Curator's Pick: Graeme Shaw
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Gust Gallery Fine Arts 112A Waterton Avenue, Waterton, Alberta TOK 2M0
Graeme Shaw, "Crypt Lake View," 2018
oil on canvas, 30" x 48"
My art involves travel- at times a lot of it. I need it to keep fresh and inspired. I do take photographs on my trips, but I find photographs only get me so far in what I do. My work is more often than not a combination of feeling and reality. The challenge for me is to see how far I can push my take on the images I capture on film or chronicle via my sketch book.I am presently sitting on a number of shots that I just took from a 5000 km. wander through BC and Alberta via motor bike. The trip included a lot of accessible places but also other places far removed from tourist crowds. It turned out to be one of the more difficult trips I have taken. It was not difficult because the riding was all that hard, but more because of the emotions it stirred - emotions and images I had not even thought off for decades. Southern Alberta and Lethbridge in particular, was where my father moved us to when I was 11. We lived there for 7 years, which took me all the way through from grade six to high school graduation and one year beyond. <more from Shaw's blog>
Graeme Shaw, "Hidden Pool," 2018
acrylic on canvas, 20" x 24"