GreyAreas
Kim Atlin
Sarah Kernohan,
Christine Fry
Curated by Paige Bowen
November 29th - January 18th
Opening Reception
November 29th 2 - 4
The quiet calm felt while watching the sun set,
the wary awe when a storm makes the sky grow dark,
the lonely peace looking out into billowing snowfall -
these moments capture the powerful enormity of nature, calling for us to respect its inevitability and consider our scale; tiny in relation to the world.
Kim Atlin
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Artist Statement
Through the disciplined use of horizontal bands of colour, I create a rhythmic fragmentation that explores our perception of time and captures a single moment suspended in time.
Inspired by Grey Bruce counties, this body of work captures a landscape shaped by weather and time, where environmental shifts reveal both resilience and fragility. Fields scattered with barns and forgotten structures stand against the soft, drifting fog. Trees punctuate the land like quiet witnesses, while people, absorbed by the glow of their phones, become part of the scene’s unfolding narrative. Along the harbours, human-made silhouettes interrupt the skyline, sending echoes rippling across the water.
I seek to capture not only what is seen, but what is felt in the fleeting transitions of place and time.
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Artist Bio
Kim Atlin graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1988, having been awarded the prestigious Experimental Arts Faculty Association Award and recognized with other awards for her printmaking. After graduation, she gravitated towards painting as her primary means of artistic expression. Kim has dedicated herself full-time as an artist for over 20 years before moving to Owen Sound in 2023. She has participated in numerous juried exhibitions throughout her career, including Perspectives Canada (2000) - a show of Canadian contemporary women painters. The primary inspiration of Kim's work has always been nature and her environs. Her interest often comes at the intersection of nature and humanity. Kim is represented by numerous galleries. Her most recent solo show is in September 2025 in Edmonton with Bugera Lamb Fine Art. In April 2025, she participated in the Pouch Cove residency in Newfoundland. Kim's work is widely collected nationally and internationally.
Sarah Kernohan ​
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Artist Statement
My work draws on objects and images gathered in various landscapes, translating these into pieces that offer a glimpse into the geological world around us. I am guided by the poetic language describing geological processes and landscapes in flux—both materially and perceptually—shifting shorelines due to tidal processes, retreating glaciers, ice shifting on top of waves, and snowfields changing in response to wind and weather conditions.
My photo-based works assemble close-up images of rocky surfaces, revealing their origins and past locations. I immerse myself in these surfaces, finding landscape phenomena. I use collage to extend fragments, creating an image that can be continually built upon.
My drawings extend explorations of these themes, meditating on landscape processes. I use drawing methods and materials related to these processes, employing particulate materials like graphite, pigment, and chalk to create atmospheric drawings. I use strategies like veiling, sifting, dragging, melting, lapping, and flowing.
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Artist Bio
Sarah Kernohan’s works on paper explore the connection between subtle landscape elements and large-scale geological processes. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. Recent exhibitions include Bridging Borders (Coordenadas Residencia, Buenos Aires), Splitting Distance (Red Head Gallery, Toronto), and Snow-blind (Gallery Stratford, Stratford). She has participated in residencies in Canada and abroad, and her work has received grants and awards from the Arts Awards Waterloo Region, Ontario Arts Council, and Region of Waterloo Arts Fund. She is based in Kitchener, Ontario.
Christine Fry
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Artist Statement
Over the 7 years of being in Grey Highlands, I have witnessed a shift in the severity of storms. This series, Dark Skies, is a Monotype print series created in February of 2023. The winter that year was one of those winters with a serious lack of sun, and also a point in time of significant loss and turmoil. The external mood of the environment mirrored my mental darkness and internal stormy weather. Creating these black and white prints in one printing session, I utilized the residual ink or ghost image on the plate to layer the fence structure, storm, and rain, creating a narrative throughout the work. The story arc can then be manipulated by arranging the prints.
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Artist Bio
Christine’s work is centered around accumulation, repetition, language, and memory. For the exploration of these ideas, she employs the tactics of construction/
deconstruction, movement, line, accumulation, and repetition inherent in the media of Printmaking, Drawing, and Animation. Repetition and accumulation, both mental and physical, mean her work often has no single genesis; rather, it slowly accretes over time.
Christine Fry has a BA in Anthropology from York University and a BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University. She relocated to Grey Highlands in 2021 from Mississauga, where she was instrumental in helping to create and run the life drawing group, Figurative Expressions, out of VAM in Mississauga for artists of all skill levels.
