Echoes from a Quiet Landscape- Solo Show By Dainne Twombly

Dianne Twombly is a Hamilton-based visual artist whose digital assemblages explore themes of decay, renewal and cycles of life and death in both natural and constructed environments. Her work deconstructs the natural and urban landscapes she photographs and reimagines the relics in more expansive dream-inspired arrangements where disparate elements merge precariously among uncertain shadows and skewed perspectives. These works invite the viewer to more carefully consider the beauty found amidst the mundane.

“I am fascinated by liminal and derelict architecture, and the opportunities they hold for reimagining the possible... and the impossible.

Prince Edward County holds innumerable treasures in the form of sagging barns, dilapidated buildings and historic barracks—all of which hold in their bones a vast store of human history. Base 31 is of particular interest to me because of its rich Canadian history, its unique architectural presence in the county, and the kind of imaginative repurposing my work celebrates. 

Who used these buildings? What human activities, long since ceased, took place in these old, largely unnoticed places? Is the energy of the people and animals still contained there? What can we learn from them?

In photographing these marvelous human constructions, and then digitally removing them from their environments and placing them in new, seemingly impossible landscapes, I invite viewers to look more closely at these fascinating artefacts, to honour their unique existence in a world that increasingly reveres the new and modern, and to see within them a world of exciting possibilities. “

-Dianne Twombly

Show Dates October 2 - November 8th 2026
Artist Reception October 3rd 1-4 pm.