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Art Canadian

Paint and Ink

The Tools of Kathryn Bemrose and Ray Mead

with Linda Jansma

text by James D. Campbell

Publisher
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921500438
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $6

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The works in this exhibition create a dialogue of the formal affinity between the two artists that is obvious. It is their shared concern to safeguard the reality of a painting against internal threat by the gratuitous, the easy or the baroque. As Mead has said: "The essential thing was to maintain the reality of the painting, and to make cerain that it did not owe its being to transient effects of colour and constant light changes, that it had a reality within itself". This "reality in itself" is what both painters are after - and it is perhaps sufficient testament to their originality to say that this is what they achieve.

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