Janet Read
Janet Read has exhibited her colour-saturated paintings from Quebec to Alberta. Most recently, extensive travels in the high arctic resulted in a new body of work, High Arctic Light shown in 2019 at the Gallery at the LE Shore Library in Thornbury.
Her work occupied one gallery of a three gallery themed exhibit at the F.H. Varley Gallery in Unionville titled, Colour, In Theory, curated by Anik Glaude in 2014. A solo exhibit curated by Carla Garnet titled Janet Read, An Abstract Practice was part of New Century Abstracts at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario in 2013.
Her work has been shown in public and commercial galleries including a recent large solo exhibit, with catalogue, titled Ocean as Vessel at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario and a well received duo exhibit at the Whitby Station Gallery titled, Sublunary, dealing with the elements of earth, air and fire.
Along with ten other OSA artists, Janet participated in the pARTners project collaborating with a recent art school graduate using video and Japanese paper within the parameters of the work. The exhibit opened in the Woodstock Public Gallery in November and toured six venues in Southern Ontario including the Japanese Paper Place in 2011-12.
Residencies in Newfoundland with the Pouch Cove Foundation and in Ireland on the Dingle peninsula have informed her love of the fluid and metaphorical nature of the sea and water.
Light over water and the emotional nuances of colour continue to fascinate her and inform her work. Light is in flux over water. Water is a changing medium, subject to many moods, provoking thoughts of transience and transcendence.
Read is a published author of a collection of poetry, Blue Mind’s Flower, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 1992 as well as two juvenile historical novels. She recently completed an MA in aesthetic philosophy on the work of metaphor in Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Her work occupied one gallery of a three gallery themed exhibit at the F.H. Varley Gallery in Unionville titled, Colour, In Theory, curated by Anik Glaude in 2014. A solo exhibit curated by Carla Garnet titled Janet Read, An Abstract Practice was part of New Century Abstracts at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario in 2013.
Her work has been shown in public and commercial galleries including a recent large solo exhibit, with catalogue, titled Ocean as Vessel at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario and a well received duo exhibit at the Whitby Station Gallery titled, Sublunary, dealing with the elements of earth, air and fire.
Along with ten other OSA artists, Janet participated in the pARTners project collaborating with a recent art school graduate using video and Japanese paper within the parameters of the work. The exhibit opened in the Woodstock Public Gallery in November and toured six venues in Southern Ontario including the Japanese Paper Place in 2011-12.
Residencies in Newfoundland with the Pouch Cove Foundation and in Ireland on the Dingle peninsula have informed her love of the fluid and metaphorical nature of the sea and water.
Light over water and the emotional nuances of colour continue to fascinate her and inform her work. Light is in flux over water. Water is a changing medium, subject to many moods, provoking thoughts of transience and transcendence.
Read is a published author of a collection of poetry, Blue Mind’s Flower, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 1992 as well as two juvenile historical novels. She recently completed an MA in aesthetic philosophy on the work of metaphor in Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Website: www.janet-read.com
Instagram: @janetreadvisualartist
Works Available for Purchase at: Propeller Online Shop
Instagram: @janetreadvisualartist
Works Available for Purchase at: Propeller Online Shop
Video by Janet Read. Edited by Doris Purchase.
