Union Market
Emotions gather here with range—joy, pleasure, longing, mourning—coming forward without needing to anchor themselves to a specific time or place. Decorative papers and patterns are not mere ornament behind the figure; they act as an active ground that holds and hovers around the body, sometimes cradling it, sometimes pressing close like music, heat, or memory. Cut edges, overlaps, and layered pattern remain legible in the image, so the work keeps its sense of making even in reproduction.
Across the works, wayfinding takes shape in pauses, in moments held just before the story resumes. Textiles, wallpaper-like motifs, and repeated marks become thresholds: spaces where intimacy settles, where waiting reads as a stance rather than an ending, where ornament becomes a language of selfhood. Palmer invites viewers into this openness: to assemble their own collage of memory and imagination, to extend the atmosphere beyond the frame, and to carry forward the figures’ stories as something still becoming.
Hazelle Palmer is a Toronto based artist whose work embodies the diversity of her lived experiences. Hazelle has been an artist for over 30 years and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. Her work has appeared on the covers of publications including “Tales from the Gardens and Beyond” and “Eyeing the North Star”. Her work is held in numerous private collections.
