View from the Bedroom Window from the collection of Temiskaming Art Gallery

View from the Bedroom Window, 2003

Chalk Pastel

18 x 20 in

Signature: Lower right hand side

Inv: 133

Statement about the artwork: The view is actually from my bedroom - constantly changing - kaleidoscope of colour & form. This piece was my first attempt at pastel painting and it was accepted in the Ontario Pastel Society Open Exhibition. I was blown away. This event started me on a study of pastel which has not as yet come to fruition.

Q: In what ways has living in Northern Ontario influenced your work?
A: Northern Ontario is so huge that it allows the individual artist to stay isolated. A Northerner can still paint landscape without Blushing. And it wold take several lifetimes to comprehend this country.

Q: What do you think is of importance about the Permanent Collection for northern artists and communities?
A: As a young person I travelled around England. What I really enjoyed was coming across a small gallery with a Permanent Collection of area artists. A lot of the paintings were not "sophisticated" bu the insight to the people and place was so much richer than the collection of say "the AGA."

Q: Do you have any other brief comments about your art?
A: Atmosphere is my main inspiration. Method - simply a brush and colour - no gimmicks.

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About the artist

Gwen Keatley

Gwen Keatley is both an artist and stage designer. She graduated in painting and drawing from the Ontario College of Art and in stage decor from the National Theatre School. She taught theatre design in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Alberta for twelve years and designed over 100 productions for Canadian stage from Fredericton to Calgary.

Gwen's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Ontario and Michigan, including the Art Gallery of Algoma, the Cornwall Gallery in Sault Ste. Marie, Alberta House in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and at Fort St. Joseph. In 2001 she has won awards at Alberta House, and from the Algoma Arts Council.

Her chalk pastel work in the TAG collection, View from the window, is an evocative scene of light and mist and snow.

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Gwen Keatley est artiste et scénographe. Elle est diplômée en peinture et dessin de l’Ontario College of Art et en scénographie de l’École nationale de théâtre. Elle a enseigné la scénographie à la faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université d’Alberta pendant douze années et signé plus d’une centaine de productions théâtrales en tant que scénographe dans divers théâtres canadiens entre Fredericton et Calgary.

Les tableaux de Gwen ont été exposés dans plusieurs expositions en solo ou de groupe en Ontario et au Michigan, entre autres à la Galerie d’art d’Algoma, la Galerie Cornwall de Sault-Sainte-Marie, Ontario, l’Alberta House de Sault-Sainte-Marie, Michigan, et à Fort Saint-Joseph. En 2001 son œuvre était primée par l’Alberta House et le Conseil des arts d’Algoma.

Son tableau en craie pastel intitulé View from the window [Vue de ma fenêtre] de la collection de la GAT est une scène d’hiver très évocatrice avec ses jeux de lumière et de brume.