In her latest project, artist celebrates the beauty of farmlands in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows area.

The Barn Project, running at the Fort Gallery in Fort 91原创 April 4 to 29, features 12 graphite drawings and several acrylic paintings.

Krimmel, who moved to Maple Ridge 11 years ago, says the landscape of the farmlands along the Alouette River are soothing to her, particularly the many barns she passes when driving from her home to Vancouver.

Over the years she has taken every opportunity to photograph these barns, but has not done anything with the images until now.

鈥淚 kept asking myself where the fascination came from,鈥� Krimmel said in her artist鈥檚 statement. 鈥淲as it that my grandfather had come from farmland in Friesland (Netherlands) and had farmed in northern Manitoba? Perhaps. Or that farm and rural land is being absorbed by the ever-growing pressures of the mega-city? And what was I going to portray?

鈥淐ould it simply be the way light played on the barns, morning, noon and night, changing the geometry architecture, emblazoning the surface and deepening the shadows?鈥�

Krimmel says the barns are drawn in a realistic way, and many of them are based off photos taken so long ago, she鈥檚 forgotten where they were.

鈥淚t seems a pity to me that some barns are being modified into housing and some are being torn down,鈥� Krimmel said. 鈥淭hat natural disintegration of a structure which is no longer maintained can provide some interesting visual modifications to the original.

鈥淚 discovered that there are similarities between local barns, but more surprising, the generations of family farmers have modified, added to, kept up or let go, making each barn a portrait of the needs of that particular farm鈥檚 activities and its intervention in the cultivated landscape.鈥�

An opening reception for The Barn Project will take place at the Fort Gallery, 9048 Glover Rd., on April 8 from 2 to 4 p.m.

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