New Exhibit at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Mute Eloquence of Light: Arctic Works by Janet Read

For Immediate Release
Minden, Ontario
Monday, March 16, 2026
10:00 AM
Release # 26-20

Subject: New Exhibit at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Mute Eloquence of Light: Arctic Works by Janet Read

The Agnes Jamieson Gallery is pleased to welcome Janet Read with her exhibit Mute Eloquence of Light: Arctic Works. The exhibit will be on display from March 26 to May 23, 2026. The official opening reception with the artist talk will take place on Saturday, April 11 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Read’s exhibit consists of abstract paintings on linen, panels in oil and acrylic, and hybrid drawings/paintings on Duralar. These works spring from travels in the high Arctic in 2018, 2023, and 2025. Improvisation and spontaneous abstract mark-making visualize the processes of wind and water relating her experiences of the high Arctic in Canada and the Greenlandic west coast. These works extend earlier themes initiated by residencies in Newfoundland and western Ireland. Abstraction conveys an emotional and poetic response to the environment. It is mediated imaginative experience, re-created as visual works. What do you see? What do you feel? Are you moved to action?

Artist Biography

Janet Read is a painter, musician, poet, and music educator, whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. The artist has sought the water’s edge ever since. Her roots go back to the Ottawa Valley Irish, Belfast, and county Wexford in Ireland: explaining a fondness for fiddle music, poetry, and the sea. Read studied graduate philosophy and education at the University of Toronto. Art studies at York and OCADU inform her practice of large-scale paintings, book works, works on Duralar and photo installation. She has had exhibitions in commercial and public galleries. Works are collected in hospital, public and private collections, including RVH in Barrie, Town of Markham, Whitby Station Gallery, Art Gallery of Northumberland, and the Royal Bank.

Learn more: www.janet-read.com/  janetread3@gmail.com/  @janetreadvisualartist

The Agnes Jamieson Gallery is a fully accessible public gallery with year-round visual exhibitions of local and regional art. It is part of the Minden Hills Cultural Centre which also includes the Heritage Village & Nature Place Interpretive Centre. The Minden Hills Cultural Centre is located at 176 Bobcaygeon Road, Minden, Ontario and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission by donation.

For questions regarding this exhibit, please call the Community Services Department at 705-286-1260 x 542. For more information, visit the Township of Minden Hills website at www.mindenhills.ca

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 Contact Information:
Shannon Kelly, Manager of Cultural Services
Township of Minden Hills
PO Box 359, 7 Milne Street
Minden, ON K0M 2K0
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