Live Painting in the Gallery with Amelia Alcock-White

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With this solo exhibition, Amelia Alcock-White continues her campaign “Painting for Change” at the Petley Jones Gallery. At the reception on October 7th, Amelia will be painting live. The resulting painting will be sold by silent auction with all proceeds donated to Our Living Waters, a Canadian, non-profit network for groups who aid freshwater health in Canada.

Help yourself to complimentary wine and refreshments on Friday, October 7th as Amelia works on her painting in the gallery. If you can't make it to Friday's evening event, find her in the gallery on Saturday, October 15th. On Saturday there's no refreshments but an amazing opportunity to speak with the artist about her practice in a more intimate setting.

This new collection highlights the currency of water’s intrinsic value, presenting the concept of water as more than a mere material asset, Alcock-White renders perspective on decisions that trade pristine nature for economic gain.

Simultaneously abstract and hyperreal, the series features intricate compositions of the sea and freshwater lakes, vibrating with depth and motion. These images move beyond water’s material worth, a transcendence that depicts water as a vital ecological entity and a substance of sheer beauty.

David Suzuki Foundation: “What Amelia can express through art is really what is going to get us off the current unsustainable path humanity is on”.

World renowned painter, Bo Bartlett: “She paints water in a chromatic, reflective and emotional swirl. It’s not as much photorealistic as it is a metaphor for the totality of what is.”

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