Farm Road
Artist: Robert Marchessault
Work ID: 5287
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 40.64 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Oeuvre d'art par Robert Marchessault
The Crossing
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5260
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 109.22 x 144.78 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1996
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sunshot Lake
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5259
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 116.84 x 147.32 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1996
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
12th Line
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5267
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 35.56 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
West Marsh Stream
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5286
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 106.68 x 106.68 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Heading South
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5281
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 132.08 x 137.16 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
2nd Line
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5272
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dark Land
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5265
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 91.44 x 147.32 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
4th at Bass Lake
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5278
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 106.68 x 106.68 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
9th Line
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5268
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 40.64 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Farm Road
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5287
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 40.64 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Towards Medonte
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5285
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 152.4 x 152.4 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Pale Valley
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5264
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 121.92 x 175.26 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Marsh Stream
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5288
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 40.64 x 48.26 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Near the Monument
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5277
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 106.68 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
7th Line Field
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5280
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 38.1 x 48.26 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Pickett Fence
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5284
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 38.1 x 45.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Distant Road
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5263
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 121.92 x 175.26 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
November Ride
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5289
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 43.18 x 50.8 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Pont
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5266
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 91.44 x 139.7 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
If the Mountains Fell in the Sea
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5283
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 106.68 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
9th Past 15/16 Side Road
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5275
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 132.08 x 137.16 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sky Break
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5271
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 111.76 x 152.4 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Evening Ride
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5282
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 33.02 x 49.53 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
From Rugby
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5269
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 106.68 x 106.68 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Black Range Glow
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5262
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 127 x 182.88 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Being in Oro
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5261
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 121.92 x 177.8 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Morning Ride
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5270
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 27.94 x 36.83 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Towards Horse Shoe
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5276
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 33.02 x 49.53 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Towards Bass Lake
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5274
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 38.1 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Drury Hill
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5279
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 45.72 x 50.8 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Medonte
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5304
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Simoro
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5309
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Prairie
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5299
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 27.94 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Summerfields Oro Township
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5300
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 55.88 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Young Maple
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5292
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Hillside
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5303
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
West Fields
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5294
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 55.88 x 71.12 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Rising III
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5308
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 101.6 x 121.92 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Across the Valley
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5295
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 45.72 x 162.56 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Riding North
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5305
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Sundown at Feeder Creek
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5297
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 45.72 x 60.96 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
St. Vincent Township
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5293
Description: Artist''s Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Rising
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5307
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Towards Thornton
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5310
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
12th Line Summer
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5302
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 71.12 x 81.28 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Riding Past the 10th
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5290
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 25.4 x 36.83 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Riding West
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5306
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 76.2 x 106.68 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
August Sky
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5301
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 76.2 x 91.44 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Le Sud
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5291
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 30.48 x 40.64 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Joshua Memory
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5298
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 55.88 x 71.12 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
After a Sudden Shower
Artist: Robert Marchessault
ID : 5296
Description: Artist's Statement
My painting can be seen as two streams of inquiry which ultimately seek to discover the same thing. The landscape paintings, which I have been making since the mid-1970s, seek to reveal my emerging understanding of the non-duality of nature. These works have gone through a range of artistic treatments, with the 1990s seeing a focus on space, light, atmosphere and distance.
I am intrigued with the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing great spaces. Deserts, mountains, and vast open plains make me feel that some fundamental truth is revealed by this sense of dissolution into these spaces. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove nonessential visual elements. When a work is successful, it has a poetry that presents some aspect of my understanding of who I am.
The second stream of my work began in the early 1990s as a result of my Brucebo award (a Swedish Award). This opportunity to spend a summer in Gotland living and working at the William Blair Bruce estate helped me to formulate a second approach to painting.
First worked out as a series of small oil studies, I found that fields of pixelated colour dabs could combine into a colour field that did some of the things that I was also trying to coax out of my landscape paintings. The last nine years have seen me continuing to experiment with this idea. Some of these paintings have combined multiple images and colour fields. The images are carefully rendered from observation. The colour fields support the objects. Some of the most recent of these paintings have not included rendered images. These canvases are completely non-objective but are accompanied by small paintings of landscapes that are hung in relation to the colour field. (June 20, 1999)
Des mesures : 121.92 x 172.72 cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1999
Matériaux : oil on canvas
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
