Award Of Excellence Winner - Elayne Windsor
Where the Light Gets by Elayne Windsor
Where the Light Gets In is a decollage. It was created by adhering map pieces to a sheet of Masonite. After drying, the paper was removed. The process itself speaks to the continuous removal and manipulation of landscape. Landscape is fluid, continuously being built up and torn down through climate, human, animal, or war actions.
The piece also reflects a new vision of landscape, one that is both vertical and horizontal. Drone and satellite technology have given us new horizontal perspectives that points to the fragmentation of our modern landscape.
About The Artist - Elayne Windsor
Elayne Windsor is an award-winning collage artist based in the Kawartha Lakes. She is the Meeting and Events chair of our local “Kawartha Arts Network “(KAN) as well as an elected member of the “Ontario Society of Artists” (OSA) and the “Colour and Form Society” (CFS).
Elayne is a recently retired primary school teacher who made the move to a full time Art career in 2016. Throughout her teaching career Elayne created collage, realizing that the thinking developed while creating collages complimented and enhanced her teaching. Collage helped to develop creative thinking and problem solving, organization, perseverance, confidence, initiative, focus, risk taking, critical thinking, and observation skills.
Elayne has participated in several group shows winning awards at: “Reflections on the Watershed of Time” in 2021, “The Gallery of Northumberland” in 2020, “The Newmarket Juried Art Show” 2019 and 2020, “Scugog Art Centre Juried Art Show” 2020, “The Ontario Society of Artist Juried Show” in 2019, and “The Uxbridge Celebration of the Arts” 2018. She recently had work exhibited the “The Sebastopol Centre for the Arts” in California.
Elayne might say that she is always creating, but when not in her studio she can be found out hiking with her camera, working in her garden, reading, or observing the habits of the many birds the Kawarthas.
