Peggy Ann Turner

My art is about what I feel about what I see. Working in acrylic paint, pencil, and found papers, I create my figurative/abstract collage paintings through an intuitive process of layering, step by step, piece by piece, my work leads me. I respond like a dancer. I have learned to improvise and trust with no expectations. While creating a work, I’ll see something that triggers an emotional response inside me and then the art starts to form. I love colour as poets love words.

Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world and desire to express my vision of how I see it and what it all means, I see connections in the push-and-pull juxtapositions of shapes, textures, colour, scale and space. I’ve been a practicing architect for 35 years, which helps direct my work, from the way I see to the underlying structure beneath every composition. To view a painting is to experience the idea of space. I write a Haiku to accompany every piece. Like visual poems each work is a story that reveals itself over time.

McGill University, B. Arch 1980, B. Sc. Arch 1979

Solo Exhibitions:
2015 “Colors of Cancun” Studio 310 -1350 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Qc
2014 “Fresh Impressions” Studio 310 -1350 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal Qc
2014 “Where We Live” Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Qc
2013 “The Art of Performing” MAA Gallery, Montreal Qc
2012 “11+12 Recent Works” MAA Gallery, Montreal, Qc
2012 “Where We Live” Studio Canal, Montreal, Qc
2012 “Interiors” Studio Canal, Montreal, Qc
2011 “Facades” Studio Canal, Montreal, Qc
2011 “Offerings” MAA Gallery, Montreal, Qc

Group Exhibitions:
2015
2015 Miriam Foundation Art Auction, Parisian Laundry, Montreal Qc
2015 “Still Life Revisited”, Beaux Arts des Ameriques, Montreal Qc
2014 “Exhibition in the Workplace”, LEYTON, Montréal Qc
2014 “Views of the City”, Beaux Arts des Ameriques, Montreal Qc
2013 McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre Westmount Qc
2013 Timeraisers, Bonsecour Market, Montreal Qc
2012 McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Centre Westmount Qc
2011 MGH Auxiliary Art Show, Montreal, Qc
2011 CHW Fundraiser, Montreal Qc
2011 Open House, Complex Canal, Montreal Qc
2010 Gallery for Haiti Fundraiser, Westmount Square, Westmount Qc
2010 Open House, Complex Canal, Montreal Qc
2010 Group Show, Gallery Complex Canal, Montrea...