Gallery 2’s Art Prompt is back! On the first of every month, we will be introducing a new art prompt inspired by current or upcoming exhibitions. You can draw, paint, or sculpt, it's up to you! Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done.
This month’s art prompt is Shelter, inspired by Fern Helfand and Veronica Verkley’s exhibitions that are set to open on May 8 at Gallery 2. Fern’s Timber, Lumber, Wood, Home and Veronica’s Second Nature: Resilience both embody the theme of shelter. Fern’s large-scale photographs of log piles and lumber mills encourages us to consider how we use our forests as materials for building homes and sheltering ourselves. Veronica’s time-lapse video of an abandoned house in the forest gradually collapsing over time, shows how the house becomes uninhabitable to some, but in its decay, it becomes a shelter for wildlife. For this art prompt, we want you to consider the theme of shelter – how do we shelter ourselves? What does shelter mean to you? You can draw, paint, sculpt, it’s up to you! Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done.
Image: Veronica Verkley, “Second Nature: Resilience”, Screenshot, 2017
Image: Leora Gesser, “Stratigraphy 4”, Watercolour, conte, acrylic ink, pastel and lichen on paper, 2018
Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done.
Image: Buck McIver
Image: Melon Durand
Image: Sonja Gartner
This month’s art prompt is Carbon, inspired by the exhibition And Even Dust Can Burst into Flames currently on display at Gallery 2. This exhibition is by Nelson artist Genevieve Robertson. Genevieve’s drawings use pigments made with found carbon-based materials – coal, graphite, ash, and wildfire-derived charcoal - that she collected in the East and West Kootenays where coal and graphite mining take place and climate-induced wildfires are increasing in severity. For this art prompt, we want you to draw inspiration from Genevieve’s drawings. Consider her use of carbon which is central to her work – as a drawing material, a periodic element, a life-producing molecule, and the substance that is so central to climate change. Or create a drawing that resembles a prehistoric plant or animal, like we see in Genevieve’s work. You can draw, paint, sculpt, it’s up to you! Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done.
Image: Genevieve Robertson, “Tangle,” Brush fire derived charcoal (from Salt Spring Island, BC) on rag paper, 2021
Image: Leora Gesser, “Stratigraphy 8,” Watercolour, conte, acrylic ink, pastel and lichen on paper, 2019
This month’s art prompt is Strata, inspired by the exhibition Stratigraphy currently on display at Gallery 2. This exhibition is by Grand Forks artist Leora Gesser. Stratigraphy is the study of the rock layers of the earth. It is used by geologists and archeologists to understand the history of an area over long periods of time. This exhibition, Stratigraphy, examines what has come before us; celebrating the beauty of the earth’s layers on which we both metaphorically and physically stand. For this art prompt, we want you to create a work of art inspired by Leora’s paintings and prints. Use different textures, shapes, symbols, and colours in your own Stratigraphy-inspired work. You can draw, paint, sculpt, it’s up to you! Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done.
This month’s art prompt is Winter Scene, inspired by this snowy ski hill scene. This piece by Grand Forks local Leta Heiberg is called “Groomers at Phoenix.” For this art prompt, we want you to create your own wintery scene. You can draw, paint, sculpt, it’s up to you! Send us a picture of your artwork to programs@g2gf.ca or post it in the comments on Gallery 2’s Facebook page. Check back at the beginning of every month for a new Art Prompt and to see what your fellow artists have done. If you love this artwork, you can rent it as well as many others through the gallery’s art rental program which is available to Gallery 2 members. For more information about Gallery 2’s art rental program, check out the Gallery 2 website gallery2grandforks.ca, call 250-442-2211, or email info@g2gf.ca
Image: Leta Heiberg, “Groomers at Phoenix,” acrylic on canvas
Winter Kiss, Wanda Parker
Buck McIver
Sonja Gartner