Lake Nipissing occupies almost the entire canvas in Brigitte Coulombe’s paintings and in her personal life as well, she can never separate herself from it. With the lake as an inner presence, the artist reveals its effect on her in visual and written
works.
This exhibition presents four immense semi-abstract paintings, each one recalling a visit to the look-out point on Highway 17 between Sturgeon Falls and North Bay.
In these intimate meetings, the artist places herself inside the landscape, her eye tracing the curved line of the horizon. The results are vast, veiled, silent winter landscapes where the frozen lake blends with the sky, indistinct spaces parted by the horizon’s line, spaces of creamy yellow, powdery blue or metallic grey, as in the last light of a winter day over an expanse of ice.
The viewer needs to back away from the work to encompass its infinity.
Sponsor
This exhibition is sponsored by Radisson Hotel.
Brigitte Coulombe
Horizon lines, circumference of the earth, basins, hollows, the letter "u" open or closed, upright and / or inverted ... Here are as many curves or fragments of ellipses, circles or semicircles that take shape on the canvas surfaces. These curves cut out large masses of water or ice, earth and sky on the surface of the canvases. They define concave and convex spaces. Moreover, these curves or horizon lines are both elusive and affectionate. All the painted or semi-abstract works are also accompanied by poems which are an integral part of my approach.
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