Leaving Home

Rhonda Neufeld

Topham Brown Memorial Gallery
July 25 to September 24, 2025

Opening Reception: July 24 from 6-8 PM
Artist Demo: September 5 from 1-3 PM (part of First Friday’s Art Trail)
Artist Talk: September 11 from 6-7 PM

In Leaving Home, artist Rhonda Neufeld shares a deeply personal body of work that reflects on her connection to the landscape she called home for over 40 years. Through walking, touching, and closely observing the natural world around her, Neufeld captures the details of place—tree bark, stone surfaces, shifting light—and translates them into prints that hold both memory and presence.

Using traditional printmaking techniques, Neufeld makes rubbings directly from trees and rocks, transferring those impressions onto copper plates, wood blocks, and lithographic stones. The result is a series of works that feel both grounded and poetic, inviting viewers to slow down and experience the land in a more intimate way.

This exhibition is a quiet celebration of place, a reflection on the joy of being close to nature, and a way of saying goodbye to a landscape that shaped a lifetime of artmaking.

Photography: Digital Perfections