Lumberjack Festival at the White Fathers Sugar Bush in Vanier

Behind St-Paul's University

theOLD theNEW theMARVELOUS - LIFE OF PIE - April 1 - 30, 2016

theOLD-theNEW-theMARVELOUS art display by HELENE LACELLE and PETER EVANCHUCK at LIFEofPIE

LACELLE (aka NEONMATISSE ) highlights a decade of her art from theOLD folksie art of LadiesINwaiting to theNEW collages of mapping a history of a family-a time-a generation to theMARVELOUS REALISM of ABANDONED where the landscape images of PETER EVANCHUCK form the basis of the scenes that with LACELLES marvelous ingenuity, skills and art become an eerie exploration of style they call MARVELOUS REALISM based on Magic Realism - simply put: 'taking usual and making unusual'

The landscape REALISM images were shot by Evanchuck in the Maritimes last year before re-occuring cancer/3 surgeries slowed him down. The MARVELOUS art work was performed/imagined by LACELLE in Ottawa using modern and traditional techniques

This show uses the full restaurant with MARVEOUS REALISM on the walls in the main room of The LIFEofPIE as well as on the walls in the LOO ( not the LOUVRE but the LOO mmm? )

LACELLE and EVANCHUCK display their creative works in every way they can imagine from street walls on buildings, to alleys in Montreal, to LOO's (washroom walls), the sidewalk beside Metro, the cancer clinic at the General, to the entrance to Ottawa University, to galleries from coast to coast to coast .... avoiding pretention, nonsense, and gobblegook ...

Drop into the LIFEofPIE on 1134 BANK at Hopewell any day u can, check out the art walls , check out the LOO, and settle into a nice cup of Java and a sweet piece of Pie .. now that's LIFEatPIE

ART up for viewing at LIFEofPIE ... 01APRIL16 ( the day of fools ) from morning to evening every day to end of April16

Helene & Michelle set up new art exhibition at LIFE of PIE

Dawn Collings, Bhat Boy & Peter Evanchuck

 Michelle. Bhat Boy & Helene - show all set up!

Cummings Island

Easter Sunday on Rue Carillon

Good Friday in Vanier

Last Evening

Palm Sunday on Cumberland St.

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