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Dawson Creek Art Gallery Permanent Collection

G and H Creations

Welcome to Gordon and Holly's website. Both visual artists in Western Canada

Exploring an Abandoned Farm House

Acrylic on Canvas

18"X24"

Our Team.

Gordon's artistic Statement

The people and prairie art I’ve done uses my rural roots with all those visual memories that go with it in a humorous look at the rural west. The artwork is sculptures and two-dimensional pieces combining images of people places and scenes of Western Canada in a mixture of traditional and non-traditional mediums. I take little pieces of a topic, the people or the artifacts they produced or their environments, and combine these images in a way that I hope is creative and interesting.

In the organic metallic pieces I am using the metalic components in an organic way. I like the contrast of metalic with other textures that I use to create these pieces.

I like metamorphic sculptures. In the From the Trees series I have been having figurative forms developing from or breaking free from tree-like shapes. It’s fun with slabs using contrasting textures.

Holly's Artistic Statement;

My subject matter is primarily landscape, and people. I like to capture the character of a person, or relationships within the environment. I paint my impression of the people, places, and things around me. I work from my own photographs because of my busy lifestyle and the detail I like to put in my pieces. My paintings are not precise copies; they’re realistic, yet painterly. The combination of composition, color, and texture, influence what I choose to paint.

This is us. Gordon Perret: sculptor, painter mixed media artist. Holly Perret, primarily a painter in acrylics and oils

Exhibits

Gordon's

Profiles Art Gallery of St. Albert, St Albert Alberta, Vessels.

A Group show of sculpture and paintings with Suzette Knudsen, Mary Swain, Mindy Andrews, Pierre Bataillard and Candace Ring. Dec 3rd, 2010 to Jan 29th 2011.

Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek. Illustrated Thoughts and Memories of the West. A show of artwork by Holly and Gordon Perret . May to June 2006

The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie. (traveling exhibit) Teachers as Artists.

A show of art by artists who are teachers in the Grande Prairie School District

May 2006-2009

Sponsored by The Prairie Gallery, Garden Treasures, an interactive show of Art based on plant life and growth by selected Alberta Artists May 1- Aug29, 2004

The Prairie Art Gallery Grande Prairie, Prairie Preserves and Other Curiosities

One-man show of recent work April 5-May 11, 2003.

Center for Creative Arts, Grande Prairie, Alberta. A show of Western Art

(group show of various artists of the region using a western theme ) Jul-Aug 2003

Red Deer and Dist Museum , Red Deer ,Impressions From the Northwest

Oct 5 to Nov. 22nd, 1998 with Holly Perret

The Prairie Art Gallery Grande Prairie, Resurfacing, Grande Prairie Collects. A juried show of pieces from private collections in the community. Nov. -Dec 2002

.(Instructors exhibit, group show) Dec 2002
Tea and Mistletoe Center for Creative Arts, Grande Prairie, Alberta

Prairie Gallery Annual Members Exhibition and Sale. 1980 to 2007 in Nov./Dec.; Have shown work in this show every year they have had it except 1988 and 2002 until 2010.

Sponsored by The Prairie Gallery, Prairie Vernacular, a traveling show of Modern Western Rural Art by selected Alberta Artists 1997-99

Bits of Western Life, May 23 to July 3, 1996 . A show of my sculptures and mixed media reliefs at the Bowman Arts Center, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Scenes from the Rural West, March 15 to April 2nd, 1995.A show of my sculptures and mixed media reliefs at the Artworks Gallery , Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Grassroots; Rural & Urban Living, July 17 to Sept. 7, 1992; Show of Sculptures and Relief paintings by Gordon Perret, Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie Alberta.

Pieces of the West, Nov. 1991; Show of sculptures and relief paintings by Gordon Perret. Fairview Arts Center, Fairview, AB.

Marks of Distinction, Recent Acquisitions of the Alberta Art Foundation; June 3-July 10,1991, Beaver House Exhibition Space. Nov. 16 - Dec.8 Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery. Group show of work purchased by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Discovery in the Marsh shown.)

Jeopardy; Our Lives Are in Danger, Aug. 1990; Invitational show of artwork about pollution and the environment at The Prairie Gallery in Grande Prairie.

Moose By Mail, Jul./Aug. 1989; Invitational show of artwork using the moose as the subject. This show then went on tour across Canada. Sponsored by the Prairie Gallery

People and Places, March,1988; Show of sculptures by Gordon Perret and paintings by Peter VanTeisenhausen, at The Prairie Gallery.

Clay In the Windows, May 1988: Alberta Potters Association show of ceramic pottery and sculpture at various places in downtown Calgary

The Works; 88, 89, 91, July of 1988,89&91 ; Show of sculptures sponsored by The Sculptors Association of Alberta as part of the Arts Festival in Edmonton AB.

Relationships, June 1983: Group show by Gordon and Holly Perret, Glenda Haughian and Barbara C. Baer. Prairie Gallery.

Sculpture and Painting By Gordon and Holly Perret, Feb.1979, at The Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie.

B.F.A. Graduates Show, April , 1975 at U. of C. Gallery, then at Bow Valley Square.

Holly's

Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek. Illustrated Thoughts and Memories of the West.

A show of artwork by Holly and Gordon Perret . May to June 2006

Centre for Creative Arts , Grande Prairie Alta

Show of Western Art by local artists

July and August 2003

Centre for Creative Arts , Grande Prairie Alta

Tea and Mistletoe

Group show of Art instructers

December2002

In the Trees

Exhibition of paintings by Holly Perret

Centre for Creative Arts

November 1 to November 30 , 1999 ( Extended to Through Dec.)

Impressions from the Northwest

Exhibition of works by Holly and Gordon Perret

Red Deer and District Museum

October 25 to November 22, 1998

Out in The West: Two Views (Open Studio)

Exhibition of paintings, sculptures and reliefs by Gordon and Holly Perret

Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie,

April 24th to June 8th, 1997

Out in the Country; What Was and Is