February 28 – March 27 //

Reception: Fri. March 21, 6-8 pm //

“I was born and raised in Sudbury. In this series of landscape paintings, I am focusing on the bleak but beautiful terrain of Sudbury that I remember when growing up in the 1950’s. Since a young child, I have felt the need to express myself in a visual format. Making art for me, has always been an attempt to translate a childhood sense of awe with this stark land into artistic statements. I have no interest in duplicating exactly what I saw back then: rather, my fascination lies in clarifying for, me the wonder and amazement I felt about the colours, textures, shapes and sweep of the Sudbury landscape around me. The subject matter of this series began as landscape memories and proceeded to abstract paintings.

My childhood home lay between Junction Creek and Lorne Street. This was the world of my childhood: endless days of chemical colours, summer dust, ageless boulders, pink evenings, smoldering brush, regular rumbles, torn horizons, glistening metallics, cantilevered pond ice, undulating willows, wild cucumber, ragged cold mornings, frozen laundry, and a sand patina that stretched beyond the tree distant stacks.

This art is very personal. It is how I deal with the flow of thought and emotions that reflect the awe I felt and continue to feel with regards to the old Sudbury landscape. It encompasses the memories, dreams, and sense of wonder that come from my years growing up in my starkly beautiful Sudbury.”  – John Haynes

The LAC would like to thank Patricia Haynes for her generous donation of her late husband’s artwork and for her continuous support of the art centre through the years.