Ann McCall will be presenting a retrospective exhibition, Voices of Nature from October 30 to November 9 at Gallery1313, Toronto The exhibition includes selected works from the last over 50 years and includes drawings, paintings, silkscreen and collagraph prints as well as mixed media works.

Ann McCall has been working professionally as a printmaker since 1975. She received her BA from McGill University in 1964 and a BFA from Concordia University in 1977. Since that time, she has presented over 75 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 250 group exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In 1981, Ann McCall was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and was at one time, President. Her works are in many public, private, University and Corporate Collections. The following are a few selected examples: Bibliothèque nationale et archives du Québec; Bibliothèque Gabrielle Roy, Québec; Claridge Collection, Montréal; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; de Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass.; Dept. of External Affairs, Ottawa; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; le musée d’art contemporain, Montréal; Loto Québec, Montréal; Museum of Lodz, Poland; Museum of Skopje, former Yugoslavia; Musée du Québec; Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Ann McCall’s collagraph prints reveal her main preoccupation with landscape and natural phenomena. More recently her interest includes a preoccupation with environmental issues such as clear-cutting, climate change and rewilding.

McCall takes her inspiration from a nature-based world, combining imagery and ideas from her observation of natural phenomena. Light is a focus in the works: it is natural light, but sometimes with a mysterious quality, representing the uncertainty in the forces of nature.

The works are nature – based, her inspiration drawn from her surroundings in Mirabel, Québec where she has a family farm.