Mixed media artist and painter Heather Cline is fascinated by how personal history intersects with human geography. Her lush works go on exhibition July 13 through Sept. 2 in a summer show of artists represnted by Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina.
The Saskatchewan-based Cline most recently explored the radically altered terrain of Western Canada in a series of aerial landscape paintings based on observations from the passenger seat of a Cessna Skyhawk.
I feel that the process I am using to create my aerial landscapes mimics my complex feelings about human interaction with the land. Applying layers of almost sculptural paint, carving, sanding, and reworking the surface of the wooden panels I use as my working surface.
Heather Cline
Cline received the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award: Arts & Learning for her work as the Artist Manager of an innovative distance learning ‘Artist in the School’ program. Currently, Cline is an instructor at the University of Regina. Her work can be found in many public and private collections, including the Colart Collection, the Mendel Art Gallery and the Saskatchewan Legislature Building.
Slate Fine Art Gallery, here.
Virtual reality of one of her exhibitions at Slate, here.
Heather Cline website, here.
Image at top of post: Waterways-Water Cycle, acrylic on panel, 36 x 48″
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Absolutely wonderful works.
I love that she basically paints from the air, although I realize it’s nowhere near that simple. But that’s part of what makes it wonderful. Thanks for weighing in.
I think they are beautiful…I had to share the post.
I’d love to be able to visit this exhibition. There are challenges to painting on wooden panels that those who don’t carve and paint are unaware of. Heather Cline’s work is really exceptional.
Yes, an astute obaservation, for sure. She references her “carving, sanding, and reworking” the surface of the wooden panels she uses, something you as a carver would be familiar, and aware of the difficulty of. Thank you for your comment.