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Mayberry Fine Art has 35-plus years of experience in the Canadian art market.  It is a family-owned and -operated business, specializing in historical works by Canadian impressionists, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, as well as Canadian masters of today.  Located at 212 McDermot Avenue, in the heart of Winnipeg's historic Exchange District, the gallery offers a wide range of fine art services, including appraisals for insurance and estate purposes, an art leasing program, art storage as well as custom framing.

Since 2008, Mayberry Fine Art has also had a presence around the corner in the Winnipeg Square concourse at Portage and Main.   Situated near the Fort Street entrance, Mayberry Fine Art’s satellite gallery showcases monthly exhibitions highlighting works by leading artists from across Canada.  Open during regular mall business hours, including evenings and weekends—the gallery features an interactive touch screen computer with access to our entire inventory.

Featured Artist: Hashim Hannoon

Hashim Hannoon is the featured artist for the month of August at Mayberry Fine Art in Winnipeg Square

Recently relocated to Winnipeg, the distinguished Iraqi painter, Hashim Hannoon, is today faced with the opportunity and the challenge of introducing his work to a Canadian audience.   Writing in The Golden Medium, the monograph published for Hannoon’s 2008 solo exhibition in Amman, Jordan, Khalid Khudayer describes Hashim Hannoon as a realist and an abstract expressionist.  He suggests that Hannoon’s style of abstraction captures the golden medium, the perfect balance between form and colour.

As an artist personally affected by war, it is perhaps inevitable that Hashim Hannoon’s painting style has been profoundly shaped by the experience. Canvas was and still is a familiar raw material in Iraq.  The ubiquitous sand bags, which protect buildings from shelling, are made from it.  These materials take on special meaning, as Hannoon uses sand and the roughness of the canvas to lend texture to his paintings.  Like an archaeologist, he digs through his memories, unearthing the images stored there, in order to reassemble and reinvent them creatively on the canvas.

Wherever he lives, Hannoon seeks to achieve contact with the spiritual existence of a place.  Since his move to Winnipeg, that city has become a subject in his canvases.  He is not concerned with painting a literal portrait of a place, however.  He is interested, rather, in painting his own self-portrait” within that place.  This process results in abstract images of gentle beauty, which invite the viewer to experience what he has experienced, through the filter of his imagination.  Although born from tragedy of war, the paintings of Hashim Hannoon radiate vitality and optimism.