Memory Gardens
Solo Exhibition
Jarvis Hall Gallery
Jarvis Hall Gallery
333B 36 Ave SE, Calgary, AB Canada
Exhibition Dates
October 19 - November 17th , 2018
Lightning Strike
42 x 78 Inches Oil on Canvas 2018
Fireflies at Ridgewood Reservoir
60 x 48 inches, Oil on Canvas 2017
Cut Moon
34 x 50 inches Oil on Canvas 2018
Lake Shadow Puppets
48 x 48 inches Oil on Canvas 2018
Ripple Heat
60 x 48 inches, Oil on Canvas 2018
Hot Noon Light
24 x 30 inches, Oil on Canvas on Wood Panel, 2018
Desert Flowers
40 x 30 inches , Oil on Linen 2017
Forest Fire Lightning Storm
60 x 72 inches Oil on Canvas 2017
Case Woodlot
40 x 30 inches , Oil on Canvas , 2017
Maquette for Forest Fire Lightning Storm Framed
Maquette for River Rock at Twilight
Memory Gardens is a series of paintings that depict personal memories of landscapes. The works lament the landscape, and manufacture new places through the process of painting. The foundation for each painting is a memory, allowing each to tell a unique narrative. For over a decade, MacFarlane has been building maquettes as a way to enter the process of painting.
Lately, her models are made from paper in shallow boxes no bigger than a postcard. The constructions depict gardens, mountains, waterways, rock formations and other sites of landscape. She then lights these makeshift miniature spaces and uses them as the observational foundation for the paintings.
The maquettes allow her to capture temporal light, physical form, and to create coloured atmospheres. She acts like a studio-based plein air painter among these miniature paper gardens. Through this process she fabricates a new place, building it from the residue of memory, and the humble material of paper.
Fool's Paradise 2017
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