The way we recognize and understand our surroundings shares qualities of core features of art. Basic shapes, grouping, value and movement – the stimuli we use to make sense of our environment – are also launching points for visual art activities and for critical thinking that...

Through media over-exposure the nude has become commonplace and freighted with preconception. Painting and sculpture are among the few vehicles in which it can still be viewed within an objective frame of reference.

A painting’s dynamic, enclosed within its boundary, is thought to be a self-contained system – an expression of a moment in time. Can it grow beyond its design framework?

Two-dimensional space has geometry within its design and structure. The art of examining a perceptible framework takes in dynamics of space and subject, emptiness and mass, dark and light.

Huron County rolls eastward from Lake Huron just south of the Bruce Peninsula. The tranquil pastures and wooded areas bear composed witness to the area’s long history of human industry and passion.

Time stilled, form and space examined through two-dimensional design: The soul of still life painting is revealed through its composition.