Carmel Brennan, B.A., B.Ed., OSA
Born in Birmingham, England, Carmel Brennan has been a professional artist since the early 1970’s. She was a teacher of Visual Arts for over 30 years and involves herself in various arts organizations and societies. She is currently President of the Ontario Society of Artists. Carmel curated three major exhibitions of the Uxbridge Artist Collective from 2009 to 2012, called Work from Heart Mind & Hand, and received an Ontario Arts Council grant for a catalogue on this same project.
Carmel is very active exhibiting her own photography, painting & printmaking, in commercial and public galleries.
Carmel Brennan’s studio and residence in Sunderland, Ontario, is open to visitors annually, on the third weekend of September, as part of the Uxbridge Studio Tour.
Artist Statement:
“Whether it be through photography, painting or writing, I am always exploring. I am excited with the directions I take and I am happy when I’m actively involved. And I am always learning new perspectives, absorbing new ideas.
In my photography I search through the viewfinder, feeling the textures around me, sensing and capturing the light.
My approach is traditional, whether it be through straight photography with film or with digital. I shoot and shoot and shoot. There is no manipulation, cropping or changes in my printed work. All images are full frame. Images may be repeated within the same framework to emphasize the effect.
Certain perspectives haunt me.” Carmel Brennan
***For notes from Walking the Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2011 see, my Blogroll in the Menu Bar!
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Surrounded by a few members of the OSA at the Opening of 'Gifted'
Rui Pimenta & Carmel Brennan with their pARTners Collaboration, “Shedding Myself”