Rowena Dykins
About the artist:
Rowena Dykins lives in the Village of Lakefield, surrounded by lakes and rock. She studied fine art at Concordia University, The School of Art and Design at Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and at John Abbot College.
For many years, Rowena has been interpreting her relationship with the world through abstract painting and installation. The environment around her inspires the colour, atmosphere and formal configurations in the strokes and body of the paint of her work. Using palette knives and brushes to layer acrylic paint on canvases or board, she builds, removes, adds, reworks, scrapes and forms her paintings. Rowena’s bold shapes and marks comment on memory and her relationship with place.
Recently, figures have started to emerge in her paintings. Rowena feels compelled to paint these figures, to observe the personal elements that are starting to emerge with titles such as “My hands are turning into branches, I am a waterfall.” In this, she finds herself and her work in a stage of transition. Rowena continues to explore the development of this work daily in her studio and loves the process of filling a painting full of colour and stories, a key to growing this new work.
Exhibitions
Miguel Hernandez Autorino, Why I Left, 2022, oil on canvas KAST 2022 Selections Exhibition
Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour: Selections
Jul 9, 2022 to Oct 2, 2022
Bronson Smith - All about Art Online Auction 2021
It’s All About ART Online Auction Preview
Oct 21, 2021 to Nov 21, 2021
Installation view of KAST Selections exhibition. From Left: Paul Nabuurs, Bronson Smith, David Hickey
Selections: 37th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Exhibition
Jul 22, 2021 to Oct 3, 2021
Jane LowBeer, String Theory, 2015, monotype on paper, 22" x 28"
It’s All About ARTISTS Preview Exhibition
Oct 8, 2020 to Nov 8, 2020
Left: Leanne Baird, Forest Light, 2020, acrylic on canvas; Right: Victoria Wallace, Silhouette Series: #10, 12, 20, 21, 2019, encaustic, ink and oil pastel
Selections: 36th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Exhibition
Aug 20, 2020 to Nov 8, 2020
Peer Christensen, Park & Lansdowne St., Peterborough, oil on canvas, 2019
Selections: 35th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
Jun 29, 2019 to Sep 22, 2019
Rowena Dykins, Lynn River, 2012
33rd Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour: Selections
Jul 1, 2017 to Sep 24, 2017