Coordinates

This body of work is titled coordinates. Each piece began as an un-stretched piece of raw canvas that I brought with me during my travels over the course of the past summer. Some pieces were painted on the end of a dock on a lake in Northern B.C. others on a rocky beach, the deck of a small cabin in the woods, picnic tables and gravel campsite floors. 

My goal with these pieces was not only to paint the landscapes that surrounded me but for the canvases to adopt pieces of the landscape itself. Specks of dust. Grains of sand. Textures on which each piece was painted. I wanted the work to become one with the location I was in and to bring a deeper sense of meaning to the piece. Each one is titled with the rough latitude and longitude of the location it was painted in or inspired by. 

The frames of these pieces were also created similarly, as the wood was milled from my family’s acreage. Made from Alberta poplar and aspen trees, each frame is handcrafted with care and precision.