Acrylic on gallery canvas.
30x30"
The Red Admiral became a favourite butterfly the moment I met 'him'. Visiting with us at the picnic table beside the native meadow, he lingered on my bare leg.
This native butterfly searches for and sips on native plants. You will see him if you plant native plants in your garden.
The origin of its name 'red admiral' is said to be a corruption of the original 18th-century name 'red admirable'. And here I've thought that it was because the stripes looked military! In any case, it is a beauty!
I've enjoyed painting two works with these admirable butterflies. I have simplified the markings to a degree. It's hard to decide where that line is. The red is pretty unmistakeable even with just a slash of the red-orange.
Our meadow is surrounded by a forest. Because the tree foliage at the meadow edge is munched by deer, a 4 foot high band of darkness surrounds the meadow. I love how this 'browse line' provides an inkiness in which the meadow flowers glow.
The blackness of the admiral butterfly's wings lends to creating a 'lost edge' when placed beside the dark shape of the browse line. And then the white spots glow!
Cheryl Bailey is a Toronto-born Contemporary Landscape artist from Oakville Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). Recently one of her paintings was juried into the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Cheryl has studied with John Leonard RCA at the Etobicoke Art Group studio and at Fleming College Haliburton School of Art and Design (HSAD).
The McMichael Canadian Collection has hosted 5 group exhibitions in which Cheryl participated. In 2019, Cheryl participated for the fifth time in the Ontario Provincial Touring Exhibition "Progressions VIII".
Selected recent exhibitions include
Meadow Sighs, Mountain Highs, a solo exhibition at Niagara Pumphouse May 2024,
Breath.Heart.Spirit OSA 150 years at the Lieutenant Governor’s Suite at Queen’s Park,
Ambient Landscapes (In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Ontario Society Of Artists) at The Art Gallery of Northumberland (2022),
Conversations (In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Ontario Society Of Artists) at The Orillia Museum of Art and History (2022),
2020 TD Thor Wealth Management Juried Exhibition: Quest for the Environment (national),
Artworks Oakville 22nd Open Juried Exhibition (2022).
Cheryl currently serves as a Director on the board of the Ontario Society of Artists.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My paintings express a deeply rooted familial connection to the Canadian countryside. Mountains, rivers, hills, valleys, forests, farmland -- I love them all!
Visual complexity is distilled into carefully choreographed simplicity. Shapes, surface textures, and a limited palette are combined with a powerful and unifying black. A poetic re-interpretation of landscape emerges in my distinctive and authentic voice.
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