Install: New Brunswick Panorama, Saint John Arts Centre, St. John, NB, Canada
New
Brunswick Panorama is an installation of seascape and landscape paintings of New
Brunswick from St. Andrews to Hopewell Rocks painted on location and from my
photos. I started painting with the Plein Air Painters of the Bay of Fundy in
2010 and fell in love with New Brunswick and her incredible coastline. I have
made several trips to discover and to paint and photograph along the coast of
New Brunswick during the last two and a half years and I am in awe of the drama
and changing weather and tides. The quiet and color draw me back time and time
again.
My
panorama installation projects began when I was preparing my work for a show
one day and I noticed that the similar horizon lines of my landscape paintings
made a new landscape when placed side by side. This new landscape happened
regardless of the different subject in each painting. I then imagined a long
line of landscapes in a large space and how that line would draw the viewer in
and out of each piece and back to the whole leading one as a journey. The individual
works vary from beach to cliff to countryside. My focus in each painting is on color,
light, the relation of shapes and sense of place. The subjects for my paintings
come from having traveled in New Brunswick since 2010 and discovering the
dramatic and beautiful coastline. I bring my vision and experience of the place
to the viewer and I hope these works makes one experience New Brunswick as I
have.
New Brunswick Panorama, July 19-September 6, 2013
New Brunswick Panorama, July 19-September 6, 2013
photos Andrew Kierstead
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