Original artwork description:

A late Evening Walk beneath a Canopy of Trees. Vibrant Reds are rendered with impressionist strokes. Whimsical stylized trees and vibrant touches of blue bring a liveliness and a sense of the magic to this painting.

This Acrylic on Canvas comes rolled. To more than cover the cost of restretching on 1.5 inch gallery stretcher bars at your local framer , 10% has been deducted from the usual retail price. Once stretched the sides of the canvas are white.


ARTIST STATEMENT - THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE

My childhood summers were filled with weekend explorations of the countryside north of Toronto and beyond. These early road trips, rich with images, fed my internal visual archive. Viewed from the car window, an ever-changing vista rolled before my eyes.

Walks through woods immersed me in dark shadows where rays of glinting light pushed their way between boughs, dappling the forest floor, luminous and redolent of earth.

In this landscape series, I’ve painted scenes inspired by the Southern Ontario countryside and Toronto’s verdant backyards, all filtered through imagination and an emotional response translated into lively brushstrokes and an abundance of colour. Impasto strokes of acrylic are laid upon watercolour like underglazes and the charcoal marks of the initial drawing are sometimes revealed.

The paintings depict the energetic essence of landscape and capture the passion for the natural world that I was introduced to as a child, that held a kind of magic and an ethereal quality that still resonates strongly within me.

Materials used:

Acrylic

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