Algonquin Artist in Residency

Algonquin Provincial Park 2019

I was fortunate enough to recently be selected for a week long residency in Algonquin Park.

The Park that is iconic to landscape painting in Canada and even more so in the transitional blaze of Autumn.

I wasn't sure what to expect but upon arrival at the Algonquin Art Center I was greeted by two friendly gallery managers and given a bag full of treats! I was then led to my accommodations which was a simple room attached to a building full of seasoned and young naturalists who work and study in the park. This staff housing is located on Found picturesque Lake Found. 

Its All About Paint

Introducing my new 5 min short video about my life and process:

Its All About Paint from Holly Friesen on Vimeo.

Making a Movie

For the past few months I have been working with film maker extraordinaire Patrice Halley to create a mini doc about my work. This has been a far more intense process than I anticipated.

   

Allowing anyone in my studio while I'm working is unusual but to have a guy with a camera in your face and underfoot every which way I turned was especially daunting.

    

Open Studio

Come and visit the studio!

Wednesday, May 27th

3pm to 9pm

This will be the kick off to my Cross Canada & Beyond Trek

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travel along with me and my paintbox!

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The Painter Eva Hesse

The hell with them all. Paint yourself out, through and through, it will come by you alone. You must come to terms with your own work not with any other being.

-Eva Hesse

Forest Paintings

Several of the forest paintings done recently and presently hanging in Montreal Exhibition "Painting from Inside the Landscape"

Natura Imaginalis  24" x 30"

 

Breathing 48" x 60"

 

Invest in Gold 24" x 30"

 

Primal Source 24" x 30"

 

Telluric Rhythms 36" x 48" 

 

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