AiR – Patio Painting: Intuition and Imagery
AiR – Patio Painting: Intuition and Imagery
Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Registration ends June 25th, 2025
Join Artist in Residence Mailey Horner for an outdoor painting workshop on the Patio at Casa. Mailey’s art practice is inspired by folk tales, organic shapes, and the various landscapes she has translated into her image bank and personal iconography.
Participants will learn to translate the abundance of their environment into paintings through experimental mark making processes. The workshop will prioritise using the materials of everyday life (paper, cardboard, wood, acrylic paint, etc.), cultivating intuitive painting practices through experimentation and curiosity. Mailey will offer demonstrations and guidance, and there will be a voluntary sharing session to conclude the workshop. Materials provided.
Mailey Horner’s painting practice examines the interplay between abstraction and figuration, reducing the world to its most essential traces, images, and archetypes. She takes stylistic inspiration from folk art, and thematic inspiration from the domestic sphere, fables, and the loose quality of memory.
Mailey uses a loose style of paint handling and items plucked out of the domestic, to be framed in imaginary, colourized landscapes that she comes to intuitively. Throughout this process, the painting often establishes her innermost archetypal, cultural, and imaginary figures. Fundamentally, Mailey’s practice revolves around the questions of how an image can have pictorial agency and how paint can be used to establish narratives and tap into personal and cultural mythologies. She explores various tensions in her work including those of narrative agency and intuition, human-animal or interspecies relations, and the dichotomy between ‘domestic craft’ and ‘fine art.’
Throughout her residency at Casa, Mailey seeks to expand her current painting practice with a new body of paintings that incorporate sculptural elements. Specifically, she is interested in using the woodshop at Casa to create sculptural bases and artist frames for her paintings. She’s highly interested in her residency here because of the topography and flora of southern Alberta. Having lived in southern Ontario her entire life, she was only recently introduced to the Coulees when her family relocated to Lethbridge last year. Mailey has been keen to revisit this geography to incorporate its colours and contours into her work ever since.
Come to her Artist Talk in the Meeting Room on Thursday, June 19 from 7 pm – 8 pm to learn more about her artistic practice, and join us for Upside Downtown on Thursday, July 10 from 5 pm – 7 pm in Rotary Square for an Open House to see what she's created during her stay at Casa!
Ages:16+
Date:June 25th, 2025
Time:6:30 pm
Fee:$20.00
Casa Program Guide
The Casa Program Guide is produced three times a year; Winter, Spring/Summer and Fall. Inside the guide find listings for the upcoming class and workshop schedule, upcoming exhibitions at The Gallery, information about artists in residence and seasonal events in the building. Program guides are free. Pick-up guides at Casa or at facilities throughout the city.