Bradley Keys: Zen Carving & Murray McDonnell: The Art of Our Necessities
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Willock & Sax Gallery 210 Bear Street PO Box 2469, Banff, Alberta T1L 1C2
Driven by a deep focus on their art and process as well as knowledge of their respective media, both artists followed their inspirations to produce sincere works that speak to the strength of design and the contemplation of still, perfect moments.
Bradley Keys’ work has always investigated the ways we know, take in, and are affected by our environment. Inspired by the elements of the world around him, he reconstructs these aspects through his chosen ceramic processes. With a subtle hand, Zen-like intensity, and a cherished carving tool, Keys offers vessels festooned with carved patterns based on Kumiko, a Japanese woodworking technique. His love of furniture-making comes alive later in the month, with works that speak to life in the prairies and mountains of Alberta.
Derived from his way of life, Murray McDonnell’s paintings express his need to move, be outside, to explore, to use his senses, and his need to create. For him, it is “not the image, nor the subject that is important, rather it is the need to make and share something with others in order to reflect that initial powerful internal visual experience.”
Explore nature through the artist’s acrylic surface landscape and urbanscape paintings.