Natural Worlds

A chronicler of the harmonious relationship between humanity and nature for over forty years, Geneviève Jost  began to teach herself how to paint in 1967, calling upon her childhood memories and the serene lake and wooded scenes that surrounded her home as inspiration.  It quickly became clear that she was a natural, instinctively picking up the techniques she needed, particularly those of perspective and transparency, to convey what would become her signature magic realist style in the grand tradition of Edward Hicks and Henri Rousseau.  Applying her colours like a wash, Jost works in subtle layers, resulting in a luminosity that gives her finished paintings a wonderful sense of depth.

Born in Quebec City in 1946, Claude de Gaspé Alleyn is entirely self-taught. Subsequent to obtaining a degree in History at the University of Montréal, he pursued a career in the field of communications, all the while continuing to paint. During the 1990s while on the fringes of the mainstream art world, he developed a unique and deceptively innocent figurative style.  While Claude’s narrative-based paintings express a social vision that is sometimes critical of our society, he always seeks to portray  human nature with kindness and a generosity of spirit.

Born in Port Coquitlam British Columbia in 1955, Jim Logan was raised in a Métis household and was inspired and taught initially by his mother who was herself an amateur landscape and wildlife painter.  Logan sees himself as a social commentator, painting his life as he lived it and as he saw it – evoking worlds that exist in opposition to mainstream society. Logan devotes himself entirely to his practice, mounting two recent solo exhibitions – Jim Logan:  Requiem for Our Children at the Penticton Art Gallery in summer 2017 and Jim Logan:  Surviving Our Children at the Cambridge Art Galleries in 2019.