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Laureen Marchand is a painter based in remote rural Saskatchewan, Canada. Inspired by her region’s subtlety and remoteness, her paintings reflect on our ideas and perception of beauty. 

Rewilding Imagination is Laureen’s current long term visual project. But Rewilding Imagination isn’t intended to be at the scale of some of the extraordinary environmental rewilding restoration endeavours taking place worldwide.

Rewilding Imagination is more like what people do when they rewild their gardens. We understand that we need both untamed and domestic elements in our lives and in doing so, look for ways to allow both to thrive.

Isabella Tree, one of the practitioners of large scale environmental rewilding, said, “Rewilding – giving nature the space and opportunity to express itself – is largely a leap of faith.”

Laureen Marchand has the faith that by visually integrating dailiness and wildness as well as the interruptive elements of pure abstraction, she can help a viewer see domestic beauty in harmonious relationship to both natural and human-made beauty. We do not need to accept a society’s view that these elements must be in conflict.

For more on this Rewilding Imagination project, click the image above, or here.

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