Centre Wellington council chambers became a venue for abstract artwork recently with a showing of art by Nancy Farrell of the Harris Collective.
At the Feb. 11, committee of the whole session, Centre Wellington Mayor Joanne Ross-Zuj said she was delighted to welcome Farrell.
Farrell describes herself as an artist/sculptor.
“I started my art career late in life and graduated from the University of Guelph fine arts program in 1993.”
Nancy furthered her art studies through numerous workshops in Canada and the United States, studying with Peter Kolsnyk and John Leonard in Canada and Steve Aimone in the US.
Farrell thanked the Elora Arts Council and its program for art in public places which allows her to showcase her work.
Farrell’s work is abstract.
“I started out in realism … then moved into abstraction because I found it more interesting and compelling.”
She described some of her art “as way on the end of abstraction – described as non-objective – because there is no object which can be recognized. There is no person, place or thing in there.”
She said people ask themselves “So what is that about. I don’t see anything I recognize.”
Farrell said the focus is all about the colour, movement, mood and feeling.
“It requires more of the viewer, to spend some time with the work.”
Farrell’s work can be found in many collections in Europe, the US and Canada. She is currently a member of the Harris artists’ collective in Elora and the Whitestone Gallery Collective in Guelph. She has images published in “Alternative Kilns and Firing”, “100 Figures” and “Expressive Drawing” all published by Lark Books.
