Pauline Conley
Airmail
Airmail
mixed media on canvas, 36" × 40"
Al-Forjasold
Al-Forja
mixed media on canvas, 20" × 24"
Harbour
Harbour
mixed media on canvas, 4' × 5'
Jonesy
Jonesy
mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24"
Tartlette
Tartlette
mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24"
Caroline
Caroline
mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24"
Red Lastsold
Red Last
mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24"
Terra Mama
Terra Mama
mixed media on canvas, 24" × 24"
Sugar Whiffsold
Sugar Whiff
mixed media on canvas, 36" × 48"

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Pauline Conley – Artist Biography

Born and raised in Vancouver, Pauline Conley studied fine art and English, and lived on Vancouver Island for several years before moving to Kingston, Ontario.

As a painter she is drawn to the power of the non-representational. In recent years, her images have begun to relax into a sort of representation of the imagined. First, the horizon found its way into her work – the sight line which is the friction point between the elements, and between the known and the unknown. It is a powerful cultural and visual reference point upon which the metaphor of landscape hangs. The horizon eventually became a line in the air, and this line evokes the clothesline, the jet stream, mapped domains, and the ubiquitous bird on a wire. These are the grid lines of our lives – the divisions of space that are as familiar and comforting as the horizon. 

In the very recent past, a deconstruction of the motifs Conley had been working with has taken hold. Her focus has shifted to the grids and patterns themselves as evocative montages of everyday life - both routine and divine.


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