North Battleford artist Marjory Fisher's show runs until April 23 at the Chapel Gallery. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

By Angela Brown

Woolgathering

Artist Marjory Fisher brings creative muse to gallery show

Apr 3, 2023 | 12:03 PM

North Battleford artist Marjory Fisher discussed her work during a reception for her new show “Woolgathering” at the Chapel Gallery Saturday.

The exhibition features a collection of mainly gouache and oil colour paintings on canvas, focusing on the beauty of nature, home life, and her love of all animals, including the great Viking sheep from her imagination.

“I like sculptural, beautiful animals with personality,” Fisher told battlefordsNOW of her pieces.

On the title of the show, she explained the habit of “woolgathering,” meaning to daydream or to imagine, is something that would occupy her thoughts when she was a child, and later helped her conceptualize projects, and coloured her world in her work as an artist.

One of the many paintings from the show by artist Marjory Fisher. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)

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City of North Battleford curator and manager of galleries, Leah Garven, said she especially appreciates the delicate sense of whimsy and a touch of nostalgia brought to life in Fisher’s pieces.

When Fisher isn’t painting, she likes to write children’s stories, further feeding her imagination.

Over the course of her life, Fisher has lived in five different provinces and taught children at the School for the Deaf in Saskatoon.

She also has experience giving art classes through the city’s Parks and Recreation Dept.

A fascination for the gentle beauty in life and nature inspires her as an artist.

“I’m excited about everything, and just about want to paint everything,” she said of the joy she finds in her craft.

Fisher’s show reflects her work over a roughly two-year period, during the pandemic.

“Everything was very serious in the world, and I just went into my imagination and picked happy, colourful [scenes], with lots of animals, and plants,” she said.

Growing up in the Battlefords, Fisher studied art and learned the fundamentals. She then went on to develop her own style of expression, to find her voice as a divergent artist.

“You have to have the rules before you can break them,” she said.

Woolgathering runs until April 23.

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