Saturday 27 February 2016

Au Gallery/At the Gallery of Victoria Hall of Westmount-Expoition/exhibition Catherine Benny-Shahrzad Ghaffari-Homeira Mortazavi- 03 au/to 27 Février/February 2016-Photographs Shahrzad Ghaffari-MVM

ARTIST TALK BY VICTORIA LEBLANC-CURTOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE GALLERY OF VICTORIA HALL-HOMEIRA MORTAZAVI-CATHERINE BENNY-SHAHRZAD GHAFFARI-23 FEBRUARY 2016-7 PM


Catherine Benny, Shahrzad Ghaffari and Homeira Mortazavi share the space at
 The Gallery at Victoria Hall
February 3 to 27, 2016

The Gallery at Victoria Hall is pleased to bring together three artists who share a passion for the floral world and have transformed that passion into art.  Catherine Benny, Shahrzad Ghaffari and Homeira Mortazavi all explore the floral theme from unique perspectives.  But whether from close up or afar, the images of isolated flowers beginning to bud or fields of impressionistic swaths of colour, rekindle our delight in this eternal theme.  While flowers have served metaphorically throughout the history of art as symbols of life and plenitude, these works remind us of the sheer fact of their physical beauty and the emotional response they evoke.   The exhibition runs from February 4th to February 27th ; the vernissage takes place Wednesday, February 3rd at 6 p.m.  As well, the public is invited to An Artist and Curator Exchange on Tuesday, February 23rd at 7 p.m.


Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday: 10 a.m.  – 9 p.m.  Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The Gallery at Victoria Hall


4626 Sherbrooke Street, Westmount (Québec) H3Z 1G1 tel: 989-5226






Homeira & Catherine and myself together with Victoria Leblanc, the curtor and director of the Gallery and the Gallery of Victoria Hall of Westmount thank most sincerely all our visitors and guests for your precious visit and comments.


Catherine Benny`s works offer a lively and  impressionistic take on her subject – mostly fields of flowers depicted from differing vantage points with emphasis on shifting hues, from brilliant yellow to subtle creams and soft lavenders.  The artist has developed an approach to painting that involves blending the colours directly on the canvas using a palette knife. A  rich tonal variation is achieved through a deft painterly touch that captures a sense of transience – as if the fields are in constant transformation and movement.  The layered, built up texture of the painting surface adds to the viewer`s engagement with not just the subject but the paint itself.  Since 2011, Benny has exhibited in several group and solo shows in Montreal and Florida; she is represented in Florida by Gallery 2014.    
 

Shahrzad Ghaffari`s photographs move the viewer to an intimate often `”zoomed in” view of her subject – flowers isolated against an atmospheric backdrop that serves to underline the intricate delicate structure, texture and hue of her theme.  For Ghaffari, her attraction to nature`s beauty, in particular flowers, has become a happy obsession, if not a form of meditation as she focuses for hours on capturing the specific color, emotion and movement of her chosen image. “A dialogue ensues between what attracts my mind, the subject and my camera. I try to materialize what I feel and see.”  The reduced or minimal compositional format reinforces this sense of meditative reflection as if we are asked to bring our own attention to bear upon the beauty of the image before us. 





As a painter, Homeira Mortazavi`s central focus is on women and flowers, in particular the rose; the two themes are often symbolically juxtaposed in a surreal fashion.  Several of the large format oil paintings featured here offer exquisitely rendered intimate views of roses, grouped such that a rhythmic pattern of tonal pinks, corals or the softest blues, keeps our eye moving across the canvas surface.  Three of the works bring together figure and flower, as, for instance,  `”In Peace’ where the female figure turns away from the viewer to gaze at the looming image of the open rose as if greeting a friend or acknowledging a  communicating presence.   Mortazavi`s technical skill is repeatedly evident in the handling of both human and natural forms as she celebrates the beauty of both.   Mortazavi has enjoyed both solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Quebec and in the United States.
































1001 thanks to where and whom they belong to!








Friday 26 February 2016

BIRTHDAY PARTY OUR WONDERFUL SHEILA LAWRENCE- WITH OUR PRECIOUS GUEST OF HONOR: VINCENT WARREN -17 FEB 2016-1-PHOGRAPH: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Hotel Auberge Manoir Ville Marie Montreal

To the wonderful guests who attended this beautiful party and made it so special but might not be on these photographs: I regret that I could not catch you! 
Next time, I will not miss you!


It was wonderful,
It was marvelous....
Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 5,   
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari

Thanks to you all Sheila's fun ballerinas for the great organization of this party and all the guests who brought so much joy to this unforgettable party!
Sheila seemed enjoying her amazing Birthday Party, 
and so did all of us!
Let's party more often!!! 

Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 1 
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 2 
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 1
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 3
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 3
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 4
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 5
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 6
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 4
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time: 3
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari


Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
                                      Sheila Lawrence birthday party- Sheila Lawrence, Our beautiful Ballet Legend: 1,   
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Our two fantastic Canada's Ballet Legends - Hug time-Sheila Lawrence & Vincent Warren- 1
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time- 10
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 5
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chattubg time - 4
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 2,   Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Hug time: 2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 11
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 12 & 13
Photograph: Shahrzad & Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having lots of fun: 1
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time: 14
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time- Danielle & Kate- 1
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 


Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time- Staircase: 1 & 2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time- Staircase: 3
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus-1
Photograph: Ron

Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari  
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  3
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari

Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  4
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus: 5
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  6
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  7
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus:  8
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari





Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having fun with Tutus: 1a  & 1b & 1c & 1b
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila  the  Queen & Louis the King with  fun Tutu ladies:  1
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari


Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila  the  Queen & Louis the King with  fun Tutu ladies:  2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus:  1
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus: 2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus:-3
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus: Devon Philips & Shahrzad Ghaffari-4
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus: Devon Philips & Shahrzad Ghaffari-4
Photograph: Ron
Having Fun with Tutus:  6
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus:  7
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus: 8
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun with Tutus:  9
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Having Fun -Ron:  1
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila & Lisha:  1 & 2
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari, Manoir Ville Marie.
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 3,  
 Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 4,   
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party- 
Vincent Warren-the Guest of Honor the Canada's Ballet Legend:& Francis Goldberg Artist & Balerina-1 
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing time-15
 Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time-5
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time-6
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time-7
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time-8
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari


   
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-  Posing stair case-1 & 2  , Photograph: Ron

                                       Sheila Lawrence birthday party-  Posing stair case-3 , Photograph: Ron


Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing stair case-5 
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing stair case-1 & 2 & 3 & 4  
Photograph: Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing stair case-1 & 2 & 3 & 4  
Photograph:  Ron
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Chatting time- 9
 
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 5,   
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Sheila Lawrenc, Our beautiful  Canada's Ballet Legend: 6,   
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari
Sheila Lawrence birthday party-Posing on staircase-7  
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 



Sheila Lawrence birthday party-
Sheila Lawrence  & Louis Rousseau
Photograph: Shahrzad Ghaffari 
We love you Sheila and we enjoy your workshops and your teachings...what is amazing is the continuity! Thanks to you for offering the accessibility to Ballet to all of us as we enjoy it entirely through happy moments ! 
We also thank most sincerely our wonderful ballernias who organized so wonderfully this event. 
Many thanks to our wonderful Louis Rousseau who is sharing the love of ballet with us!  

Shahrzad est enchantée de votre visite et vous invite à partager votre art de sagesse,...

Bonjour aux Artistes et Artisans de la vie!!! C'est un grand plaisir de partager avec vous ma passion de vivre l'équilibre en harmonie avec la liberté grâce à la comprehension de ma place et la place de l'autrui dans cette univers...
Alros, je vous remercie pour être vous, pour votre générosité et l'ouverture, joignons à cette foire aux merveilles avec nos oeurves crées par la Passion et Tendresse pour la VIE...

CONNECTION DE CE WEBBLOG AVEC MANOIR VILLE MARIE:
Manoir Ville Marie, ce Cocoon de Paix pour beaucoup de clients réguliers qui y offrent leurs présences authentiques!!! Alors, dormir au Manoir Ville Marie est une expérience à la fois paisible et intéressante.

Participez au tirage d'un Certificat de Cadeau d'une nuit pour deux au Manoir Ville Marie':

Tous les deux mois, il vas avoir un tirage (le premier étant le pre,mier septembre 2011) et le nom du gagnant serait annoncé. sur ce weblog

*Racontez-moi un poème, une petite histoire de sagesse de maximum 500 mots, ou une photo, une peinture...

Remerciements:
Je remerci mon très cher fils, Sépandat Stéphane (qui a le regardl très profond sur l'univers et ses êtres) pour m'avoir encourager (plutôt forcé) de faire ce blog en rapport avec mes amis Manoir Ville Marie.

Je remerci mon très cher fils, Maziar Marc (qui a le regard minutieux sur ll'univers et ses êtres) pour m'a aidé (plutôt forcer) d'avoir le courage d'apprendre comment faire ce weblog, toujours disponible pour sa mère, Maziar est un excellent guide et proffesseur.

Enfin, je remerci mon cher mari et compagnon de vie, Bahram Bernard pour m'encourage d'essayer de faire court et simple!!!

A cette étape de ma vie, je crois que la fiérté de l'être humain est dans sa Compréhension de l'Univers...et cette Compréhension nous guide vers la Conscience qui se manifeste souvent par les Arts, La Créativiyé ou nos Actions. Où La Paix est présente, elle y est présente également.

REMARQUES:
. Les textes et photos publiés sur ce blog sont mes propres créations et comme tous les arts peuvent être naîfs maintenant et plus mature plutard!!! Vous allez avoir une part précieux dans mon évolution artistique par vos commentaires.

. Je jongle entre trois langues, alors, pardonnez mes erreurs et si vous souhaitez apporter des corrections, j'en serais ravie (envoyez-moi vos corrections et je les appliquerez) et je vous en serrais très reconnaissante.

... Au fur et à mesure que vous allez me connaitre à travers mon regard sur la VIE, l'univers et le monde..

Je vous aime et j'ai hâte de vous décourvir par votre ART...

Shahrzad

About Me

Canada
J'ai toujours été ravie de mon prénom Shahrzad شهرزاد qui avait été choisi par ma chère mére, un être exceptionnel que j'appelle madar en persan. Quand j'ai appris que Shahrzad voulait dire:'Caractère Libre', j'ai sourri...quand j'ai lu l'histoire de Shahrzad, j'ai encore sourri...et, quand j'ai appris que Shahrzad était dans la Perse antique la déesse de l'apprentissage (ou quelque chose similaire,à confirmer), j'ai me suis demandée comment ma mère savait que ce prénom allait tellement bien à sa fille Shahrzad!