Patrick International Fine Art in Mitchell ONTARIO is showing works by April Bending and Keith Morant in an exhibition entitled "Celebration". Although both April Bending and Keith Morant have promted their works for years via absolutearts.com's Portfolio programs, this is the first time they show their work side-by-side in a brick and mortar gallery setting.
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Artist: April Bending
Title: Lets Celebrate Together
Year: 2008
Medium: Acrylic Painting
Width: 24 inches
Height: 30 inches
April Bending comments about her work, "I paint from memory not photographs or real life. This allows me to filter out the non-essentials by abstracting reality and bending perceptions. Limiting the palette allows the viewer to focus on the image rather than be distracted by a myriad of colours; in much the same way a black and white photograph does. Because colours do evoke emotions, I use simple monochromatic schemes to set the mood of the paintings. Texture is important. It allows me to use the surface of the canvas to create ambiguities as images subtly appear through additional layers. These ambiguities encourage personal, often differing, interpretations. The effect of the black under painting can seem either serene and peaceful or somber and foreboding.
Even though one painting can be interpreted in many ways, those ways are limited to our communal experiences as part of the human condition." View more and purchase April Bendings works via absolutearts.com : www.absolutearts.com/aprilbending
"I have been painting now for over forty years and I believe such experience has given me an evolving advantage where sometimes-satisfactory conclusions may be reached," explains Keith Morant.
"It is my wish that my own work, while initially seen only by the eye, will also eventually be perceived by mind, and thus become conducive to some small expansion of human conscious awareness. For me, art is always an answer awaiting its question. However, every painting is a totally new experiment and I know that I will never live long enough to experience any form of ultimate satisfaction or so-called success. What small accomplishments I do experience must stay deep within myself in the knowledge that they may not necessarily communicate their fullest potential in my own lifetime. I must always work for the future in the hope that someday my understanding beyond knowledge will communicate whatever it is that nature is saying through me - the feelings of today are the thoughts of tomorrow." View and purchase work by Keith Morant via absoltuearts.com www.absolutearts.com/keithmorant/
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