New St. Marys art exhibit brings northern feel to southern Ontario – London | 24CA News
A brand new exhibit at a St. Marys, Ont., artwork gallery is bringing the feels of Northern Ontario to the south.
St. Marys Station Gallery’s newest exhibit, “Northern Journey,” options artworks by artist Lionel Venne.
Venne, born in 1936, is from Elk Lake, a small city in Northern Ontario.
He started portray at age 17 and is untrained, “which is what makes his work absolutely sensational, because he’s not inhibited by any academic art school training,” stated gallery curator Cameron Porteous.
The exhibit options round 20 items of Venne’s artworks, which embrace work, sculptures and some tapestries, together with one known as “Northern Journey” made particularly for this exhibit.
“(Venne’s) work has a strong Northern Ontario feel about it,” Porteous stated. “He responds to the landscapes and the environment (but) he doesn’t want to do it naturalistically, so his work is mostly abstract.”
“He’s doing work that nobody in this area does. It’s completely unique to the type of work that we see down here in this part of Ontario,” the curator continued.
The exhibit runs from July 14 to Aug. 26.
— with recordsdata from 980 CFPL’s Marshall Healey
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