Robert Pointer-Heather Smiley: Horizontal/Vertical

B L U E M O U N T A I N F O U N D A T I O N F O R T H E A R T S MARCH 8 - APRIL 1, 2023 EXHIBITIONCATALOG

H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E

ROBERT POINTER HEATHER SMILEY

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. —

Frank Lloyd Wright

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HORIZONTAL-VERTICAL: Exploring The Landscape

The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts has a mandate to inspire. Located in Collingwood, Ontario, artists are constantly moved by the landscape of the South Georgian Bay region in which we are surrounded. The BMFA provides a space for artists to share their visions, interpretations, and appreciation for our natural world. Grey-Simcoe is particularly inspiring, containing the world's largest freshwater archipelago, geological rock form, natural escarpment, stretching beaches, vast fields and valleys. This ever-changing environment invites new artistic perspectives with each new season. Artists Robert Pointer and Heather Smiley share their powerful viewpoints of our landscape through colour, light, texture, and movement in visionary pieces pulling the viewers into their line of sight. The pair create a diversified and refined look at the landscape as it exists- vertical and horizontal as they explore the unique biosphere through visual arts. This show is the first of its kind at the Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts as they begin offering a space for their members to curate their own group shows.

Visit 65 Simcoe St. to see the show in its entirety from March 8th to April 1st. www.bmfa.on.ca

Erin J Coholan (she/her) Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts Creative Coordinator

647-244-4244

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Robert Pointer page 5

Robert Pointer is a Canadian artist, educator, and musician working in Grey County. A figurative artist, he primarily creates intimate paintings from observation or relating to direct personal experience in acrylic, or oil on canvas. The Escarpment Series arose from an exploration of the human figure in the landscape and the story-telling tradition of the arts. He has since found meaning in these works as a metaphor representing society's struggle through the unknown of the early years of the pandemic.

Robert Pointer is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts.

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Collingwood based artist Heather Smiley has been honing her painting skills since retiring from the world of work in 2019. She takes her inspiration from the beauty of water, land and sky anywhere, but looks first to the landscape on her doorstep: the rural landscape of Simcoe and Grey Counties, the Blue Mountain area and northern Ontario. Heather has exhibited primarily at Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts in Collingwood and also was awarded “Best Painting” in the 2022 Newmarket Juried Art Show.

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Robert Pointer

On Old Baldy Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 40 $1200 from

The Climb Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30 $1200 From

a photo by Jesse Wong

a photo by Adam Reeve

The Ledge Acrylic on Linen 27.5 x 24 $700 from a

Gone Fishing Acrylic on Canvas 18 x 24 $400 B M F A H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E P O I N T E R - S M I L E Y

photo by Jesse Wong

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20.75

$360

$300

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30

24

30

Reaches For The Top Acrylic on Panel

x 18

from a

photo by Jesse Wong

The Gap Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 12

from a photo by Jesse Wong

On The Rope: Lion s Head

on Canvas

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$750 from a

photo by Zak

Erb Into The Dark Acrylic on Canvas

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$1000 from a photo by Zak Erb

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Robert Pointer

On the Edge Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 20 $300 Robert Pointer Eli on Metcalfe Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 24 $750

Rolling Into Meaford Acrylic on Canvas 30 x 24 $750 Granite Bay Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 30 $750 B M F A H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E P O I N T E R - S M I L E Y

from a photo by Jenn Scace

B M F A H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E P O I N T E R - S M I L E Y Squall West of Meaford Oil on Canvas 22 x 14 $250 Heather Smiley Glen Huron Winter Morning Oil on Canvas 30 x 30 $300 Transcanada, East of Nipigon Oil on Canvas 46 x 36 $500 The Snowshoe Trail Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 $500

B M F A H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E P O I N T E R - S M I L E Y On Corn Harvest, Clearview Oil on Canvas 16 x 28 $250 Heather Smiley The Grain Wagons Oil on Canvas 30 x 24 $180 Beaver River, Access Point 2 Oil on Canvas 18 x 18 $230 Clearview Sideroad Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 $250

B M F A H O R I Z O N T A L / V E R T I C A L : E X P L O R I N G T H E L A N D S C A P E P O I N T E R - S M I L E Y The Pond on the 13th Line Oil

Canvas 18 x 18 $230

west of Thunder Bay Oil on Canvas 18 x 18 $180

on

Heather Smiley Transcanada,

Contact Information

Heather Smiley

hsmiley57@gmail.com

705.441.1548

Instagram: heathersmileyart

Robert Pointer

robertgpointer@gmail.com

519.922.1298

website: robertpointer.ca

Blue Mountain Foundation For The Arts

65 Simcoe St, Studio 1

Collingwood, ON L9Y 1H7

705.445.3430

website: bmfa.on.ca

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