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Topiary: Allan Toews
Topiary: Allan Toews

Sun, Jan 01

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Ministry of Casual Living

Topiary: Allan Toews

Themes of gardens, parks, hedges, shrubbery, over the top topiary, greenhouses, memorials, statues, crypts and even cemeteries have been pre- occupying my mind.

Time & Location

Jan 01, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – Jan 08, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Ministry of Casual Living, 780 Blanshard St, Victoria, BC V8W 2H1, Canada

About the event

Themes of gardens, parks, hedges, shrubbery, over the top topiary, greenhouses, memorials, statues, crypts and even cemeteries have been pre- occupying my mind. This is reflected in my recent paintings , where in my attempt to paint something resembling a hedge, something else ultimately emerges, something not quite definable or recognizable. The hedge morphs into a more anthropomorphic or architectural form. The inspiration is always the architectural, geometric, manicured forms of the designed landscape trimmed to perfection with its geometric forms and hard edge curves. So what I am really doing is painting living sculptural forms that dominate the picture plane or composition. Starting off to represent the naturalistic a reductive and imaginary process takes over and the hedge is reduced to simpler shapes and forms.

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