Jordan Art Gallery

Greta was born and lived her early childhood in the Fiji Islands and has family roots in the Pacific Island of Samoa and Scandinavia. She spent her adolescent years in New Zealand where she graduated from Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University. She has made Canada her home for 40 years and is an active member of SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates).

The challenge for me is to create work that will spark the psyche, let the spirit breathe, sing and celebrate by experiencing great space, time and liberation. In exploring life and spirit, I am fascinated by the potential dynamics of space, the creative expressiveness of colour and the suggestion of the rhythms in time.

The recovery of beauty is of primary concern in Langbroek's art works. We encounter a vast amount of fragmentation and brokenness. Langbroek assembles objects, materials, paint and images using aesthetic and cultural implications that can tell our story of suffering and joy, brokenness and wholeness, ugliness and beauty intertwined in a kind of reconciliation of an aesthetic of beauty.

With an eye for colour, light, patterns, textures and composition, Darrell's awarding-winning art strives to expose hidden beauty in the familiar. Working in oil and inspired by the world around him, Darrell's favourite subjects include local land and seascapes. He also has a keen interest in portraiture and figurative work.

Deteriorating architecture, eroded monuments, derelict machinery, lichen covered stone, ruins, fossils, steps worn by a million feet. History speaks to me. That pottery is an ancient art form draws me. It seems the most suitable medium for exploring my creativity. Wood-firing is a direct link to thousands of years of my forerunners.