her new show Lyrical Expressions. “I think that my paintings set a mood with bright colours and express a melody that you can’t forget.”
Meanwhile, also opening at Place des Arts on Friday is a fibre art exhibit by Lesley Turner and Sarah McLaren called A Personal Response, in the Atrium Gallery, while, the same medium is also employed in a separate show in the Mezzanine Gallery by Burnaby artist Mardell Rampton, titled Balance.
• The opening reception for the three exhibits at Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) is on Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. Admission is free and the artists will be in attendance. Call 604-664-1636.
