I was interviewed today for ”Talk of the Town: On Location” to promote my Land of Living Skies exhibit on now at the joe moran gallery. The interview will air on Access 7 on Monday, June 21 and Tuesday, June 22 at 12:00, 4:00, and 10:00 pm. Hope you will tune in and then head out to look at the art in person.
joe moran gallery, Wascana Centre (2900 Wascana Drive, Regina SK)
Show open until Friday, July 2, 2010
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Closed weekends and statutory holidays
We just got back from an utterly fantastic whirlwind trip. Kevin (hereafter known as “Kevin the Amazing”) took me on a road trip south to Yellowstone National Park, north to Calgary, west into the Rockies, north to Jasper via the Icefield Highway, east over to Hinton, and then south again down to Regina. Between two cameras (my faithful Panasonic Lumix FZ20 and Kevin’s shiny new Canon Powershot SX20) we took over 600 photos. I’m positively itching with delight at the thought of all the scratchboards that exist in those photos!
Here’s one example of a photo that is destined to become a scratchboard in the near future:
Akela: Grey Wolf at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center, West Yellowstone. Photograph, 5 x 7 in. Copyright 2010, Tania Nault.
The Land of Living Skies: An Exhibit of Scratchboard Art by Tania Nault
Opening Reception: Friday, May 28, 2010 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
joe moran gallery, 2900 Wascana Drive, Regina, SK
Show dates: Wednesday, May 19 – Friday, July 2, 2010
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Closed weekends and statutory holidays
Well, it just wouldn’t be my show if I didn’t have some last minute changes:
NEW DATE FOR OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 28th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
joe moran gallery, Wascana Centre (2900 Wascana Drive, Regina SK)
Show Dates: Wednesday, May 19 - Friday, July 2, 2010
Cetus: the Whale. Scratchboard and acrylic, 14 x 11 in. Copyright 2010, Tania Nault.
The constellation Cetus is based on mythology of a giant sea monster and is located in a section of the sky associated with other “watery” constellations such as Picses, the fishes, and Aquarius, the water-bearer. In Greek and Roman mythology, sea monsters figured in the tales of both mythical heroes Heracles and Perseus.
According to the myth, Poseidon the sea god became very angry when Queen Cassiopeia dared to compare her own beauty to that of the Neriads, Poseidon’s daughters. As punishment for the slight, Poseidon sent Cetus the sea monster to destroy the kingdom. Acting on the advice of an oracle who told them their kingdom could be saved if they sacrificed their daughter to the monster, the king and queen tied their daughter Andromeda to a rock on the coast. Perseus killed Cetus, freed Andromeda, and married her.
In depictions of the constellation as a sea monster, Cetus is usually shown with its head at the top of the constellation and the body ends in a fishy-serpent tail. However, “Cetus” is the root of the word “cetacean” and means “whale” in Latin. The constellation reminded me more of the shape of a whale: tail up and head down, flipper extended - like a humpback whale, which is how I chose to depict it.
