INGRAM GALLERY

Greetings!

Immerse yourself this month in Jane Everett’s Raindance. The start of exhibition season has arrived and is suitably marked by this joyously beautiful new collection. You are invited to join Jane Everett at the gallery Saturday, September 7 at her opening reception from 1pm to 3pm.



Smoke Ring Day I - oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

Travelling from Kelowna to Toronto for opening day, Everett will be at the gallery throughout the afternoon. Her landscapes dance beyond the bounds of canvas and paint. Balanced in their energy and imagery, Everett’s paintings inspire as we revel in their abstraction.

JANE EVERETT

Raindance

September 7 - 25 . 2024

Opening Reception with the Artist:

Saturday, September 7 | 1pm to 3pm

Eclipse I - oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches

Everett’s meditative and hopeful Raindance invites us to water where life springs forth and light abounds. Through her combination of solid and ethereal mark-making, the artist enables us to journey past the surface. Standing in front of an Everett canvas one can sense the innermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere where we live, breathe, and see weather.

Marsh II - oil on canvas, 48 x 34 inches



The Water Rose and Rose II - oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

The freeing and gentle beauty that radiates welcomes the viewer as we join in the artist’s celebratory symphony of line, colour, and meaning. Blending reality with introspection, Everett uses anchors of the familiar as overture to her hope-filled compositions. The viewer participates in her harmonic landscapes, feeling pleasure in the consideration of the balance of nature.

Marsh I - oil on canvas, 34 x 48 inches



R a i n d a n c e

The fires that are now a predictable part of an Okanagan summer are on my mind while I paint. You can see the pentimento of the landscape with which I usually begin my compositions: fish jumping, swimming ladders, waterlilies, and of course, trees.

The fires have ravaged the landscape, but I am not painting the destruction they leave behind. I'm painting the water. I'm painting the lake, the fire pond, and the mouth of the creek where the high water drowns the willows. I'm painting resilience and hope.

I'm painting a prayer for rain.

- Jane Everett

Last August at the Fire Pond - oil on canvas, 36 x 54 inches

Jane Everett lives and creates in the interior of British Columbia, travelling between her home in Kelowna and her cottage on the north shore of Shuswap. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1958, Everett is a graduate of Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her works are included in notable collections across the country, including Buhler Gallery in Manitoba, Vernon Public Art Gallery in British Columbia, and on public view in the foyer of the Grand Okanagan Hotel in Kelowna, the foyer of Royal Canadian Securities Limited in Winnipeg, and the Atrium of the Administration Building at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Everett created the visuals for Ballet Kelowna’s production of Macbeth (2022/24) and Saskatoon’s Nuit Blanche in 2021 and is featured in Patricia Bovey’s Western Voices in Canadian Art, University of Manitoba Press, 2023.

Smoke Ring Day II - oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

Raindance is Jane Everett’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. This relevant and resonant new collection is comprised of thirteen new oil paintings and range in price from $800 - $12,000. Please be in touch to preview the collection and to receive the exhibition catalogue.

Smoke Ring Day III - oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

Raindance continues at the gallery through to September 25.

The Water Rose and Rose - oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches

Join us for the opening reception and meet Jane Everett Saturday, September 7 from 1pm to 3pm. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing in Everett's accomplished paint and sage insight together.

Tarah Aylward

Ingram Gallery Inc.

24 Hazelton Avenue

Toronto

416-929-2220

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