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