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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
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Erin J Coholan (she/her)
Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts
Creative Coordinator
647-244-4244
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.
Heather Smiley page 8
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.
Robert Pointer
