Submitted - Both of this week's featured artists express themselves by creating portraits. Rickee-Lee Webster is a painter with a verve for clarity and detail and Max Himsl is a sculptor with an eye for photorealism.
Rickee-Lee Webster, as you may guess from her outlandish name, is a political refugee who fled from the despotic Alberta regime of the late King Ralph. Rickee-Lee's first portraits are from this repressive period as she recorded the images of so many friends and family that disappeared into the gulag tar-mines of Fort MacMurray. In fear and hope the family made a harrowing late night escape across the prairie in an overloaded SUV, feeling safe from pursuit only after reaching the free city of Weyburn. Rickee-Lee describes the liberation she felt here in her thick, nearly incomprehensible Calgary accent, accompanied by expressive hand gestures. Her husband Jeremy, a native Saskatchewitchian, translates as required. "Here" she says, arms waving, "people are so strange, so different, I want to capture them. The strange faces, the foreign atmosphere here is very attractive to me."
By contrast, Max Himsl makes his portraits in three dimensions but he too likes to use his friends as subject matter for is compositions. "A lot of people ask me if my medications are up to date but no, no, I'm mister natural," says Max "so naturally I have interesting friends. I like to go camping, pick wild mushrooms and herbs for stew and tea and usually after supper all my friends arrive. Fudo-doo-(whistle)-twip usually arrives first in his spaceship and then Minoona the Pentaped Ballerinna and all the others. I just recreate them from wood and metal intead of taking a picture 'cause it's so much easier."
Max will enjoy Art Farm 3 with a special escorted day pass. Please do not feed him meat as it makes him behave unpredictably.
Art Farm 3 - this crap will look good on your wall.
ArtFarm
June 13, 2015, 1-8pm
Admission - a toonie, 6 and under free!
South on highway 35, west on TWP080 south at white barn. Van rides will be available every hour from the mall.
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