About the Art Show
We invite you to join us for this artist reception.
Saturday September 21st, 2024
Artist Talk: 3pm
Reception: 2 – 4pm
“Come Butterfly! It’s Late” is Cheryl’s second solo exhibition of the year. The exhibition showcases a collection of paintings inspired by native meadows and mountains, inviting visitors to aesthetically appreciate the beauty of nature’s tapestry through layers of texture in acrylics.
With a background in biology, and through her artistic creations, Cheryl champions the importance of native plants to environmental sustainability and protecting pollinator populations.
“Visual complexity is distilled into carefully choreographed simplicity. Shapes, surface textures, and a limited palette are combined with a powerful and unifying black. A poetic re-interpretation of landscape emerges in my distinctive and authentic voice.”
“My paintings express a deeply rooted familial connection to the Canadian countryside. Mountains, rivers, hills, valleys, forests, farmland — I love them all!”
— Cheryl Bailey
About Cheryl Bailey
Cheryl Bailey is a Toronto-born contemporary landscape artist from Oakville Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). Recently one of her paintings was juried into the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Cheryl has studied with John Leonard, Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) member, at the Etobicoke Art Group studio and at Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design since 2012.
“The moment I laid my eyes on Cheryl Bailey’s Canadian landscape paintings, I was struck by their rich, expansive color and intense texture. Visual complexity is distilled into carefully choreographed simplicity. A poetic re-interpretation of the scene she is rendering emerges in a unique and distinctive style.“
David Reed, RIverdale Hub Gallery Curator
Pictured: “A Day in the Hills”, by Cheryl Bailey, Acrylic on Canvas.
