Manitoba artist Joanne Gullachsen’s paintings are proof that there is beauty in the simplest acts of day-to-day life.<\/p>\n
In her visiting art show, Memories, <\/em>she displays vibrantly depicted memories from her childhood on a Gimli, Manitoba dairy farm. “It was a wonderful, peaceful, predictable time,” she says. “There was time for everyone to enjoy the animals and the land, there was a lot of freedom.” In an aside, she added that people may remember her hometown for the ‘Gimli Glider’ incident, when an Air Canada 767 ran out of fuel mid-flight and glided to a safe landing at the town’s former Royal Canadian Air Force base.<\/p>\n The subjects in her paintings are primarily her family \u2013 herself, her four sisters, her parents and her grandmother \u2013 along with animals from their farm. Gullachsen relied on memory rather than photographs to capture those childhood scenes. “It’s liberating to paint that way. I can do what I want.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t