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Local artist
Melinda Sheehan is one of a trio of painters showing their work
at the Saint John Arts Centre on December 3rd through January
20th. "There is always some movement," she said. "I
think that it's just the life force, the energy you feel and
the joythat it brings. When I do have time to paint, I like
to escape to the water, and its serenity." |
A trio of local
artists and art teachers will unveil their first group exhibition
at the Saint John Arts Centre, Dec. 3. As much as the three are
friends and peers, they each bring a deeply personal interpretation
of the show's theme and title, "Layers."
Far
from the dense cityscapes of the Big Apple, Melinda Sheehan's
paintings feature a scene more familiar to New Brunswickers: the
Saint John River and the ocean. Sheehan said she always paints waterscapes
with people or animals in the scene.
"There is always some movement," she said. "I think
that it's just the life force, the energy you feel and the joy that
it brings. When I do have time to paint, I like to escape to the
water, and its serenity."
For Sheehan, painting is a way to connect with time, but her glance
falls at least as much on the future as the past.
"The layers of generations are the layers in my work,"
she said, explaining that her canvases in the exhibition depict
the stages of life.
The final painting shows her husband some years from now, walking
by himself on a deserted beach. "It is peaceful but it is lonely
as well," Sheehan said. |
