Painting from nature still answers something we crave. JANE EVERETT paints movement, layers, memory, and hope in her waters. Home, in these paintings, is the road back, and the light ahead.
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Autumn in Algoma. ๐
Lawren Harris painted ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ (c. 1923) during his time in Ontario's Algoma District โ a region that elicited some of his most sensuous and warm work, a world away from the stark grandeur of his later Lake Superior and Arctic scenes.
In the foreground we see a stand of tree trunks, mostly bare but for a few colourful boughs of
abstracted foliage. Beyond lies an expansive lake, rendered in a broad swath of delicately modulated colour, and in the distance, the forested hill is but a collection of uniform shapes standing in for trees.
Harrisโs unadorned vista evokes a feeling of calm, expressing the spiritual resonance he would increasingly strive for in his works
Lawren S. Harris (1885โ1970), ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ, c. 1923, oil on canvas, 82.5 x 102.8 cm, Gift of Colonel R.S. McLaughlin, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1968.7.5 ยฉ Family of Lawren S. Harris
JANE EVERETT
Long Road Home
October 17 โ November 5, 2026
Everett paints the experience of a place. Water, air, and light translated by her skillful hand. A paddle slips into the lake much like a brush moves across the canvas. Both enter, pull, and lift. Sunlight breaks on the surface and comes back up from below. A line rides the water the way a ripple does, slight, and carrying more than it should.
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Kant on Beauty
โThe beautiful is what pleases universally without a concept.
Kant strips away the need for definitions when discussing beauty. It is an immediate, intuitive pleasure that transcends linguistic boundaries.
A judgment of taste is not a judgment of knowledge, and therefore not logical, but aesthetic.
We must distinguish between knowing what a tree is and feeling the beauty of its form. These are two distinct modes of operation for the human mind.
The beautiful is the object of a necessary satisfaction.
The necessity here is subjective, meaning we feel as though others ought to agree with us. It creates a community of shared aesthetic value."
Painting from nature still answers something we crave. Everett paints movement, layers, memory, and hope in her waters. Home, in these paintings, is the road back, and the light ahead.
โNothing gets the rulers of institutional culture more worried than an intense passion beyond their controlโthat๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝs why they avoid the word beauty. โ
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Art is a side-hustle for the Toronto doctor commissioned to paint King Charles; he also runs an addiction and mental health treatment centre
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While previous studies have linked regular gallery visits to long-term wellbeing, Art Fund said that this was the first time research had captured the real-time physiological benefits while viewing art.
Art Fund's director, Jenny Waldman, said: โThis study proves for the first time what we've long felt at Art Fund โ that art really is good for you. Whatโs particularly exciting is that the findings show these benefits are universal โ they can be experienced by anyone.
โWe want to encourage everyone to make time to visit their local museum or gallery and experience these powerful effects for themselves.โ
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โOne must take care to keep pigments and mixture pure on the palette, on the brush, on the canvas.โ (OB)
Oscar Bluemner built his own private science of color. His Theory Diaries mapped pigments into swatches, mixtures and relationships, complete with his own abbreviations and color codes. This page from 1920 feels remarkably like a palette database made by hand.