Opening next in the Rick Faries Gallery is Keeping Calm, a selection of botanical and interior paintings by Louisa Bermingham.

As a mother and an art teacher, Louisa Bermingham’s artwork is an escape from an increasingly intense world of demands and pressures and injustices by being happy and calm via simple exploration of texture, light, colour, pattern and line. She is interested in drawing with paint, pushing her internal constraint of perspective and form representation. She intentionally limits the time in which she creates images as a way of capturing immediacy with her mark-making. The pressures of the world play on her time, interestingly insisting that she create manageable presentations of wonderful things, that also give pause for rest.

Keeping Calm will open on Friday September 29, with an opening reception from 5:30-7pm, and be on view until October 24, 2023.

ARTIST TALK with Louisa

For those eager to delve deeper into the artist’s creative process and gain insight into the inspiration behind her works, there will be an artist talk on Tuesday, October 17, from 5:30-7pm.

FREE for Members | $10 for Non-Members

Admission can be paid at the door.