Gladstone & Bay

Earlier today at Dollorama

Kids OUTREACH ART PROGRAM at OSA !

Adawe Pedestrian Bridge

Today on Kent St.

Today on Bank St.

Sheila Barclay on Bank & Somerset telling me all about 'Fractal Art Beyond' and letting me draw in her giant art pad. She cut out two business cards and we exchanged coordinates - a real firecracker!

One block away at Gilmour, Elaine is trying to raise money to buy furniture for her new apartment!

A lot of unicorns at Value Village

DOLLS GONE WILD BLUEBERRIES

ART IN THE LOO! NOT THE LOUVRE! 

LIFE OF PIE

1134 Bank St. Ottawa

March 6th to end of month 

LACELLE and EVANCHUCK  have collaborated to produce a rather Marvelous Realism using Evanchuck's photographic images of Blueberry shacks on the #7 and Lacelle's artistry to add the marvelous to those realistic images and of course the dolls - abandoned Dolls from the maritimes to Ottawa, dolls found in old abandoned homes in the Maritimes, on junk piles in Toronto and Hamilton, in Variety Village at Niagara Falls, at the Bargain Box on Laurier and dozens of other accidental finds of abandoned dolls.

Images were shot during recent ice storm - one has to wait to 'get the right image the will display the atmosphere the 'feel'  - the ice storm produced the perfect feel of emptiness, loneliness, the harshness of life surrounding the inhabitants.

The show draws in the viewer to help them 'feel' the strangeness of the area - of course the viewer may form their personal thoughts on the combination of creative techniques used to add an odd and unmistakable 'feel' to this presentation - don't expect the ordinary from creative people and certainly not from Lacelle&Evanchuck

The #7 highway from Perth to Madoc is ancient in many ways .... untouched for decades with modernity, an olden days display of abandoned properties, junked vehicles and a sense of loss... that sense one feels as they drive the two lane blacktop road trippin' thru Ontario's hinterland looking at the way things used to be and still are.

There are no condos here, no hipsters just the stillness of that past that lingers into the present .... 

 ART IN THE LOO! NOT THE LOUVRE!

LIFE OF PIE

1134 Bank St. Ottawa

March 6th to end of month 

 

Near Sharbot Lake

More mini companions

My little friends are going to get wrapped-up and sent to Sweet Mabel Gallery. Once there,  they will make new friends and hopefully bring joy and happiness.

New mini companion

Rideau Canal 4:50pm

From the 12th floor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ottawa U

Snow Sculpture in front of OSA

My Friend Niagara Falls

Hello from Rainbow Bridge

Article in METROLAND EAST NEWSPAPER

Helene Lacelle

Submitted/Peter Evanchuck

Helene Lacelle carries one of her works into Café Nostalgica, at 601 Cumberland St. Her exhibit with Peter Evanchuck runs until the end of February

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Ottawa East News

By Alex Robinson

LINK TO ARTICLE

Two Sandy Hill artists are inviting art lovers to engage in their world of “marvelous realism” this February.

Peter Evanchuck and Helene Lacelle have launched a new exhibit at Café Nostalgica – called Marvelous Realism Canada – which combines photography and other mediums.

The couple’s work draws from magical realism, a literary and artistic style that portrays fantastical things happening in the real world.

“Basically it’s the ability to get the audience to feel what we felt when we were on location and when we were shooting the photographs,” Evanchuck said.

“We didn’t feel the photos themselves would reveal that feeling alone.”

Most of the work in the exhibit centres on abandoned houses in New Brunswick the couple stumbled upon while driving to their cottage in the Maritimes.

Some of the homes had been deserted for decades, but one had been abandoned as recently as five years ago.

The two explored these buildings and discovered all sorts of belongings that had been left behind. They were particularly struck with some dolls that they included on a number of the images in the exhibit.

Evanchuck photographed the homes and Lacelle then used paint, software and other mediums to alter them in an attempt to evoke a certain emotion they were feeling at the time.

