NORTH BATTLEFORD - North Battleford-based artist Jean M. Dunn held a reception Thursday afternoon for her latest exhibition titled Natural Occurrences.
The exhibition has been running since July 31 in the lower level of Allen Sapp Gallery. Wildlife is the common theme that runs throughout her work, with Dunn specializing in wildlife paintings and wood carvings.
Those are on display in the Allen Sapp Gallery with plenty of depictions of birds and ducks, deer, wolves and other wild animals. The carvings are exclusively birds and ducks.
“It’s just an honour for me to be asked to show my work down here,” said Dunn of the exhibition. She had been gathering the artwork for the exhibition for the past year.
“It’s quite hard because a lot of my stuff sells, my originals, so it's harder to gather everything up,” said Dunn. “But I have enough for a good show here and that’s what’s important.”
Dunn has been painting since she was 12 years old and uses oils and acrylics for her paintings. She said the outdoors is where she gets inspiration.
“I love getting outside, so that’s where I see things happen and then I try to recreate things,” said Dunn.
“I’ll see something with the right light on it, a different light, so I’ll try to recreate that.” She pointed to the warm light in her picture Crossing at First Light, depicting a white-tailed deer in the snow.
“That plays a big part of any paintings,” said Dunn.
The exhibition runs to Sept. 19.
