Misericordia Show
Yesterday, 2012 July 7, I had the pleasure of setting up a major show of 43 of my paintings at the Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton.
Paintings laid out in the main hallway prior to hanging
The show includes paintings spanning my painting career of some 25 years. The first paintings encountered as one travels the hallway north of the main lobby is a group of seven paintings depicting the Canadian landscape. This group was inspired was inspired by a train trip I took a few years ago from Toronto to Edmonton, and particularly the rugged Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario.
Four paintings in the northern Canadian Landscape group
After passing through this group of paintings, a turn to the left takes one into the hallway that contains 36 of my paintings – landscapes, abstracts and some in between. First, on the right, are 3 landscape paintings going back to the 1980’s. There is a landscape of the the Auvergne region of France and couple of Alberta landscapes (done in very different styles).
“Woods in Spring” and “Auvergne Landscape”
Next on the right are a group of five paintings of the Alberta prairies from the last 4 years.
“Prairie Gold” and “Canola Fields I”
The Prairies give way to the mountains with a eight paintings (some quite abstracted) from 2009/10 depicting scenes of, from and in the Canadian Rockies.
“Banff Evening Solitude” and “Mountains Over Vermillion River” from the Mountains group
At the end of the long hallway, one turns around and returns, seeing a few more of the mountain group and then a selection of ten paintings from my Earth Light Tapestries series. This series of 24 highly textured acrylic paintings was created on 2006/7 and 14 of them were exhibited at Edmonton’s Milner Library gallery in the fall of 2009. Seeing 10 of these 24 by 24 inch (61×61 cm) works in a row is quite impressive.
“Earth Light Tapestry XIX” and “Earth Light Tapestry XV “
Next are 5 paintings of an abstract nature including 1 that was inspired by an early morning train arrival into Vancouver and two from a scene on Beddis Beach on Salt Spring Island on a foggy November morning in 2007.
“Always Waiting” and “Park Nocturne I”
Back at the start of the long hallway the show ends with a few of my most recent canvases.
“Dark Treeline ” and “Path 2011”
This show runs through to August 17th on the main floor (look for the Day Ward hallway) at the Misericordia Hospital in west Edmonton [map]. The works are for sale during the show – contact the Misericordia Volunteer office (780-735-2754) for more information.
Randall Talbot - Artist 