Odile Têtu is an artist from Georgeville, Antigonish County, working in many media, including acrylic painting, watercolour, and etching. Janette Fecteau is a batik artist and poet, also from Georgeville. As neighbours and artists, Odile and Janette embrace life “on the road,” whether travelling close to home or farther afield. In this collaboration, they engage in a visual call-and-response, taking inspiration from each other’s work as they explore images of human and animal movement through the environment, both natural and human-made. This eclectic show includes acrylic paintings, watercolours, etchings, batik, and poetry. Light in its many qualities is everywhere: a driver dodges a pothole under an overcast sky; dogs pause on a snowy road at day’s end; a tropical fish keeps pace, briefly, with a stingray in an underwater sunbeam. Light and shadow intensify life on the road, now obscuring, now illuminating, all our paths.

This exhibition of local artist runs February 14 to March 10, 2012.

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