If you missed the opening and reception of “Life Forms” by Brent Laycock, RCA, don't worry, you will still have an opportunity to see the exhibition to May 8, 2007 at the Wallace Galleries
500 - 5th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta
403.262.8050
And, if you can't afford to purchase one of Laycock's wild, opulent floral paintings from this exhibit, you can still have a collection of Laycock's art by purchasing Waterton: Brush & Pen, on which he collaborated with well-known writer Fred Stenson.
More than an art book, a travel book, or a history book, Waterton: Brush and Pen takes readers on an inspiring journey to a hidden paradise.
In Waterton Lakes National Park, where prairie meets mountain and lake mirrors sky, visual artist Brent Laycock and author Fred Stenson have found a lifetime of subject and inspiration. Waterton: Brush and Pen brings their work together in celebration of this magical place.
Ninety-one of these splendid and evocative paintings are reproduced here in full colour: from the quiet coulees and prairie panoramas of the foothills to the forest havens, alpine meadows, soaring peaks, and wind-whipped water of Waterton Lakes National Park. His introductory essay and comments on each painting give further insight into the creative process and the artist's deep attachment to his subject.
Accompanying Laycock's paintings are fourteen essays by Stenson, recounting his personal experience of the Waterton area along with reflections on the history and geography of this spectacular, out-of-the-way place. The central theme of his essays is the inescapable influence Waterton exerts on the life and dreams of the people who dwell in its shadow.
Laycock and Stenson are mature, recognized, and award-winning artists in their respective disciplines - and both grew up on farms where the Waterton Rockies beckoned from the western horizon. Waterton is a touchstone for their lives and art, a place of refuge, fun, awe, and adventure to which they have always returned.
"lovely little volume" - The Globe and Mail
Brent Laycock was born in Lethbridge, in 1947. He received an M.F.A. at Brigham Young University in Utah. In 1993, he was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, and was awarded the Tony Stephenson Award for acrylic painting in 2000, 2004, and 2005 and the Haworth Award for watercolour in 2002. Laycock lives in Calgary with his wife, Kathy.
Fred Stenson was raised on a farm and cattle ranch between Pincher Creek and Waterton Lakes National Park. Stenson has written thirteen books, the most recent, Lightning (2003), won the Grant MacEwan Author's Ward. His novel, The Trade, won the inaugural Grant MacEwan Author's Award and was nominated for the 2000 Giller Prize, as well as many more awards. He lives in Calgary with his wife, author and educator Pamela Banting.
