29/05/2026
LBF Contemporary is delighted to announce its return to Muskoka, Canada, for the third edition of its off-site summer exhibition, ‘LBF @ the Lake III,’ opening on 12 June.
This year’s show centres on themes of atmosphere, inspired by the elemental forces of wind, water, and fire which shape the landscape. The exhibition brings together 11 contemporary artists, each responding to the landscape of Muskoka, Ontario.
Featuring artists:
Annice Fell ()
Jelly Green ()
Maria Kreyn ()
Yeji Sei Lee ()
Hélio Luis ()
Lizbeth Mitty ()
Min Woo Nam (minwoonam_studio)
Wenhai Ning ()
Gaia Ozwyn (.ozwyn)
Luke Silva ()
Yoab Vera ()
For generations the region has shaped how artists imagine the Canadian landscape, not only as scenery for Sunday painters out on Lake Algonquin, but as a space of brooding atmosphere, expansive scale, and shifting light, akin to the bohemians of Skagen in the 1880s or William Johnston’s abstract landscapes of the northern extremities of Scotland. The exhibition takes inspiration from the poetry of Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). In her poem ‘Marshlands’, Johnson’s lines evoke a landscape shaped by the elemental forces of wind, water, and grasses – an environment that resists clear edges or fixed viewpoints, an approach shared by many of the artists on display. The paintings in the show engage with Muskoka in both figurative and abstract ways. Some works linger on recognisable elements of the landscape – trees, shoreline, reeds, water birds, sublime bodies of water – while others translate its rhythms into gesture, diurnal or seasonal cadences, vegetal and ecological colours, and shifting fields of paint. Rather than presenting a single image of place, the works explore how landscape is encountered, often through the lens of memory, as the visual field becomes transformed by movement and the changing conditions of light and weather.
- text written by London-based writer and academic, Matthew Holman ()
