Discover Love and Landscapes in PAMA’s new art gallery exhibitions

This exhibition questions the degree of creative and professional involvement between artist-couples. If you ever wondered about how the personal relationship may factor in the practice of artists who are also lifelong partners, In Love and In Art may be a place to start.

– Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA

I was looking for an exciting way to present work from our permanent collection, and placing the art of artists-couples side by side allowed me to consider their unique practices from a different vantage point and only in the context of an implied artistic connection between the couple.

– Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA

We are excited to be showing at PAMA together for the first time. When you are so close to another artist you share a lot of ideas, while also respecting the other’s space.

– artists Jim and Peggy Reid

We’ve enjoyed a relationship with Peel Art Gallery for almost 40 years, and our work in the PAMA Collection dates to the 1990’s.

– artists Jim and Peggy Reid 

My work embraces the everyday. Objects and places that interact with our daily lives. Re-imagined within my paintings they become mysterious and compelling. Referencing the tradition of landscape and still life paintings, my images engage in a timeless conversation with art and experience.

 – artist Gina Rorai

My paintings use form and colour to create a personal poetry. I can reference the physical world and the abstract with equal curiosity and use improvisation to create new combinations that are unbidden and exciting.

 – artist David Urban 

It has been a great honour to develop an exhibition of work by one of Canada’s most cherished artists, the late David Blackwood. A great printmaker, who has left an indelible mark on the larger Canadian art scene, his work is widely collected, and now PAMA too is home to some of Blackwood’s famous haunting prints of Newfoundland as well as his livelier watercolour paintings of the East Coast.

– Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Art Gallery Curator, PAMA

David Blackwood is one of the most important visual artists in Canadian history. His works are in every major gallery in Canada and abroad except our own Peel Art Gallery (PAMA), a deficiency happily now corrected. I met David in the mid 1960s in his art filled garret as a final year OCA student and I as a final year ophthalmology resident, and stayed in intermittent contact in the decades since, acquiring many works along the way, which were hung in my medical practice office in Brampton to the interest and joy of everyone.  Having retired, it is a pleasure for Carol and me to donate these Blackwoods, to have greater exposure for these marvelous and important prints and watercolours.

 – Donor, Dr. David Dickson

David's importance is as an imaginative, thoughtful artist who in his Lost Party series depicts the relatively recent history of outport Newfoundland: the toughness, the loneliness, the self-sufficiency and joy of the people, and the harshness and beauty of the land. He has captured this in a unique and brilliant manner that informs and captures our attention; the depth of his feeling for Newfoundland and its people is present in every work.

– Donor, Dr. David Dickson