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The Nurturing Darkness presents the art of Carol Bajen-Gahm as she meditates on the root cellars of Newfoundland. It consists of twenty-two mixed media abstract paintings in which she uses encaustic and oil paints, seaweed prints, netting, photo transfers and other media to distill the many aspects of these dark but nurturing underground structures still extant in many Newfoundland outports. She explores their dark, confined spaces that create an indifference to time and space and generate a fear that leads to a deeper understanding. Her geologic processes of deposition and erosion (painting and scraping) create to a balance between form and color; shape and texture that engenders a deep sense of seeing. Carol and her studio are literally immersed in the wild surroundings of the North Atlantic and, as a consequence, Carol's art is steeped in the soul of Newfoundland.

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Carol Bajen-Gahm is an artist from Massachusetts who first came to Newfoundland in 2002 for a painting residency. In 2003, she and her husband, Rex Passion, affected by the light, landscape, and people of Newfoundland, bought a house and studio on the ocean in Torbay, just outside the capital city of St. John's. Carol has a master's degree in jazz composition and has created installations combining the mediums of music and art. She now uses mixed media to create paintings with a dense abstract structure as a meditation on the complexity of our world and the beauty of her surroundings. Between 2003 and 2006 she attended residencies in Costa Rica and Dorland Mountain in California. In 2006 she received a Joan Mitchell grant to attend the Santa Fe Institute of Art. She went back to Costa Rica in January of 2016, and in that fall she attended the Two Rooms Residency at Duntara, an outport community on the Bonavista peninsula of Newfoundland. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally, and she is represented by the Christina Parker Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the Sivarulrasa Gallery in Almonte, Ontario. Carol Bajen-Gahm www.bajengahm.com Emily Deming is a freelance writer who came back to writing mid-life after an academic and professional career in earth and planetary sciences and the oil industry. While switching careers, she immigrated, started a family and suffered personal losses. She understands upheaval, does not silo science from art, almost never panics, and finds the most humour in the things she takes the most seriously. She has written for CBC, Atlantic Business Magazine, The Scope, East Coast Living, and others about people, food, drink, arts, culture and travel and covered/poked fun at City Hall with her weekly column Notes from the Rafters at The overcast.ca. Her work covering the Snelgrove Trial in 2017 led to an opportunity to work with Documentarian Chris Brookes from Battery Radio on a GPS based podcast App Consent: walk the walk which won international acclaim.

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