Lucy Gerritsen

08/19/2025

From the Bottom of the Inland Sea: Layers of Time & Memory - Willow.
Once the bottom of an inland sea, the top of the escarpment- the shoreline. Now the place where willows grow, graves lie in silence, neighbourhoods bustle, cars climb up the highway, hikers hike, sewers sew. My mother immigrated from the Netherlands and sewed. The sound of the sewing machine a memory of her struggle to survive and care for 4 children without a partner in an adopted country. The front layer acrylic on a piece of laminate from her machine.

07/18/2025

I love the bustle and colours of rooftops against the backdrop of these mountains in Omagari. The earth knows and remembers. Kaze ga onaji desu. The wind is the same wind across the earth.

07/12/2025

I got caught up in exploring the stillness, heat, moody sky, the textures of this temple in Okinawa.

07/09/2025

Earls Court Gallery is a lovely gallery. Come by for a look see.

Starts Saturday…

Stay tuned for sneak peeks!

All artwork by the artists of the Women’s Art Association of Hamilton will be available for online and in gallery. Come check out this special exhibition!

On for a limited time.

07/06/2025

Working on a series I am calling- “From the bottom of the inland sea”. Below what is now called the Niagara Escarpment, layers of time and memory have ebbed and flowed for centuries. So many lives have been ripped apart, and over time stitched back together. This piece is painted on a broken piece of laminate wood that was part of my mother’s antique sewing machine.

07/04/2025

A couple of my pieces will be in this show.

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Upcoming Exhibition: RESILIENCE 2025
The Women’s Art Association of Hamilton invites you to our next exhibition at Earls Court Gallery, Ottawa Street North.

🗓️ Exhibition Dates: July 12–26
🎉 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 24 | 7:00–9:00 PM

Join us in celebrating the work of local women artists and the theme of resilience. Everyone is welcome!

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06/17/2025

Exploring ideas of time and memory, history and who told it, migration and living on this earth. This little piece of laminate is from my mother’s sewing machine. How my parents stitched out a life in “Canada”, from the Netherlands, not realizing it’s foundation was on grief and lives torn apart. The Niagara Escarpment knows.

06/14/2025

Calling it done. This one was a process getting to a place that felt right for the wood and for me. The endurance and resilience of earth is still what I think about most.

05/30/2025

Still deep in this piece - layering paint, charcoal, wood, fabric and fragments of memory. A friend See Laurie Sew visited recently and we realized we are exploring the same themes of time, grief and memory.

04/07/2025

Finally done.