Art Gallery
Pickett’s Press and Blair Voltz Clarke are pleased to show the work of three contemporary painters, Sara Genn, Lucy Soni and Dan Bennett, in the new showroom space. These three artists embrace the formal elements of artistry while highlighting vibrant colors and lyrical lines resulting in balanced beautiful forms of expression. Just as Pickett’s press stationery is designed to be a customized and sophisticated reflection of its clients, these artists support the vision of a completely unique keepsake that is the exemplification of the highest quality, skill, and artistry. The work creates a salon type atmosphere where one can be inspired and enjoy the process of creating the perfect paper products right here in the showroom.
Sara Genn
Canadian painter Sara Genn studied at York House School in Vancouver and earned a BFA at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Genn sold out her first solo exhibition at the age of 19, and after living in Canada and Europe, she relocated to New York City in 2003. Her thick impasto styled brushwork makes her paintings instantly recognizable and her earth tones and white on white canvases come to life in different lighting. Genn’s paintings have been used by Nissan Infiniti and the Toronto Arts Council and featured in New York Magazine, W, Tatler, Town and Country, The New York Post and others.
Lucy Soni
There are two main themes in British painter, Lucy Soni’s work; the relationship between a child’s mark making and abstraction, as well as the friction between the freedom of childhood expression and the process of reproduction by a trained artist. Soni reproduces her daughters’ drawings by tracing, enlarging and repeating their spontaneous scribbles and gestures into oil paintings. Through her paintings and drawings, Soni aims to unite high art, popular culture and the natural urge to mark make.
Dan Bennett
British painter Dan Bennett has always been influenced by Aboriginal patterns as well as gardens. His passion for varieties of flowers is incorporated in his paintings through color, texture and form. For Bennett, the flowers become ever-changing living sculptures, within which one can hide, play, relax and dream.
