The Healing Power of Art
In the presence of art, we may experience inspiration, wonder, and even hope; it can spark our imagination, creativity, and thinking. Our internal awareness and capacity for transformation can expand through experiences with art.
When in front of an artwork, we are connected to the artist and to others who have experienced it. And connection, to ourselves and others, is at the core of art and healing.
Healing isn’t a destination with a fixed timeline or endpoint but rather a path, or many paths. Just like each visit with a favorite work of art is a new experience with new insights, healing is a journey with possibilities stretching out in all directions.
- edited from an online MoMa article by Jackie Armstrong; Associate Educator, Visitor Research and Experience
ARTIST'S BIO & SHOW STATEMENT
Ann Poggemiller
Ann’s childhood and life on the farm in North East Saskatchewan has made nature a constant in Ann’s life. She evolved from gardener to farmer while using this inspiration for her art.
Watercolour is her predominant medium with trials in encaustic, inks, acrylics, resin, metal and wood. A plein air painting retreat ignited her passion for painting outside in nature. With the sun and wind embracing her, Ann paints those emotions and experiences into the work you see allowing her to share a little bit of her parkland paradise.
Ann’s cyanotype printing has opened up new ways to use leaves, flowers and other botanicals from her garden and yard. Cyanotype produces cyan blue prints using chemically coated paper, botanicals and sunlight. When each print is washed after being in the sun, the colour transforms to different shades of blues.
Each print is original and unique.
To contact Ann: cell 1.306.873.8800 or email Poggemiller@staffcomm.com.
Ann Poggemiller
Teal Wheat & Grasses
Cyanotype in Teal
Oats & Willows
Midnight & Flower Dance
Cyan Foliage I
Soaring in the Blue
Foliage Ring
Intertwined Cyanotype
Cyan Circle
Garden Cyan
Peach Tree
Lime Green Tree
Tranquil Turquoise
Autumn Tree
Mora's Poplar
Dirt Road Adventure
Dicken's Lake Rise
Dicken's Rockery
Widening of the Red Deer River
Grasses
Summer Time
Sepia Forest
Fence in the Snow
Going Down the Road
Winter Poplar
Wintery Aspen
Birch of Denare
Are You an Artist Interested in Exhibiting at BHC?
If so, click on the link below to email us and share a bit about yourself and your artwork, your contact information and a couple of samples of your work (or a link to instagram or facebook).
We look forward to hearing from you.
