Diane Colwell & Kate Mountford: Landmarks

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Kate Mountford, "Follow the River (detail),"

1 / 5 archival pigment print, 19" x 12"

The Edge Gallery CANMORE is pleased to present "Landmarks" an exhibition featuring Diane Colwell and Kate Mountford.

Both of these artists re-imagine and re-configure landscape in their own ways, whether it be digital interventions, layering negatives or painting onto the surface of Polaroids, this exhibition is filled with familiar yet foreign imagery inspired by the Rocky Mountains.This show plays with geographical landmarks as well as gestural 'marks of the land' as these artists share their visions of alternative landscapes. These works capture the majesty of mountainscapes and being enveloped in deep forest while not being directly representational of the sites they were inspired by. The layered imagery will hook you in as you orient yourself within the constructed yet natural environments pictured in Diane and Kate's work.

Diane Colwell is a photographer, educator and lover of nature. This series of Diane's work takes the form analogue photographic processes that are layered, drawn in to and altered in some way. Recording the moment and the place as it seen through a lens, then using her hand to alter her impression and depiction of the place. In her own words "I investigate ways of understanding the world through different systems of visual response and interpretation along with concerns among disciplines of science, environmentalism and mountaineering (the containment and packaging of nature). My work explores and tries to reveal the affinities and common working processes that these disciplines may share in theory, research methodology and documentation. Through this research into their histories I seek relationships to my own experiences as an artist and a mountaineer."

Kate Mountford is known for her digitally painted landscapes and alternative approach to photography. Her unique process of documentation and building her images earned her a write up in Galleries West a couple of years ago:

 https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/paintless-paintings/.

In Kate's words "My works are created to explore the surreal, ephemeral and the unseen reality that lies just beyond our grasp. Our landscape provides an enormous scope for creation and interpretation. Within each element of the earth lies a suggestion of emotion and narrative. Multiple forms, striking colors and abstract compositions all collate to reveal the inexpressible contingency we have with our natural world. Wrapped within a landscape, our emotional and spiritual connections to a space cannot be realized within true reality. Surrealistic imagery is used to combine both actual and ephemeral relationships and observations within the world we experience."