We are pleased to welcome artist Hashim Hannoon to our Winnipeg Square satellite space for the month of August.

Recently relocated to Winnipeg, distinguished Iraqi painter, Hashim Hannoon, is today faced with the opportunity and the challenge of introducing his work to a Canadian audience.  After experiencing some of the horrors of war, he and his family moved to Jordan, where Hannoon was free to develop himself as an artist.

Wherever he lives, Hannoon seeks to achieve contact with the spiritual existence of a place.  Since his move to Winnipeg, that city has become a subject in his canvases.  He is not, however, concerned with painting a literal portrait of a place, but rather in painting his own relationship to that place.  This process results in abstract images of gentle beauty, which invite the viewer to experience what he has experienced, through the filter of his imagination.  Although born from tragedy of war, the paintings of Hashim Hannoon radiate vitality and optimism.

Click here to view Hashim Hannoon’s profile

We are pleased to announce that artist Meghan Hildebrand will be featured in our Winnipeg Square satellite space for the month of July.

Meghan Hildebrand was born in the Yukon, and went on to study art in Nelson BC, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over the past 10 years, Meghan’s work has changed from simple and squarely structural to what could be described as landscape-exploded.  Local scenery becomes the stage where her personal symbols have come to mingle and converse.  Animal ghosts happily inhabit our ruins.  Trees take root below basements, offering cities to the sky.

Click here to view Meghan’s profile

April, 2010, Acrylic on Canvas, 40″ x 30″
Click here to view an enlarged step-by-step with commentary
Click to view more paintings in progress

June, 2010, Acrylic on Canvas, 18″ x 36″
Click here to view enlarged step-by-step with commentary
Click to view more paintings in progress

Marcelle Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec, in 1924. At the age of seven, she lost her mother, and her father moved the family to the country, hoping the rural environment would be good for his children. Ferron suffered from tuberculosis in early childhood and frequent stays in the hospital forged [...]