Art Exhibition - Place Des Arts Gallery
Paintings,Prints and Drawings
Paintings,Prints and Drawings
Press Release –
Septuagenarian Artist Exhibits at Place Des ArtsJune 7 th – 30 th
Aftersome thirty-five years, septuagenarian artist/art educator, Lynn KennethPecknold will soon return to Coquitlam, the scene of his early teaching beginnings.
LynnKenneth Pecknold is an artist currently located in Port Alberni, B.C. On June 7 th,2012he brings his art home to Coquitlam where he experienced three positions as anArt Teacher from 1966 to 1975 at Como Lake, George Pearkes, and at School BoardOffices as District Art Supervisor. He has recently retired to his first love –“Making Art”.
Hewill be exhibiting 45 current works related to his Paintings, Drawings andPrints. Amongst his art pieces will be a Series of Works, “Reflections”, wherehis co-operative work and research with one of his past senior students relatedto digital design will be evidenced.
LynnKenneth Pecknold is an art educator by trade, but a storyteller by profession.It is his visuals, rather than verses, that rouse and run off the page.
Influencedby the evolving tessellations of M.C. Escher, Pecknold creates mystifying andmesmerizing symmetries both painterly and puzzling. His most recent work dealsin digital realms. Using software he designed, Pecknold applies the principlesof reflection and replication to drawings, paintings and photographs. “Heexplores the shapes and symbols that exist in everything from found objects tonatural elements like driftwood. He is obsessed with the geometry of mirroredand fractal shapes and his pieces reveal unexpected new figures when theseduplicate and opposite reflections take form.”
Bornin Victoria, British Columbia, Pecknold took an early interest in art; whetherit be fashioning his own whistles out of found objects or relishing his firsttaste of First Nations artists’ bold designs on a field trip to a local museum.It wasn’t until his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbiain the early sixties that he discovered his own artistic language. He enrolledwith aims of becoming an architect, but found himself in art history andprintmaking classes, which lead him to a change of major. After graduating witha degree in art education, he went on to show at the Mary Frazee Gallery andAvelles Gallery in Vancouver; and the Mauntauk Club and Eg Gallery in New York,where he also attended the Pratt Institute. In 1969, he became a full-time arteducator and since then has acquired over 35 years of teaching experience.
He hasstudied under a number of well known artists such as Gordon Smith, Bob Steeleand has maintained a close friendship through some 50 years.
Hecurrently resides on Vancouver Island with his wife, Sandra. He retired fromhis teaching in 2007 to continue to follow his dream – creating art. They havethree daughters and three grandchildren.
Septuagenarian Artist Exhibits at Place Des ArtsJune 7 th – 30 th
Aftersome thirty-five years, septuagenarian artist/art educator, Lynn KennethPecknold will soon return to Coquitlam, the scene of his early teaching beginnings.
LynnKenneth Pecknold is an artist currently located in Port Alberni, B.C. On June 7 th,2012he brings his art home to Coquitlam where he experienced three positions as anArt Teacher from 1966 to 1975 at Como Lake, George Pearkes, and at School BoardOffices as District Art Supervisor. He has recently retired to his first love –“Making Art”.
Hewill be exhibiting 45 current works related to his Paintings, Drawings andPrints. Amongst his art pieces will be a Series of Works, “Reflections”, wherehis co-operative work and research with one of his past senior students relatedto digital design will be evidenced.
LynnKenneth Pecknold is an art educator by trade, but a storyteller by profession.It is his visuals, rather than verses, that rouse and run off the page.
Influencedby the evolving tessellations of M.C. Escher, Pecknold creates mystifying andmesmerizing symmetries both painterly and puzzling. His most recent work dealsin digital realms. Using software he designed, Pecknold applies the principlesof reflection and replication to drawings, paintings and photographs. “Heexplores the shapes and symbols that exist in everything from found objects tonatural elements like driftwood. He is obsessed with the geometry of mirroredand fractal shapes and his pieces reveal unexpected new figures when theseduplicate and opposite reflections take form.”
Bornin Victoria, British Columbia, Pecknold took an early interest in art; whetherit be fashioning his own whistles out of found objects or relishing his firsttaste of First Nations artists’ bold designs on a field trip to a local museum.It wasn’t until his undergraduate years at the University of British Columbiain the early sixties that he discovered his own artistic language. He enrolledwith aims of becoming an architect, but found himself in art history andprintmaking classes, which lead him to a change of major. After graduating witha degree in art education, he went on to show at the Mary Frazee Gallery andAvelles Gallery in Vancouver; and the Mauntauk Club and Eg Gallery in New York,where he also attended the Pratt Institute. In 1969, he became a full-time arteducator and since then has acquired over 35 years of teaching experience.
He hasstudied under a number of well known artists such as Gordon Smith, Bob Steeleand has maintained a close friendship through some 50 years.
Hecurrently resides on Vancouver Island with his wife, Sandra. He retired fromhis teaching in 2007 to continue to follow his dream – creating art. They havethree daughters and three grandchildren.
