Big Skies and Back Roads

These pieces play with the idea of human experiences within the landscape and the importance of that landscape in the formation of our identities. The application of paint in these landscapes is gestural and intuitive with visible brush marks building layers of colour to lend a narrative quality where stories and memories can be overlayed and reinterpreted. Glancing back through the eyes of youth, the shifting skies and gentle land serves as a reminder of our roots and a lens for our current identities.

Sometime We Need to Take the Long Road Home

36 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

“This work honours where we come from, our roots to a place of shared history. The paintings are an ode to a childhood spent growing up in rural Saskatchewan. They are fictitious places informed by memories of the place where I rode my bike down gravel roads, passed by fields staring out the windows of the school bus and learned to drive a stick shift old truck well before I ever went for my license. These are the landscapes of my youth where there was no traffic, everyone in town knew your name and the world was ripe with possibilities as big and expansive as the skies above.”

When Our Story Began

36 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Dreaming in Colour

30 x 40 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Softly Now on the Home Stretch

36 x 60 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Bright Summer Days

36 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

From Now to Forever

36 x 60 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Roll on By

24 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Skipping Along the Horizon

36 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Walking Through Sunshine

24 x 24 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Some Roots Run Deep

36 x 36 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Private Collection

Some Views Never Get Old

48 x 60 inches, acrylic on 1.5 inch gallery canvas

SOLD | Corporate Collection

Remembering where we have come from to realize the possibilities that lie ahead, just over the horizon.

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