Confluence Congruence

Patti Dyment and Grant Waddell

“Confluence / Congruence”

March 30 - April 20, 2024

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday March 30th

2-6PM

BOTH ARTISTS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE

Patti and Grant met at a plein air painting camp at Lake O’Hara in 2017. Since then their creative journeys have intersected several times in alpine painting retreats. Both are passionate to explore and express the natural world, both infinite and intimate, in glorious colour. From glacial peaks, down streams and lakes to the ocean’s shore, their expressions and fascinations flow and converge in this exhibition.

Grant Waddell, a native of Calgary was classically trained at the Alberta College of Art as an award winning advertising photographer. He started to re-evaluate his creative direction and in 2013, began painting again which he had not done for 28 years .Traditional representational landscape has been his subject matter and he's shown at the Leighton Centre as well as partaking in shows at The Ranchmen's Club as well as being included in the Mini Masterpieces show at The Calgary Stampede. Primarily working in oils he has begun experimenting in acrylics. Artists such as Gus Kenderdine and The Group of Seven were and continue to affect his work but recently his hidden desire to reach deeper into the world of abstraction has put artists like Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig and Richard Diebenkorn on his radar.

When Patti Dyment arrived in Canmore in 1986, she encountered a friendly and vibrant arts community. She dove right in and started painting. She began exhibiting in commercial galleries and having solo exhibitions in the late 80’s and in 2011 she was granted signature status by the Federation of Canadian Artists. She also had a solo exhibition at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Her art brightens two utility boxes in Canmore including the box at the Iron Goat and the one at Shoppers Drug Mart. The bulk of her painting is done in her studio in Canmore but she said she is also hooked on painting en plein air, (painting outdoors). She was an artist in residence at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge on the shores of Bow Lake. Num-Ti-Jah is a Stoney Plain word for pine marten. Dyment exhibited at the Calgary Stampede Western Art Gallery. After many years of painting, studying and taking instruction from other fine painters, Dyment surprised herself by becoming busy teaching painting.