Not Just A Snapshot: The Thompson Drainage Through Field

Not Just A Snapshot: The Thompson Drainage Through Field by Lyn Baldwin
Journal Art, Pen, Ink, Watercolour in Bound Journals
Showing: January 9th to February 1st
Opening Reception: Friday, January 10th, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm

Every landscape is storied and we all come to know these stories in our own way. Natural history field journals, with their easy confluence of art and science, promote a multi-layered conversation with the land. Within the journal format (bound in a book or spread across a full sheet of paper) watercolor paintings erupt between lines of handwritten text, poetry jostles for space alongside natural history observations, and “to do” lists languish beside sightings of returning songbirds. Too often overlooked, the Thompson Drainage runs rich with the stories of a living, breathing world. In this exhibit, field journal art documents and celebrates the natural history we can find just beyond our backyards.

About Lyn Baldwin
Lyn Baldwin has been telling stories about the natural world in her illustrated field journals for nearly twenty years. Her journals have been exhibited in local libraries, university art galleries, and natural history museums as well as excerpts published in literary journals such as Terrain.org, Cirque and Orion Afield. Today, Lyn teaches botany and ecology at Thompson Rivers University where she emphasizes the contribution that natural history field journaling can make to our understanding of the natural world

Gallery Hours and Location
Kamloops Arts Council MAIN GALLERY, 7 Seymour Street West
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 4pm