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Sophie Hallonquist |
Sophie Hallonquist,
like many seasoned artists, has been following her natural
inclination to produce artwork that is simple in its concept, but
subtle in texture, highly polished in technique and unmistakably
hers. It is in the little thins in life that she mostly excels: the
delicacy of a stalk in a still life; a budding petal adumbrated by
the suffused light of tenuous sunrays; a flower surrounded by an
abstract background as if it were suspended in space, or a lone and
forlorn country house in desolate and hostile land, but inundated
with warmth and feeling by the people inhabiting it. It is the
tapestry of life that captured her interest when she started
painting.
Today Sophie lives in Kamloops, B.C. where she continues to paint
and experiment in mastering new techniques and exploring different
matter. One of the techniques that she has found very congenial is
encaustic. This is the oldest method of painting, which consists of
mixing pure pigment to molten wax and then using the mixture to
create the image and the background. It requires dexterity and
precision to create the image while creating a textured background
to complement it. It is this technique that permits her to create
images suffused in a veiled sunlight where the viewer is forced to
reconstruct the specific subject represented by the artist.
It is this inter-reaction with the viewer that makes Sophie's work
very interesting. It is true that every artist aims to achieve such
engagement, such connection with the public, but the beauty of
Hallonquist's work is that she achieves it with such disarming
simplicity that it makes you wonder.
Sophie was born in 1941 |
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