Shannon Belkin: Fleur Illumine

September 5-21, 2002
Opening reception: Thursday September 5, 6-8pm

Shannon's latest body of work continues to explore the intricate interaction between humans and nature and our precarious relationship to the natural world around us. The images feature large flowers and pods in different stages of budding and blooming. She deliberately depicts the subjects in isolation and monumentalized to express, "The beauty of impermanence, the idea that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moment. Impermanence reminds us of our inter-connectedness to everything in the natural world, nothing can exist by itself alone".

Douglas Coupland wrote on Belkin's paintings in her 2001 exhibition "Nature's Prozac" : "...somewhere inside her new body of work she has made the critical connection between humanity and nature - the ability of heightened nature, (expressed within the size and detail of the painting,) to harness, redirect and calm the overloaded mind."

Shannon found her inspiration for this body of work in Wesley Anderson's stunning transparencies of flowers and pods. Anderson's work shares the gallery and the title for this exhibition.