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Indepth Arts News:
"Indelible Souls : Reid McLachlan and Becky Mason"
2009-08-05 until 2009-08-30
Cube Gallery
Ottawa, ON,
CA Canada
Rebecca Mason and Reid McLachlan have been working and living together for decades, both achieving recognition for their separate practices. However, this is the first time these artists have appeared together in a major duo show. Cube is proud to correct this surprising oversight with the exhibition "Indelible Souls". Indelible Souls showcases their startlingly diverse styles and subject matter and yet reveals how they are intrinsically bound by the passions they share.
In both of their work one finds the world of theatre is invoked. Reid's work remind the viewer of the action on stage, the characters and their props. Each one of his pieces seems to imply an entire narrative, stories of passion, love and loss. Becky seems to me more about the subtlety of the back stage. Her work is like the setting of the mood, the play of light on the backdrop. Her pieces are quiet and less apparent than the action on the stage, but look closer and they help to reveal the hidden magic that works almost subconsciously in the stories being told.
Completely different in approach and media, but joined in life, both painters create powerful images that, once seen, are impossible to erase ... INDELIBLE.
Rebecca Mason from Chelsea Quebec, has exhibited her work in Ontario and Quebec since 1988. She studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto where she first developed her unique painting style. Working on handcrafted sheets of Japanese paper, Mason takes inspiration from her natural surroundings with water, trees, canoes and mountains as the central themes. "Responding to my environment as an expressive colourist, I use nature as my inspiration. It is somewhat like writing a poem on the page using watercolour and brushes as the vehicle to capture my sense of place."
Reid McLachlan explores what it means to be human through faith, identity and mortality in his powerful figurative paintings. These large oil works focus on the artist's own personal ghosts, but they also speak to the hopes, worries and fears in all of us. No matter what your reaction you will not be left unmoved by the intensity and power of these images. "In my paintings I am exploring the universal themes of the human condition and searching for meaning, understanding and hope in our self-centred, material obsessed society."
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