Seeing Through Red

About Seeing Through Red

This contemporary abstract painting is rendered in red and black.

The pure emotion of saturated colour—a fiery red provides a dynamic backdrop for this graphic acrylic painting by Canadian interdisciplinary artist, Lynne Fernie. Expressive dashes of charcoal and black appear to dance across the canvas. Additional markings in turquoise, yellow, white and pink add intriguing detail and contrast. The shapes and characters in this work also appear to reference the elegant simplicity of Japanese calligraphy and primitive figurative imagery.

“(It’s) Painting is a visual language in the same sense as when a poet sits down, and they have some sort of feeling. They know there’s something to be said.” Lynne Fernie

Lynne Fernie is an OCAD honours graduate, a painter and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Fernie has been the recipient of arts and film grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. She has been a jury member of both the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council juries. Her visual art is held in numerous private collections. The talented artist is also a songwriter. Fernie worked with the Parachute Club and wrote the lyrics for their popular Canadian classic, “Rise Up”.