Opening: Joan Fenicle, Painter: In the Spirit of Haiku
Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas invites the public to a reception on June 13, 1-3 to pm meet Painter, Joan Fenicle and talk about her show: In the Spirit of Haiku, Exhibit runs from June 2-28.
The haiku in this exhibit are created in oil paint not words. Inspired by Joan’s decades of wandering the caminos and callejones of New Mexico and Colorado, they are expressions of memorable personal experiences.
Joan grew up a free-range child in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where her mother and grandmother had been born in the high mountain mining camps. She has called New Mexico home since the 1970s. She loves wandering back roads, capturing villages and vistas in pixels and paint – always looking for the stories. An ancient tree, a village chapel, an old truck, abandoned buildings or just a dramatic cloud formation catch her eye and become part of the image collection that holds negatives, slides and digital images. Bits and pieces of various images may end up in the final painting.
“A haiku is created from two ingredients: an experience and the expression of that experience in words after it has passed through the poet’s heart.” (from Haiku: A Poet’s Guide by Lee Gurga.)
The First Sunday ARTScrawl on June 7 will include a meet the artist segment 11 am to 1 pm as Joan shares some of the stories behind these paintings, both discoveries and favorite places that have been revisited many times.
Wild Hearts Gallery is an artists’ collective, supported by 14 local artists. Located at 221-B State Highway 165, the gallery is open Tuesday-Friday from 10:00 am. to 4:00 pm., Saturday-Sunday from 10:00 am. to 2:00 pm. Take a visual tour of monthly exhibits in the gallery at wildheartsgallery.com.
