Wayne Boucher: Blue Pools

Wayne Boucher: Blue Pools

Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax, Nova Scotia

September 2 to 23rd, 2011

Opening Reception: September 2nd from 6PM to 8PM

Rising Sun : The Morning After. Japan rescue attempt number one from the golden platform with large Yellow Crane. 2011, 36” x 36”, oil on canvas.


Azimuth 123 degrees on 12/21/2012, 2011, 24” x 30”, oil on canvas


Azmuth, 2011, 10” x 12”, oil on canvas


French Basin Trail, 2011, 10” x 12”, oil on canvas


Going to Marrakesh, 2011, 36" x 36", oil on canvas


Cold Blue Light (Joel Plaskett), 2011, 36” x 48”, oil on canvas


Tiger, Tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night. (William Blake the Tiger), 2011, 48” x 48”, oil on canvas


Blue Angel descending into the depths of light. 2011, 48” x 48”, oil on canvas


Youth Transcending Time. 2011, 48”x 48”, oil on canvas


Blue Pool with Red, 2011, 48" x 36", oil on canvas (not in exhibition)


Pool of Lost Dreams, 2011, 54” x 36”, oil on canvas (not in exhibition/P&Sinventory)


Stolen Moments, 2011, 48” x 48”, oil on canvas


Finding Mark Twain, 2011, 48” x 48”,. oil on canvas


In what distance deeps or skie. Burnt the fire of thine eye (William Blake, The Tiger), 2011, 36” x 24”, .oil on canvas


Footsteps on Black Water. (Don Domanski, All our Wonders Unavenged), 2011, 30” x 24”, oil on canvas


Fractels, 2011, 30” x 30”, oil on canvas (not in exhibition/P&Sinventory)


The Name That Floats on Black Water. ( Julia McCarthy, Return from Erebus), 2011, 36” x 36”, oil on canvas

A new exhibition "La géométrie du désir / The geometry of Desire" by Wayne Boucher curated by Marcelle Belliveau

Galerie Le Trécarré


L to R; Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:"Descending", Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 5, "umee" and "Blue".


L to R; "Blue", and "Ladder At The Gate"


L to R; "Fall" and "Blue Water"


L to R; Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 11,"Transporter", Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 33, and Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 28,"Lucifer Smiling".


L to R; SBHH:'Lucifer Smiling", "Above", and "The Palisades of Paradise"


L to R; "Yellow", and "Blue" (Sattler's Glass Studio)

THE OPENING:


OPENING REMARKS: David Diviney, AGNS Curator Yarmouth Branch with Rolande, Marcelle, and Wayne (Photo, Diane Besner)


Opening: Artist talk and walk about (Photo, Diane Besner).


Opening (Photo, Diane Besner):


Blue and Yellow Glass Works Installed (Sattler's Glass Studio) Photo, Diane Besner

THE WORK:


"Fall", 2004, 77" x 77", oil on canvas


"Blue Water", 2007, 60" x 72", oil on canvas


"Blue", 2006, 84" x 120", dyptch, oil on canvas


"Ladder At The Gate", 2004, 56"x 56", oil on canvas


"Transporter"- Stage 11:Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, 2009, 36" x 36", oil on canvas


"Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage33", 2010, 36" x 36", oil on canvas


"Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 28, Lucifer Smiling", 2009, 36" x 36", oil on canvas


Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell:Stage 35, "Queen Victoria"s Castle, 36" x 36", oil on canvas


Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell: Stage, "umee -Today, October 8, 2009", 30" x 30", oil on canvas


"Spinning Lightly", 2005, 42" x 36", oil on canvas

Today: October 8, 2009 - New Paintings

Angel Wings on Fire, 2009, 30' x 30", oil on canvas


Descending, 2009, 30" x 30", oil on canvas

Spring 2009:

Spring, 2006, 46" x 46", oil on canvas


Hallelujah, 2009, 36" x 36", oil on canvas

February: Studio Work

080808, 02/2009, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


Stairways, 02/2009, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


Untitled Red #15, 02/2009, 53" x 46", oil on canvas


Mandela, 02/2009, 30" x 30", oil on canvas

"A Gathering of Lines" : Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax, NS, Canada

Banyan #4, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


Bodhi, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


Mae Sot, 2008, 18" x 16", oil on canvas


Holding the Line, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


The Lost Bird of Paradise, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


Moen, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas, private collection

These series of paintings were produced in 2008 evolving from my artist in residence at the Borderline Gallery in Mae Sot, Thailand.

The ‘Gathering of Lines’ was informed by “Proscenium Footlights” 2006, whereby the brilliance of light an vertical lines imply a veil or curtain of red. Its’ gestural action implies that something is about to happen.

The exuberance of monochromatic saturated colour, illusive content, and improvisation remain. The intent of the new work was to simplify the notions, and sensibilities of mark making and spatial colour into a cohesiveness of process, execution, and possibilities of meaning.


Proscenium Fooltights, 2006, 30" x 30", oil on canvas, NS Art Bank

In February 2008, the loosely titled “Gathering of Lines” began, and embodies two series of works “The Banyan Tree Suite” and “A Gathering of Monks”. The new work was greatly influenced by my artist in residence at the Borderline Gallery in Mae Sot, Thailand in January and February of 2008.

‘Gathering’ refers to the gathering of vertical gestural lines. In Thailand, I was awestruck by the enormous strangler fig tree (Bodhi, Banyan, or Pipal Tree), and its’ trunk, limbs, exposed climbing roots and strangling around itself. Buddha’s tree of enlightenment. The gusty and rhythmic movement of lines expanded the idea of Proscenium, and its’ consequential theatrics and dynamics . The Banyan Tree Suite is about light, movement, and the residue of a dialogue with the paintings that are open to interpretation and meaning.


Banyan6, 2008, 36 x 36, oil on canvas


Roe, 2008, 42" x 42", oil on canvas


Mywaddy, 2008, 24" x 20", oil on canvas


Strangler Fig, 2008, 24" x 24", oil on canvas

“A Gathering of Monks” is more specific in the animating of lines into the emblematic. The Saffron Revolutions of protest by Burmese Monks of 1988, 1994, 2007, and the brutal treatment of Tibetan monks and citizens in 2008 were the impetus. The lines gather, huddle, herd and march in defensive or offensive formations at the gates, in marches,in the temple, or at the palisades of protection.


At the Gate, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas


At the Wat, 2008, 42" x 42", oil on canvas


Before the Parade, 2008, 30" x 30", oil on canvas, private collection


Huddle,2008, 42" x 42" oil on canvas

The verticality of being human, the dignity of the saffron robed monks, my exiled Burmese artist friends, the light and brilliance of nothingness were important sources of inspiration in devising the choreography and dance of the paintings.


The Monkey's Grotto, 2008, 56" x 56", oil on canvas