Fine Art

ARTIST STATEMENT My passion for the wilderness areas of Canada is rooted in my early exposure to these places as a child. I grew up in a town poised on the edge of many conservation and parks areas, so access wasn’t just easy, it was an expected part of the adventure of growing up. A…

ARTIST STATEMENT Sabine Liva paints abstract portraits of a certain somewhere. Subtle, yet orderly, arranged parallel planes of imagery represent sky, water and ground. Her treatment of her subject is entirely contemporary. These are evocative atmospheric landscapes. Balanced composition, layered cloth-like textures, harmonious colours, movement grounded by the horizon, a seldom and unexpected vignette of…

ARTIST STATEMENT I will return to the summer of 1984 when the series of work, which I titled “Stylized Landscapes”, began. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art (and Design University) in 1974, I produced mostly landscape paintings in watercolour, oil and acrylic that were quite representational in nature. However, my approach changed dramatically…