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① Artwork:
Untitled Shuswap Lake, B.C. #1, July
This painting is part of a series meditating on the connection between the artist and his surroundings. Over a three-year span, Herald Nix took almost daily rowboat excursions onto Shuswap Lake in British Columbia to document the area. In each work, the artist mixes painterly gestures with carved lines and scraped surfaces to capture his experience of a single place through seasonal changes of light and weather. His method of repeatedly portraying the same subject matter is similar to a musical reprise in slow motion. With each new iteration, the artist is entranced and carried away by their process.
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③ Artist:
Herald Nix returns to paint the same landforms over a period of years. With each spontaneous and intimate oil panel, he reveals the shifting light and mood of different seasons and weather conditions. Nix is also an acclaimed musician who has performed throughout Canada as well as internationally.
BIO:
Herald Nix was born in 1951 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, where he stills lives. He attended the Vancouver College of Art, now Emily Carr University.
His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including: Paintings at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles, California; I’ll Go Find It at Jarvis Hall Gallery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Inaugural Show #2 at Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles, California; and Herald Nix at Atelier Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; among others.
Nix takes almost daily painting trips, either into the bush around Salmon Arm or with his rowboat onto nearby Shuswap Lake.
Part of a series, this painting mixes painterly gestures with carved lines and scraped surfaces to capture the artist's experience of a single place through seasonal changes of light and weather.More
- Framed: 14.5 x 16.5 x 2.0 in.
