Summer at The Avenue Gallery has only fueled our artists’ creativity! Join us as we celebrate the intersection of artistic expression and the boundless inspiration found in nature. Discover captivating new paintings, sculptures, jewellery, and much more in today’s bountiful newsletter… Included in this Newsletter: Becky Holuk Bruce Edmundson William Liao MichaudMichaud Design Gordon Scott Guy Hollington Digital Superimposing & On Approval (scroll down…) _____________________________ BECKY HOLUK Loving the Lilacs Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 $2600 Step into a world of blossoms...
Bruce Edmundson’s elegant wood sculptures begin as bumps on a log, aka burls, so when he learns I’ve got a felled, super bumpy big leaf maple tree at my place, he’s happy to take a look. He’s brought along his friend Kent Mjolness, and they eagerly circle the massive, hollow trunk sections. There are plenty of visible burls, which are actually rounded growths formed when a tree is under stress from an injury, virus or fungus. I tell them I considered turning the maple into firewood. I detect some shudders. Burl wood has unusual texture, colour and figure (or appearance). Birdseye, resembling tiny...
