The last place I would have expected to meet a Mount Allison University Fine Arts alumni from the tiny town of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada was at an intimate gathering to honor a dear friend about to embark on an overseas trip and well known NYC painter, Joanne Greenbaum.Joanne's paintings are directly below and a link to her last show in NYC is here
http://www.damelioterras.com/exhibition.html?id=57 . (Joanne is leaving for Berlin for a 7-month European adventure of art viewing, travel and painting with her pup Sheeba in tow).
But half way through a long conversation with another guest (the talented, smart and humorous artist, Louise Belcourt) that started with health care reform in the US and segued to Canada's health care, which led her to say, "I'm Canadian" and me to say "Me too." Then I mentioned I was headed to Toronto for a museum and gallery opening of my dad's in a couple of weeks. She asked "Who is your dad"? I said, "Tom Forrestall", and she said oooohh! Then to our conversation companion, "Her father is a really famous Canadian painter". Then she said to me, I went to school with your brother (William Forrestall). I said "Really?" Then, "wow, I said,I went to Mt Allison for a year too." It's a wee small world we live in. And when you get into certain worlds it gets smaller and smaller. So now, of course, Louise and I are hooked up internet-wise with plans to meet up. Louise's work is interestingly landscape-as-a-starting-point based.
Some of her very early work is quite representational. One of her paintings is at right and to take a look at more of her work check out her website here:
http://louisebelcourt.net/
Louise lives part of the year in a house she owns in Quebec, and the rest of the year in Brooklyn , NY and I am very excited to see her upcoming show at Jeff Bailey gallery in Chelsea later this spring
http://www.baileygallery.com/artists_02.cfm?fid=91
--Monica Forrestall
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