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<\/a>Installation view of Sandra Gregson, troubling<\/em>, September 2017, loop Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and loop Gallery<\/p>\nDuring the summer of 2016 Gregson participated in a Parks Canada residency at Mount Revelstoke in British Columbia. As she wrote, \u201cThe physical landscape offered magnificent views; my beliefs and knowledge presented others. I began representing land from different viewpoints: observational, aerial, mapped, details, perspective, fragments, historical, in an attempt to embrace what I was seeing with what I was noticing and researching about environmental concerns.\u201d Gregson\u2019 paintings depict the land that no longer wild but heavily modified and changed by human needs, making it fertile (grid, 2017) but in other times depleted (land divide, 2016). The artist’s use of colour reflects those changes in nature, such as vibrant beautiful blues of summers skies, and blues that are dirty and darkened turning into black, fresh greens of growing plants, golden browns of autumn and dried up browns of used up lands.<\/p>\n
Dinsmore\u2019s works are located towards the back of loop Gallery and as we walk further into the place we see less and less of wood as she gives less emphasis to the wood panel in her paintings. Her procedure begins with acrylic paint on wood, and progresses to mix mediums (possibly incorporating plaster) on wood. Like Gregson, Dinsmore draws inspiration from nature, as she paints in Georgian Bay. Some of her pieces are representative of water, while others depict rocks, following nature\u2019s procedure; when the water clears from a lake or small pond, what\u2019s left behind is the bedrock.<\/p>\n Installation view of Carolyn Dinsmore, Rock Water Time<\/em>, loop, September 2017<\/p>\n Dinsmore\u2019s paintings are close-ups, reminding us of a camera zooming closer and closer to its subject until the image becomes almost abstract, just recognizable. The water surfaces, caught in motion, are dark, leaving us guessing what mind be under the surface. Her works that inspired by rocks are hard, rough surfaces, resulting from years in formation, surfaces carved, scarred, polished, and lichened.<\/p>\n<\/a>Sandra Gregson, grid, 2017, oil on wood panel, 15 x 15 cm.\u00a0Courtesy of the artist and loop Gallery<\/p>\n<\/a>Sandra Gregson, spin, 2017, oil on wood panel 20 x 20 cm.\u00a0Courtesy of the artist and loop Gallery<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Carolyn Dinsmore, As of September 16, 2016, 2017, mixed media on wood, 20\u201d x 18\u201d. Courtesy of loop Gallery<\/p>\n