Jennifer Stead

“[My work] unfurls across the panel, revealing a narrative like the story in a novel. It is most often a personal narrative, autobiographical in content that informs and is found in the finished work… The landscapes become maps or barometers of feeling, internalised responses, psychologically defined spaces while simultaneously being reflections on perception, light and form. Looking back over the last 15 years, one can literally trace the path of my peripatetic life in my art. I drive, as we all do, some roads far more frequently than others and the land that borders the trans Canada in Alberta or Highway 7 in Ontario or the route from St. John’s to Conception Bay in Newfoundland have all been primary sources for my landscapes, … [recording] a sense of movement or passage through space. It is the space of memory, recollection and autobiography while being [a particular space].”

Text sourced from Jennifer Kostuik.