Buying Art, Modern Luxuria Feature, and Other News
One thing the pandemic has done for artists is that we’ve had to re-think the way that we get our work into the hands of those who would like to own it. Exhibitions seem less appealing right now, though of course we all hope that will change eventually. We all miss looking at art in person while sipping a nice glass of wine, and chatting with friends, art lovers, and clients. One day that will happen again. But for now, social media has been really helpful.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the gallery I was represented by in Edmonton closed their doors. And it’s an interesting thing about being Canadian, and specifically an Edmontonian, is that often we’re overlooked in our own cities. Thanks to social media, I’ve been forging new relationships with some great new galleries and art advisors. I now have ties to or am represented by galleries in London, Malibu, Toronto, Pouch Cove and Chicago.
I’m really pleased to say that my work has been featured in (yes) a new Edmonton magazine, Modern Luxuria. Not only is there one of my paintings on the cover, but there is a lovely article written by Joe Gurba that I’m very grateful for. In it he says, “Much of this epiphany is created by the way Lemay frames his subject, as if the viewer is leaning in to inhale. The abundant blossoms are not squarely centred in the four walls of the canvas like the flowery vase-bound fireworks of the Flemish masters. Instead, the just-wilting blooms are brought right to the viewer’s nose. The result is an olfactory synesthesia.”
Please read the article below, which is on page 38 if you have time. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
What comes next? I don’t have any exhibitions or trips planned, which will probably be a similar story for many artists all over the world. We had hoped to go to Rome this November, but that won’t be happening. Instead our daughter is coming home to spend a couple of months with us since her college animation courses are remote anyway. So this will be a gift.
I plan to spend fall and winter painting all the blooms that I’ve photographed this past spring and summer. I hope that some of the paintings will end up in homes where they can ease the pressures of solitude, bring some joy and colour into peoples’ lives on a cold winter day, and lighten and brighten a few hearts.