“Atavistica” is the name of the property where artists Jim Christy and Virginia Dixon can be found. Their 1830s stone farmhouse is situated on 100 acres mid-way between Stirling and Madoc. Their studios are open for your visit from May 15 through to Thanksgiving weekend.
Jim Christy uses whatever medium presents itself: paint, wood, stone, glass, rocks, metal, sometimes separately, occasionally all together. He has painted on canvas and cereal boxes, sculpted with driftwood and automobile parts. He believes that in art everything is possible.
The self-taught artist Christy’s work has been displayed in Japan and Mexico, Germany and Russia as well as in Canada. In art he believes in the gamble and the gambol.
Read moreabout Jim Christy “Man of Many Tastes” in Country Roads Hastings County Magazine; Fall 2010! http://countryroadshastings.ca/pastIssues/CR10-03.pdf
Website: www.jimchristyoutsiderart.com
Virginia Dixon is a Magic-Surrealist. Her images mix the familiar with the imagined, the objects from her surroundings – cows in the field, a garden sculpture, a marionette in her studio – acquiring a heightened reality within the logic of their painted world. There are no fixed narratives in these works rather suspended moments extending towards an eternal.
Virginia was born and raised in Montreal, earning a BFA from Concordia University. She moved to Toronto continuing to paint while raising a family and pursuing her formal education with a MFA in Visual Arts, Norwich University, Vermont. She maintains a second studio in Toronto and recent exhibits were held at the Hittite Gallery inToronto, the Flesherton Art Gallery and Gallery ArtPlus in Belleville.
Website: www.virginiadixon.ca
Contact:
1081 Sarles Road, Stirling, ON
613.395.1183
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Hours:
The studios are open weekends at Noon to 8pm from May 15 through to Thanksgiving weekend. Other times by chance or by appointment. Plese note: Atavistica will not be open for visitors on the June 4-5 weekend due to a wedding.
