Welcome

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I’m an abstract/contemporary artist working with paint, mixed media, photography and found objects.

The fodder for my art-making: a love of abstract expressionism and colour field painting and a fascination with the vastness of time and the marvel that we exist.

NEWS & EXHIBITIONS

  • Art residency: Spent an inspiring time at the Tree House AiR, in Sointula, Malcolm Island BC, May 2026. Stitched and painted a new timepiece and took it into the field every day to capture it living in the moment, being one with its surroundings.
  • Passed the Day 1000 mark in March on my slow-motion studio project This Is How It Goes: By Change and By Chance. The Idea: To model in real time the transformation of a life day by day. Process: For every day since July 1, 2023, I’ve rolled a die on a “life”—the same 36 X 36 inch work on paper—and cut out a small disk where the die lands. The bits removed (the subtractions set by chance) I save like mementos. I also regularly modify the work’s surface by adding paint, drawing and collage. I do this according to whim and as needed to help the slowly changing life adjust to the cumulative effects of the losses. Updates at: instagram.com/georgina.montgomery.art

Day 751, July 20, 2025. This Is How It Goes: By Change and By Chance (detail)

  • Ongoing in and out of the studio: I Was Here (Marking Time/This Moment This Place). The Idea: To visually model our ephemeral existence as considered against the big markers of geologic and human histories. Process: For a pre-set period (example, weeks, month, year), I create a hand-stitched “timepiece”—a stand-in presence for my own existence—on a tough, gauzy fabric. At intervals I take the timepiece out into the landscape to photograph it interacting with the natural elements and surroundings. The resulting images capture this presence having its moments, just as all the other presences before it have had in the very same spot. Images and videos at: instagram.com/georgina.montgomery.art
In action, marking time (2 weeks), Spain edition, June 2024. (Photo credit: Margo Farr)
Marking time (4 weeks), Wales edition, Sept-Oct 2024
I Was Here (Geology)
Marking time (12 months), Mount Tzoulalem, Canada edition, Dec 2024
Marking time (12 months), Mount Tzoulalem, Canada edition, March 2025
Marking time (12 months), Mount Tzoulalem, Canada edition, June 2025
Marking time (12 months), Mount Tzoulalem, Canada edition, July 2025