Every winter for the past 7 years we have curated an exhibition that celebrates colour.  Continuing with the tradition, this year we have selected artworks that are saturated with glorious colour: dripped, swiped, stained, washed, or applied straight out of the tube.

Highlighted in the exhibition are new-to-the-gallery William Perehudoff paintings.  Using a wide palette and subtle nuanced grounds, Perehudoff was a master of communicating emotion through colour.  His search to create a “painting with a pulse” resulted in not just how we perceive each colour, but in the emotions that they provoke.

To compliment Perehudoff’s painterly abstracts we chose artworks that have a similar “charge”.  Through the use of contrasting electric colours (often pink, blue, yellow) the complimentary artworks use colour to convey specific feelings.  From the flash of sunlight in a dense Micheal Smith landscape to the warmth of the setting sun in Michael Pszczonak’s “House Plants Through The Sliding Window”, colour reins supreme here and offers a soothing reprieve in the winter months.