OVER UNDER
Featuring Sophie Paskin and Sarah Reesor
Opening Sunday, June 7 | 1–4 pm

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Sophie Paskins and Sarah Reesor both work from instinct, building and reworking in layers.

They don’t begin with a concept or a fixed idea. The work develops through doing. Much is edited, buried, removed, covered, held back, or left unresolved.

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Sarah often uses text in her drawings, fragments that sit alongside a figure, repeated motifs or objects that create dialogue. Sophie’s work suggests a similar dialogue through repeated shapes, occasional figures, and in the way marks are made, using pressure, movement and containment. There is a push and pull between moments that settle while others disrupt, between what holds together and what resists. 

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Over Under reflects this approach of working, building up, taking back and adjusting, the shifting and tension between what sits on the surface and what stays underneath.

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Sophie Paskin

In recent projects, I've been exploring mark-making. Drawing has always been my main focus, but I've also been painting for a number of years. Initially, I worked with non-representational imagery in painting, attempting to blend the mark-making elements from my drawing practice into my painting style.

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Originally from the UK, Sophie has called Nova Scotia home since 2007. A past participant of VANS Mentorship Program, Sophie attempts to find the balance between working full-time as Gallery Director for the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council, and her own studio practice.

 

Sarah Reesor

Reesor’s mixed media practice combines illustration, pattern making, and text. Her work often centres on familiar objects and textile forms, using language as a connective thread between image and thought. Text is presented as partial conversations, at times wry or oblique, introducing a deliberate openness and sense of fragmentation that invites interpretation.