Nancy Morin
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IN MY MOTHER'S GARDEN III
GOOD NIGHT
IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL #6
IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL #2
IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL #7
Born in Cornwall, Ontario, Nancy Morin studied nursing at the University of Ottawa, before moving to Moncton in 1970. She entered the visual arts program at l'Université de Moncton in 1972, graduating in 1976. Morin's artistic sensibility was formed and developed within the Acadian milieu of Moncton. More particularly, it has flourished in a unique professional relationship with Yvon Gallant, with whom she shared studio space since their art student days. Their workspace was a huge classroom at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre. In recent years, Nancy has returned to her home province of Ontario. In terms of her style and distinctive fantastical imagery, Nancy Morin's paintings and prints find most affinity with Marc Chagall. Like the famous Russian artist, she fashions dreamscapes awash in technicolor, although the familiar symbols and characters in her fairy tale settings are consciously developed from a feminine perspective. Among her favorite images leaping horses appear in crimson, yellow, pink, green or blue. Writhing snakes come in colored stripes and polka dots. Apple trees are resplendent in bloom or ripe with fruit. There are fields of exotic flowers and swooping birds of paradise. Stars, the sun and moon are also frequent inhabitants recreated and celebrated in her fertile 'Garden of Eden'. More recently, "Everywoman" has become an important figure entwined within this exotic paradise. Furthermore, the landscape - in its reality - proved to be a domineering force that overtook the intention of her painting during a six-week residency at the Leighton artists' colony at the Banff Centre (1994). Such spontaneous responses to outside stimuli enter into her imaginary viewfields. Not surprisingly, therefore, that the artist describes her work in terms of sequence - "a continuous narrative that evolves quite naturally, one thing to another."
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