Three local artists are ‘converging’ their own perspectives and life experiences into one exhibition at Tillsonburg’s Station Arts Center by finding common ground through mixed media work.
Convergence, an exhibit of mixed media works by Irma Makariunaite, Heather Domke and Linda McDougall, will be on display at 41 Bridge St. West from July 29 to Aug. 26.
“The Station Arts Center is incredibly excited to be exhibiting the diverse and talented works of artists Irma Makariunaite, Heather Domke and Linda McDougall,” said Tabitha Verbuyst, Gallery Curator and Program/Community Co-ordinator at The Station.
“Each artist experiments and explores different mediums to portray their stories, using elaborate details, colors and textures to heighten the experience and emotion within each piece.”
The Convergence exhibit opens July 29. You can meet the artists at the official opening on Aug. 6 from 1 pm to 3 pm Station Arts Center is open Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 4 pm Admission is always free.
Makariunaite integrates photographic transfer and hand-painted paper with acrylic in her mixed media work. In this show, Makariunaite explores looking back in time when she first arrived in Canada as a young child. She addresses her reality as an immigrant by creating subtle layers of photographic transfers of letters she received from family members overseas, as well as collaging her own childhood drawings she created prior to emigrating.
Beginning with a collage background of antique papers and book pages, Domke uses acrylic inks, stamps, stencils, photographs and artifacts to weave visual mixed media statements of life.
“To me true art is the ability to see more,” said Domke in a media release, “demanding excellence in its many layers of expression. The expression of the artist’s inner soul.”
Following her creative instinct, McDougall experiments with the fused glass media to find new ways to express her deep emotional response to environmental climate changes, with particular reference to the disastrous wildfires that have raged out of control around the world.
McDougall has discovered the power of this media which is suited to her theme. She incorporates her background in screen printing process along with ‘techniques using glass powders, slurries in combination with enamels, frit powder wafers fired and used as inclusions, to create strong yet beautiful imagery to tell the story.’