The local art group Innerscapes will display their latest work in the show, Zoom Zoom Zoom, from May 27 until June 21 at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre. 
This is the third installment in the “Zoom” series, exhibited at the Georgetown Cultural Centre. Innerscapes artists, Beatrice Dumbreck, Herta Hajek, Tizianna Manierka, George Perdue, Eileen Simpson, and Jan Zimmerman have been developing this work over the past year exploring what it takes to develop their personal journeys. 
Innerscapes was initiated to promote exploration, learning, and development in fine arts. Both the group and its purpose have evolved since inception in 2000.  Each member develops at varying rates along multiple paths. This variety in evolution serves as a magnet for the members, each finding a time to take their creative energy from the group. The result: six distinct paths with intersecting points in common. 
The Zoom series was conceived as a way to share the path of creativity now known as “Zooming Out”.
So what is Zooming?
Artists find themselves on a personal journey. The longer one paints the more one realizes there is much more to explore, discover, and learn. As Degas said on his deathbed “this has to happen just when I was getting it”.
The Innerscapes members have all discovered for themselves many ways to launch themselves into that part of the mind that lets them explore without thinking. This can occur only when one is transported into that spot in the right mind where the path is explored in an uninhibited way. Think about getting into that frame of mind and you cannot get there.
So how does one “Zoom Out”?
One method used is to work in a way not normal— another medium, another place, another colour strategy, more or less abstract, faster, slower and the list goes on.  This takes you out of your comfort zone and, as long as the exercise is not found to be offensive, you might begin to zoom.
Another way is to work in the woods where nature might set you free. Yet another way is to work along side another artist who is exploring. Somehow you can pick up the energy emanating from your fellow artist.
The more one zooms the easier it is to zoom.  “Zooming Out” is the epitome of zooming when one approaches the escape velocity— when you hover and appear not to be able to come back. Some of us have been known to paint in the rain without knowing that it is raining.  Now that is “Zooming Out”.
For more details on their discovery, talk with the artists at the reception to be held on Saturday, June 14, 2-4 p.m. in the Halton Hills Cultural Centre.