Original artwork description:

Feel the energy of Nature in this Lively Landscape celebrating the lush greens of summer. Trees and flowers bloom along the banks of a river and amongst the verdant foliage touches of reds and pinks bring a lovely vibrancy of colour.

This Beautiful 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.


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 countryside and 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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