EPL Art Gallery

Stanley A. Milner Gallery
August 1 - 29, 2003

Seeing Through Trees
Gerald St. Maur

"What trees have seen and been
is with us always,
rooted in the restless brain
half earth, half sky,
old memories germinating
in each new mind's eye"

This quotation from my poem Seeing Through Trees accurately expresses my relationship with trees in the landscape. Whether we see the light between them or the wisdom they seem to possess, they somehow speak with a primal language about how things are now and yet have always been.

The exhibition is designed to give the viewer room for contemplation... they display the modern use of an ancient technique which has often been regarded as the soul of painting.

Artist's Bio

Gerald St. Maur is an artist and a poet. His first book of poetry, published in 1983, earned critical acclaim while his first play won the Alberta Culture Award for one-acts in the same year. He has written and directed plays for the stage, radio and television, and his poetry has been widely anthologised.

Since 1998, St. Maur has concentrated exclusively on drawings using charcoal, graphite and conte. Highly acclaimed, his work has been exhibited on many occasions and is held in private, corporate and public collections.

He is currently Vice-President of the Alberta Society of Artists and is a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. He is also the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology of tanka "Countless Leaves", recently published by Inkling Press and released on compact disc by Magpie Productions.

For a detailed c.v. visit the Alberta Society of Artists website at www.artists-society.ab.ca under members and their work.

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