Image: Dominique Prévost and Beverly Allen, Allen Ash Series and Paper Vessels, 2024–2026. Mixed materials, dimensions variable
The Art Gallery of Burlington in Ontario is presenting Paper Bound, an exhibition by the Paper Pals Collective, as part of its Community Generator series. The show occupies the series' hallways and display spaces and continues until 3 January 2027.
The four artists of the collective, Beverly Allen, Cecily Flemming, Dominique Prévost and Tricia W. Rawlins, share an interest in the natural world, which they approach through printmaking, paper art and mixed media. The exhibition brings together relief prints, Suminagashi marbling, eco-printing and woven paper. Working with Japanese and Western papers, recycled materials, thread and natural dyes, the artists build up layered compositions that draw on patterns found in nature.
Allen, who is based in Hamilton, works across printmaking, eco-printing, book arts, collage, papier-mâché and textiles, sits on the board of the Burlington Fine Arts Association and has exhibited internationally. Flemming, a self-taught printmaker in Burlington with a background in environmental science and education, makes multi-layered linocuts and monoprints; her Decisions (2025) combines linocuts with hand-marbled Japanese paper.
Prévost, based in Oakville, uses linocut, drawing, brush painting and Suminagashi to explore patterns that recur in natural and human forms. Her Marsh Crossing XIII (2025) combines ink, acrylic, marbling and linoprint with 13 washi papers and canvas. Prévost and Allen are also jointly credited with Allen Ash Series and Paper Vessels (2024–2026), a group of mixed-material works.
Rawlins, a Burlington printmaker and paper artist who studied at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College, specialises in woven paper pieces that combine her own prints with Japanese and handmade papers, and teaches printmaking and paper arts. Her monoprint Sunday Picnic (2025) is among the works on view.
The Community Generator programme gives local artists, collectives and community groups dedicated space in the gallery to show their work.
