Colour in a colourless world: A celebrated artist and Vietnam veteran displays his pandemic project in the Gatineau Hills

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Al Skaw’s 'Unreliable Narrative' exhibition is open from Tuesday to Saturday at the MacLaren House Art Gallery located at 72 Mill Rd. in Wakefield.

At the height of the pandemic, Wakefield, Que. artist Al Skaw worried he’d never again display his work in public.

From Al Skaw’s “Unreliable Narrative” Exhibit, painter Tom Thomson is seen in the Canadian wilderness in the company of a bear Another shows the Group of Seven crowding Thomson’s canoe for a cruise along a rushing river. The son of an Austrian mother and an American father in the U.S. military, Skaw has lived all over the world. He recalls vividly the sensorial splendor of walking into an art studio near his mother’s hometown as a young boy.

"Most of us were anti-Vietnam War, much to the chagrin of the older soldiers. They thought we were traitors, and we were, to that cause, because none of us believed in it.""I did, yeah. But I don’t know anybody who didn’t. If you went to high school in the States during that time, then you would have lost friends in Vietnam."

From Al Skaw’s"Unreliable Narrative" Exhibit at the MacLaren House Art Gallery in Wakefield, Quebec. Tom Thomson stands beside Emily Carr; the iconic artists under the watchful eye of a nearby monkey.

 

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