Exhibition of Gillian Lazanik's mixed-media landscape paintings that use tea leaf-infused oils and preserved natural materials to evoke Nova Scotia's wild, unclaimed landscapes.
Gillian Lazanik is showing Before You Settled at Art 1274 Hollis Gallery in Halifax, running from August 5 to September 1. It's a body of work by the Canadian artist, whose practice sits at the intersection of abstraction and realism.
What makes this one stand out is how Lazanik builds her paintings. She works with oil paints infused with tea leaves, and she incorporates preserved natural materials directly into the surface. The result is a series that carries subtle scents as well as colour—an immersive approach that asks you to engage with more than just your sight. If you've spent any time around the coast, the connection to the land here is something you'll recognize.
As for what she's painting, Before You Settled imagines Nova Scotia's coast and countryside stripped back to the wild, unclaimed state that came before roads, fences and rooftops. She's looking at raw landscapes as they existed before humans entered the picture, so the scenes are the province's scenery without the fingerprints of settlement. It's a way of seeing the land as it was, rather than as we've made it.
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The gallery is open from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm throughout the run, from August 5 through to September 1, so you can drop in whenever fits your day.
