Three women artists display at Image Factory

The majority of the original Image Factory Art crew may have made the transition from self-employed iconoclasts to publicly supported icons, but that doesn’t mean the old neighbourhood has been neglected. Tonight a new art exhibition opens on North Front Street featuring two veterans and a rookie.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

One thing Jeanne Bennett, Sandra March and Lita Krohn are passionate about and that is painting.

Lita Krohn, Artist

“I paint because I have to paint. Once I started about ten years ago doing this, I said, at least every two years let me do something. I think it keeps your creative juices flowing.”

Jeanne Bennett, Artist

“I enjoy painting. I like bringing out my expressions of faces or scenery that I like on canvass.”

Sandra March, Artist

“It’s been good. And well there is a lot of help from Yasser too right, so he is the one that encourages us, like for instance put off a show. Otherwise I think we would still be unknown.”

The exhibition includes eleven acrylic on paper paintings by Krohn, five acrylic on canvass by Bennett, and fifteen oil on canvass by March.

Lita Krohn

“I think people appreciate women as artists, because women are not just artists with the… a male artist will have all of the support basically of this family and his wife and everything. A woman artist will usually have all those responsibilities and at the same time do go out and produce and be creative. So I think there is a respect for women artists.”

It’s not the first time that Krohn and March pieces have been on public display, but it is a whole new experience for Bennett, even though she’s been painting since age five.

Jeanne Bennett

“Pictures that I like with facial expressions, then I’d take it off and just add my background or add different stuff. Sceneries I like, I take pictures, add different things together just to make it the setting that I would like.”

The exhibition titled “Three” will run until the end of the month…and yes, all paintings are for sale. Jacqueline Woods for News 5.