Featured Show: Wetlands and Waterscapes
March 20, 2017 - April 27, 2017
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"I love drawing and painting outdoors; the feeling of being fully immersed in a scene and dealing with the elements. I learn more as I go along with the challenge of changing light and shadows and sky and cloud patterns to deal with. Another terrific reason to work on site is the people who come along and the stories they tell. Quite often these stories find their way into the final narrative of my drawing or painting…" |
Water and skies are a constant theme in the stories that unfold in my drawings and oil paintings. These are the everyday stories of the people who spend their working lives on the water and those who are drawn to the water for the pure pleasure of the experience.
My goal is to draw you into the story, to set the mood, to create depth and a larger than life illusion. The scenes tend towards panoramas and most of the settings are modern day locations that you can visit today and some harken back to a more nostalgic time in our history.
The “Wetlands and Waterscapes” drawings on exhibit at Port Moody’s Silk Art Gallery are inspired by my experience living on the south coast where the Pacific Ocean and the mighty Fraser River and its tributaries are so much a part of daily life. Most of the drawings of the wetlands, ocean, beaches, lakes, and rivers are from my travels in British Columbia with a sprinkling of drawings from as far away as the Red River in Winnipeg.
My goal is to draw you into the story, to set the mood, to create depth and a larger than life illusion. The scenes tend towards panoramas and most of the settings are modern day locations that you can visit today and some harken back to a more nostalgic time in our history.
The “Wetlands and Waterscapes” drawings on exhibit at Port Moody’s Silk Art Gallery are inspired by my experience living on the south coast where the Pacific Ocean and the mighty Fraser River and its tributaries are so much a part of daily life. Most of the drawings of the wetlands, ocean, beaches, lakes, and rivers are from my travels in British Columbia with a sprinkling of drawings from as far away as the Red River in Winnipeg.
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Brant Friesen is a traditional “Off the Easel” artist who lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Brant’s distinctly styled oil paintings and graphite drawings tell the everyday stories of people who spend their working lives on the water and the stories of those who are drawn to the water for the pure pleasure of the experience. All of Brant’s paintings and drawings start from a “Plein Air” drawing or painting.
"Wetlands and Waterscapes" features the works of Brant Friesen and Pauline Doyle. Feature exhibit at Silk Art Gallery from March 20 - April 27. |