This year’s Manitoba Regional Arts Exhibitions began last Thursday and is going on until August 30th.
There will also be a virtual launch this Wednesday at 7 p.m.
This year’s Manitoba Regional Art Exhibitions features 311 artists from Central, Eastman, Interlake, Northern, Parkland, and Westman areas of the province, but, unlike previous years, will be hosted entirely online.
This year’s Parkland artists include Jan Jenkins, Krissie Hlady, and Tim Greig from Dauphin, Bonnie Kasper and Terry Maxwell from Grandview, Jordyn Pascal from Fork River, Audrey J. Lute from Gilbert Plains, Suzanne May and Derryl May from Swan River, and Dale Graumann from McCreary.
One of Bonnie Kasper’s pieces, "The Old Barn” won first place in the drawing category in the Parkland Region Juried Art Show.
“I am very pleased and honoured to have my pieces chosen to go on to the next level The Manitoba Rural and Northern Art Show.”
The Old Barn was chosen for 1st place in the medium of “Drawing and Printmaking
Jan Jenkins from River West Artworks, and volunteer with Dauphin Art Group says this was the group’s first time doing the Parkland Region Juried Art Show virtually.
Jan has a few pieces in the exhibition. Her painting “Wild Roses” was made with acrylic and ink.
“Wild Roses is based on natural wild plants and flowers and things in Riding Mountain National Park.”
Wild Roses is a mixed media (acrylic and ink) 5x7” artwork
Dale Graumann’s piece called “Lily” won 1st place in the 3D Fabric category in the Parkland Regional Juried Art Show last month.
“I’m not using a pattern or anything I’m just cutting little pieces and sticking them on and moving them around like a jigsaw puzzle until I get depth and shading and things like that.”
Lily won 1st place in the 3D-3 Fabric category in the Parkland Regional Juried Art Show last month
Tim Grieg has three paintings in the show, and they all had different inspirations.
“There’s one called My Blue Bannatyne which is a city scene and I’d never painted something like that before so I took it as a challenge. Another one is a collage of elements from some movie scenes, that I did three of, but I just put one in the show.”
This painting by Tim Grieg was commissioned by a woman from Assiniboia, SK to commemorate her father.
Terry Maxwell’s painting “Jack Fish Creek” won first place in the oils category in the Parkland Region Juried Art Show.
“It’s from an area just on the north end of Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park.”
Terry Maxwell, Jack Fish Creek, Oil 24 x 36"
More pieces of art can be viewed here.
