Sheila Kernan is a Calgary-based artist whose meticulous mixed media compositions are crafted from multiple photographs and sketches.
Her series of paintings titled The Quiet Joy are love letters to the landscapes of Eastern Canada that hold deep significance for Kernan. Her family’s roots in the east stretch back generations.
Her works are based on landscapes from places like The 1000 Islands, Lake Ontario, Muskoka Region, Killarney Provincial Park, and Georgian Bay. The series repurposes or recombines more than 70 individual sketches and drawings from these areas.
Kernan’s technique combines applications
“Kernan’s boldly coloured and meticulously layered mixed media compositions often combine applications of flat acrylic surfaces and airbrushed accents with hand-cut stencil elements and richly textured oil impasto,” Bau-Xi says.
Kernan uses refined colours, layered washes, airbrush, stencilling, and textured techniques to capture subtle gradations and nuances of color, light, shadow, line, atmosphere and form.
Sheila Kernan at Bau-Xi gallery, where she is on exhibition through March 23, 2024, here
Sheila Kernan’s website, here.
Image at top of post: Time Stops, mixed media on canvas and panel, 36 x 48 in.
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