TEA, TOUR & TEXTILES
(Age 50+)
Tuesday, October 20th | 10:30am – 12:30pm
By donation. Registration required. Supplies and refreshments provided.
Treat yourself to a private guided tour of Landon Mackenzie: Weather Patterns at the Gallery at Evergreen Arts. This immersive body of work draws viewers into painted worlds shaped by chance, control, and the elemental forces of place. Mackenzie’s richly layered canvases—inspired by riverbeds, tidewaters, and celestial systems—invite close looking and quiet reflection.
After the tour, relax in our scenic lake-side lobby with complimentary tea, coffee, and light refreshments. Then, settle in for a cozy morning of knitting inspired by Mackenzie’s process-driven practice and her use of linen as a responsive, living surface. Bring your own knitting project to work on alongside others, or join our arts specialist to explore simple stitches, textures, and patterns in a relaxed, supportive setting.
Whether you’re an experienced knitter or picking up the needles for the first time, all are welcome to slow down, connect, and create.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Starting in the shallow tidewaters of Cardigan Bay, Prince Edward Island, Landon Mackenzie’s Weather Pattern series (2020–) balances chance and control to envelop the viewer in the artist’s painted worlds. Looking at the dotted sandstone-inspired canvases, you might see a charged nervous system, a celestial body or the microcosm of a riverbed’s speckled surface. The depth of each painting reveals the linen canvas as a site-responsive material that soaks up its environment: saltwater, sunshine, wind, rain, dew and starry nights—all become foundational materials in Mackenzie’s works. Merging paint and weather, the canvases evoke the intimate connection between internal and external landscapes. To begin this bi-coastalproject, Mackenzie first stapled the river-soaked linen to a wooden porch on Prince Edward Island, where she applied a multitude of colours. The artist next rolled and shipped the work like a tapestry to her Vancouver studio, where she responded to the transformed surface. Each of these large paintings was enlivened from its interaction with East Coast summer tides before coalescing in the artist’s West Coast studio.
