The Minto Arts Council is hosting a new show called The Anthrocene Revisited, by artist Annemarie Rogalsky, which will be on display from Feb. 2 to March 2.
The exhibit examines nature that is accessible to everyone.
An opening reception will take place on Feb. 4 from 3 to 5pm at the Minto Arts Gallery in the Harriston library.
Rogalsky’s bucolic art works provide close-ups and still-lifes of nature and its creatures in the city or the bits of park land and wilderness within driving distance.
For her, painting is a way of reflecting on nature and how humans are part of it and interact with it to live.
Thus, she paints trees, and swamps with the living creatures and flowers that are out of sight and out of mind in the city. These detailed canvases are intimate pictures of what people are often too busy to see.
Rogalsky is a member of the Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists.
She was born in Volendam, Paraguay in a post-world war Mennonite community, immigrating to Canada in 1960.
After her children were born, Rogalsky undertook 12 years of part-time studies, graduating with an honours fine arts degree from the University of Waterloo in 2007.
For more information contact info@mintoartscouncil.ca or call 519-327-8529.
