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A hungry wolf emerging, lean and ferocious from the forest. Two small owlets zealously guarded by their parent. A man, frozen in time.
Such is the world of artist Sonya Morglan.
Morglan is an artist in every sense of the word. She thinks, lives and breathes her work. She paints wildlife, historical scenary and some portraits.
Morglan works with oil paints using brushes and palette knives. She finds that the oil colours allow her to capture more realistic tones and light.
"Oils are colours built on colour. Underneath each colour is a different shade that gives it life", said Morglan.
"I can't stay away from the canvas", she said. "Artists, wherever they find a space, be it in the kitchen, the bedroom or the bathroom, paint." (she has painted a wall size mural at the end of her bedroom.)
Morglan has set up a gallery to display her paintings at her home just outside of Calabogie. The gallery which she opened in the summer of '95 , features her own work including lifelike representations of wildlife and local scenery.
Her philosophies of life are intertwined in her paintings and show through clearly in the scenes she portrays. She believes in preserving nature and history. She feels that these are two very important elements in life that are often overlooked.
"We're destroying the beauty around us", said Morglan. "Everything has a reason for being. It is part of the ecological system."
