November 4, 2021 - January 24, 2022
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Road to Elsewhere, 2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)32.5" x 24"
Cruising By, 2020-2021 | SoldOil & ink transfer on birch (framed)20" x 16"
Breath of Fresh Air, 2020Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)32" x 40"
Between Wind & Water, 2018Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)24" x 40"
Sentinels, 2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)16” x 12”
Passing By, 2020-2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)16” x 12”
Forest for the Trees, 2019Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)16” x 12”
Through & Through, 2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)33.5" x 24"
On Route, 2019Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)10” x 8”
The Peaks, 2019-2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)10.75” x 8”
In Retrospect, 2017 | SoldOil & ink transfer on birch (framed)10" x 8"
Gravitational Pull, 2020-2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)28.5" x 48"
Room with a View, 2018-2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)18.25" x 24"
Summer Light, 2020-2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)8" x 10"
Sulphur & Salt, 2018/2021Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)8" x 10"
In the Blue, 2018Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)8" x 10"
Facade, 2018Oil & ink transfer on birch (framed)8" x 10"
My recent oil and mixed media works depict curious, dream-like scenes. They are inspired by sites explored while traveling abroad (pre-pandemic) and by landscapes discovered around British Columbia. Memories, imaginings, and my own photography are fused, morphing into surreal abstract landscape. These unlikely spaces often revisit familiar landscape tropes - with oceans, mountains, forests, and desert terrain meeting my less literal visual language of paint swaths, arcs, and floating forms. These images are intentionally ambiguous, inviting viewer interpretation and personal narrative.Incorporating ink transfers of my own photography, I blur boundaries between media; I embrace surreptitious transitions between the photographic transfers and the realistic application of oil paint framed by abstract forms. Hints of photography amid the painted fictions lend credibility to these imagined, fantastical worlds.Celestial, terrestrial, and aquatic motifs are present throughout the series. Ideas of regeneration, cycles, and the search for structure within ephemeral, fluid spaces seem to be recurring considerations.These fanciful paintings are intended as little moments of escapism—which for me, has taken on increased significance in 2020/2021.
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