“These images convey how we felt about those abandoned houses,” Evanchuk said.

“Those dolls are waiting for the little girls that left them behind. It creates that feeling of marvel and also a tragic sense of loss for when these people had to abandon their homes.”

The couple said altering the images was necessary to convey the deep feelings of abandonment and sense of marvel.

The exhibit is set to run at 601 Cumberland St. until the end of February.

HELENE LACELLE's NEW ART SHOW - Cafe Nostalgica

theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS installation

theOLD are examples of her art over past decade

theNEW are very recent collage pieces of framed art

theMARVELOUS are photoART created with partner PeterEvanchuck

taking original Evanchuck photos of abandoned NB homes adding styles and content to make them 'MARVELOUS'

HELENE installing new collage art at CAFE NOSTALGICA

prolific artist HELENE LACELLE created

over a dozen new pieces of art

for this Nostalgica show

from 03feb16 to end of leapYearmonth 29Feb16

Helene Lacelle lining-up her NEW work at Cafe Nostalgica

No skating today

the OLD, the NEW, the MARVELOUS art by Helene Lacelle & Peter Evanchuck

New collage by Helene Lacelle for art show at Cafe Nostalgica

theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS art by HELENE LACELLE & PETER EVANCHUCK

from 04Feb to 29^th at Café Nostalgica, 601 Cumberland on the Ottawa UNiversity campus

theOLD:

a retrospective of the past decade and a half of LACELLE’s art work.: tracing her various styles, forms and reincarnations. Her experimentations in ‘new’ art makes even these ‘old’ art pieces look contemporary.

the NEW:

prolific artist HELENE LACELLE has created a completely new set of collage images for showing at CAFÉ NOSTALGICA. Entitled – theOLDtheNEWtheMARVELOUS

LACELLE’s technique is rather unique in that she sees her ‘art ‘ on the canvas not in her head. In her collages, using old photos loaned from a German baroness as a central focus, she creates  and enhances them into her personal ‘art’ by mixing in various images/styles from many sources that together form an overall effect of modernity i.e. new-ness. They are complex yet very simple, very effective.

theMARVELOUS:

       continuing her collaboration with partner PETER EVANCHUCK on MARVELOUS REALISM CANADA, LACELLE has created new additions to the original abandoned homes photographs of EVANCHUCK. This portion of the exhibit is called ‘A DOLL’s HOUSE’

One Toronto critic referred to LACELLE as the NEON MATISSE of Canada due to her colourful, neon-like imagery. Self taught she has been making art all her adult life winning many awards, hanging in several galleries/art places in Canada and the U.S. with sales on line and around the world.

Former professor EVANCHUCK now devotes his time to filmmaking, photography, writing, curating. He has produced several feature films, scripts, books as well as many docs over his ongoing career.

The abandoned homes represented in MARVELOUS REALISM were shot last year in New Brunswick.

Angry square snowman on Robinson

Sandy Hill hockey rink

Teddy Bear

'Chanel Teddy' ORIGINAL gouache Helene Lacelle 2002

I was never good at making people look like people. I was a little better at making teddy bears sort of look like teddy bears. Male or female, dressed or naked, a teddy bear will look at you straight in the eyes and never lie. Think about it for a minute, teddy bears are like fluffy saints

Strathcona Heights Community Garden

Another day at the DND

Snow on the canal

Motel pools closed for the season - Niagara Falls, Canada

Niagara Falls, Canada -  pools closed for the season.

New Collage

Marvelous Realism Canada Show is up!

1- unloading MARVELOUS REALISM to set up at Cafe Nostalgica
2- Holding up a table top I painted last week for future auction for CHEO
3/4 - carrying  in large canvas  'You Never Bring Me Flowers'

Cafe Nostalgica - 601 Cumberland St. Ottawa University
Show runs until Jan 31, 2016

Happy New Year