A new exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery opened up this Tuesday and gives a glimpse of one man's art as he painted through the grief of losing his wife and his loneliness during the pandemic.
"I wanted to do it because it was a body of work that'd probably never be seen otherwise. And I was really curious, about just what it would look like. I don't see [each] as an individual painting, I see the whole thing as one painting. It is the summation of an experience that we've all sort of had or will have," he added.
Crawford said when he was able to visit with Reid after Beverly passed, he started seeing this stack of paintings growing on a sideboard. Crawford said he took time to set them up around the gallery in chronological order and include a calendar which shows the days Reid painted, with different colours for one painting that day versus multiple.
"I think there's a real vulnerability in the work here," Crawford added. "They weren't done with a sense of being precious that one day somebody's going look at these or when this would be an exhibition. They were of consequence to him in that moment, because they were the documentation of that moment in time."
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