![]() I love to paint the interaction between the water and the shoreline through all seasons. I am very fortunate to live on Skeleton Lake in Muskoka and have easy access to Algonquin Park and Georgian Bay where I can explore and my passion to paint natural shorelines. ![]() My paintings are somewhat traditional in that there is a clear depiction of a landscape in an impressionistic style. I use lively brush strokes on toned, stretched, gallery canvas. My oil paintings are impressions of the rugged shapes, forms and descriptions that come with intimate exploration of natural shorelines. I have had a lifetime of painting the colours and shapes found in nature as defined by light and shadow. ![]() A journey that alerts the eye and humbles the hand. My craving for beauty, a vital function for the human soul takes me on a journey of seeing. The view from my studio window of the East Lake provide endless inspiration. Living in a bucolic farming community in Eastern Ontario, I paint where I live. I have an acute visual memory for colours and their combinations, which I feel is the key to my work. Imprinted in my memory are the changing colours of the seasons, the glistening of the sun on the lake’s surface, the starkness of the birch tree’s bark. I often paint from memory, as the restrictions of the encaustic medium do not allow for plein air painting. These ‘openings’ invite the viewer to participate by joining the colours and images with their own imagination. It is what I don’t depict, the parts I leave out that is sometimes the most important element of my work. I offer through my paintings an atmospheric suggestion of possibility or the probability of the moment. I strive to depict the essence of a landscape. I believe strongly that a painting should depict the act of seeing, not the object seen. Although traditional in subject manner my approach is that of simplicity. The vast fields, forests and lakescapes of Canada provide endless inspiration. It is by reducing the image to various intersecting planes that you are left with an abstract image of where you once were, or how you felt when you witnessed this place. I’ll snap a photo with my camera and revisit these images later in my studio where my mind will begin to reduce the image into various geometric shapes and colours.removing the traces of reality. A place that I am drawn to for whatever reason sometimes it might be my interest in how the waves crash against shoreline, or perhaps the way the sun sparkles on the blue water. Orange will always remind me of the golden hour just before dusk. Blue will forever remind me of my summers spent cottaging on Georgian Bay. I’ve always been fascinated at how the human mind can recall a place, or a thing, or a time… simply by being exposed to familiar shapes and colours that mimic these memories. Afterward you can remove traces of reality" - Pablo Picasso ![]() Image via wikipedia."There is no abstract art. Image via widewalls.ch Henri Rousseau – The Dream. Image via Claude Monet – Grainstacks at the End of Summer. Please scroll down and explore some of the celebrated paintings by famous nature artists.įeatured image: Vincent van Gogh – Wheat Field with Cypresses. The famous nature paintings which follow bellow showcase the mastery of artistic achievements and are considered as some of the most popular paintings of nature. The landscape paintings today showcase the importance of painting in open air which continues to fascinate landscape artists. The pioneer abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky used nature as a starting point for his paintings, which focused on the notion of the spiritual and suggestive in art. For many, Claude Monet’s painting, especially his series investigating light on the Rouen Cathedral, announced abstraction in art. Exploring the shifting light and investigating the perception of color, nature was a starting point for major achievements which forever changed the face of art. With the birth of avant-garde movement Impressionism, artists took to the countryside and began painting en-plain air. In the past, artists would often recreate nature in their studios and these models helped them to create some of the greatest imagery in art history. The famous nature paintings fall into various categories, from the highly realistic nature depictions, detailed watercolor illustrations of various animal species and new discoveries of the world, to stunning examples of abstract landscape paintings, and the most celebrated non-figurative paintings of the 20th-century.Ī pure fascination for artists, nature is a great setting onto which inner feelings and progressive ideas of the new aesthetic language and trends can be imprinted. The development of nature paintings follows two different schools: Chinese landscape painting and Western art. ![]()
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