PERIVALE—This Saturday from 3 to 5 pm, Perivale Gallery is hosting an opening reception for Willisville photographer Kerry Butler titled ‘Being Here: Views from a Camera’—the first time the gallery has showcased the photographer’s works.
“I was really looking forward to having Kerry’s work in the gallery,” Perivale Gallery proprietor Shannon McMullan said. “I’ve been looking for an artist that really captures the landscape here.”
“Her work is meticulously framed and exudes the spirit of the North,” she added, noting that Ms. Butler’s works are all reasonably priced too.
The photographs include “an awful lot of morning and evening shots, rocks, water and sky—lots and lots of sky,” Ms. McMullan added. “It’s the skies that are so dramatic.”
During the Saturday reception Ms. Butler’s photographs will be installed in Perivale’s large gallery alongside the works of Little Current’s Ivan Wheale.
“Photography allows me to capture a fleeting moment of nature’s beauty and splendour,” Ms. Butler’s artist statement states on the Perivale Gallery website. “I believe that geography grounds us to this place and I like to define that grounding in my photographs. My landscape photographs are a representation of what I have seen and love about the La Cloche/Manitoulin geography.”
The natural light of sunrise, sunset or a mellow lit landscape has an intensity that requires no embellishment from a computer enhancement program. “I return often to the same location with a tripod and wait,” she continues. “I spend the time to be present for the moment that reveals what is special about the colour, shape and essence of the landscape in this part of Northern Ontario.”
Ms. Butler uses a Nikon D80 digital camera with Kodak Endura mounted photographs, each one on an acid-free mat that is custom framed.
Ms. Butler enjoys using photography to capture the beauty and mood of a setting. “I feel I am drawn to capture a view and/or experience through photography. The present moment is not to be hung on to, yet a photograph allows me to celebrate it. Photography allows me to share the special moments of my life in La Cloche Country.”
Her photographs have been selected for juried shows in Sudbury, Manitoulin and La Cloche.
Join Ms, McMullan and Ms. Butler this Saturday, August 16 from 3 to 5 pm at the Perivale Gallery. Light refreshments will be served.